Cas Holman, Gabriel Fontana & more on the power of play
Catch these creatives live at WDCDMXGNP 2024
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How to leverage the power of the collective
Breakout session report: Memberful Design with Momkai
How can A.I. be more ethical, playful and gracious?
Breakout session report: A.I. and Designers
What constitutes ‘better’ design today?
Three leading strategists share the lessons they’ve learned at Secrid
Calling for rebellion at WDCD Live Amsterdam 2024
Highlights from our dynamic twelfth edition in Amsterdam
How FREITAG and Secrid stay ahead of the curve
Daniel Freitag and René van Geer on 30 years of sustainable design
How creative storytelling and fundraising go hand-in-hand
Talking shop with Sunny Dolat and Kigge Hvid
Kaori Akiyama & Shubhi Sachan on everyday materialities
6 questions with the founders of Studio Bycolor & Material Library of India
‘It feels like closing a loop’
Past winners Emy Bensdorp & Loreta Castro on the Redesign Everything Challenge
What if the future could be better than the past?
5 design visions to restore and reimagine
Putting frontline communities first
5 impactful ways to reframe and reconnect
Building better with less
5 inspiring initiatives to reduce and refuse
Redesigning the end of the line
5 compelling cases for recycle and repair
Celebrating 10 circular design pioneers with Secrid
Highlights from our visit to Dutch Design Week 2023
Welcome to a world of space farmers
New exhibition by Next Nature explores the future of food and agriculture
‘Memberful design is about creating a sense of belonging’
Harald Dunnink on cultivating calm, unbreaking news and starting fires
Co-creating possible futures in the Amazon
Refik Anadol unveils new collaboration with the Yawanawá people of Brazil
How to become a circular economy provocateur
Dr. Leyla Acaroglu on using design as a ‘positively disruptive force’
Farmers and creatives meet at Juntos Farm
A community space for regenerative agriculture
‘We’re seeing a true shift in business-as-usual’
Corinne Gray on the art of disruption & the future of entrepreneurship
Knitting plastic waste with robots
The New Raw launches new collection of playful upcycled benches
Too much clothing, not enough justice
Stop Waste Colonialism is the latest project from The Or Foundation
‘We can use digital technologies to stimulate empathy’
Guto Requena on love, urban design and Queer Eye Brazil
3 digital storytellers tackling waste in Africa
Imagining different worlds through immersive games and films