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Educating a conscious and active next generation
WDCD Live São Paulo takes a look at education as an important topic for climate action

‘Climate action needs the voice of women’
UN’s Patricia Espinosa aims to raise the voice of women proposing solutions to environmental problems

‘We can create a vision of how we can transform the world’
WDCD Live São Paulo speaker Babette Porcelijn wants to curb our hidden impact on the planet

CODA Award for Guto Requena’s Dancing Pavilion
Interactive façade of dance club reflects the mood of the dancing crowd

Inscrições de 70 países, de muitas partes do mundo
“O nível dos inscritos é bem alto”

“Palestrante do wdcd vai a onu”
A cicloativista Aline Cavalcante fala sobre seu encontro com a secretária executiva da Divisão das Nações Unidas sobre Mudanças Climáticas (UNFCCC) no WDCD Live Amsterdam.

WORKSHOP DE ARQUITETURA FLUTUANTE COM FOCO NAS MUDANÇAS CLIMÁTICAS
Workshop de 8 dias na floresta brasileira pretende gerar ideias para o WDCD Climate Action Challenge

Fruit of a fresh artistic wave over Dakar
Costumes by fashion designer Selly Raby Kane accompany album launch by Ibaaku

Twelve designers declare their love for paper
The Book of 12 discusses paper in the digital age with 12 top designers including WDCD speaker Elaine Ramos

WDCD ANUNCIA UM NOVO TEMA DE PESQUISA: VIOLÊNCIA CONTRA A MULHER
Quatro sessões do WDCD Live São Paulo 2016 exploram a possibilidade que o design tem de abordar o tema.

A good designer works with nature
Architect Marko Brajovic wants his trade to develop a positive relationship with the environment

‘Outstanding creativity can’t do without failure’
Erik Kessels, founder of KesselsKramer, will talk about ‘Failed It!’ at WDCD Live São Paulo

‘Gastronomy should be inclusive, not exclusive’
WDCD Live São Paulo presents one of the most praised chefs of Brazil: Rodrigo Oliveira

Fabio Lopez tackles serious issues, one pictogram at a time
The Brazilian designer is the latest addition to the WDCD São Paulo programme

Brazilian cuisine takes to the skies
Chef Rodrigo Oliveira enters the universe of aviation

Letter from Brazil: meeting with Adélia Borges
Craft and design journalist Borges takes us to A Casa Museum for the Brazilian Object