‘If you want to go far, move together’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Climate Action Challenge Demo Day
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‘We must rethink the way we design our world’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Main stage, Day 1
Re-imagining African identity
Q&A with WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 speaker Sunny Dolat
‘To us, design means action’
Interview with Richard van der Laken, co-founder and creative director of What Design Can Do
The voice of the misrepresented
WDCD 2018 speaker Ahmed Shihab-Eldin on what drives him as a journalist
‘We must heal our cities with technology and love’
Q&A with WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 speaker Guto Requena
‘Design education is about critical thinking and experimentation’
Joel Towers, parting Executive Dean of Parsons School of Design, focused new curriculum on sustainable development and social engagement
Sunny Bergman makes us face our prejudices
Filmmaker and activist Sunny Bergman takes action as a consequence of her work
Better than meat
Vegetarian Butcher Jaap Korteweg links systemic change to economic success
‘No doubt that we need design to solve mankind’s problems’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2017 marked the kick-off for a two-year exploration of the topic of climate action.
Learn from floating plants in the Amazon
Victor Affarosão Paulo based architect and WDCD speaker Marko Brajovic leads biomimicry workshop in the Amazon
Find inspiration in the marshes of Chibayish and the magic of feathers
Athenaeum recommends #1: Three magazines on rural life and nature
‘If things are bad, that’s good’
‘A terrible situation is a great opportunity to use design thinking,’ says Bruce Mau
Another two artists to stir things up
Torre Florim, lead singer of De Staat and Senegalese multidisciplinary artist Ibaaku join WDCD Live
Beyoncé in full SRK
Spotted on the streets of NY
Silver Lion for Kunlé Adeyemi
Venice Architecture Biennale issues award for promising young participant to designer of Makoko Floating School
In support of marginalized urban communities
Collaborative Media Advocacy Platform (CMAP) helps disadvantaged communities to shape their city
Futuristic visions, fantasies and concepts
Visual artist Floris Kaayk shares his views on the future at WDCD Live Amsterdam
Linking rich musical traditions to the future
Officerfishdumplings to present REMIX ←→ CULTURE at WDCD Live Amsterdam 2016
‘It’s time to bring change into the stories told’
Senegalese fashion designer Selly Raby Kane takes the stage at WDCD Live Amsterdam
Light-and-sound virtuoso Marcus Lyall on stage at WDCD
Designer of live shows for U2, The Rolling Stones, The Chemical Brothers and Oasis
Peter Saville on stage at WDCD Live Amsterdam
Closer - Joy Division (Factory, 1980) and Power, Corruption & Lies - New Order (Factory, 1983)Founder and art director of the legendary independent UK label Factory Records
‘We need to harness unique African talent’
Rwandan architect Christian Benimana is setting up the first African Design Center
Design as a tool for seduction
Nynke TrompSpeaker announcement: Nynke Tromp, assistant professor Social Design & Behaviour Change