Future-proof farms & a rental revolution
Four big trends from the Make it Circular Challenge entries
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What Design Can Do receives grant from Dutch Postcode Lottery
Good news for the planet – funding to support the power of design in climate action
Make it Circular Challenge receives over 650 entries
A roadmap for changing the way we build, eat, wear, package and buy
Hate it, Change it, Make it Circular
WDCD launches new video campaign featuring Bas van Abel, Carla Fernandez and more
‘Climate action requires extraordinary collaboration’
The Creative Climate Collective on what they learned at COP27
Making nothing new
A guide to designing with the materials & resources we already have
Circular lessons from nature
Bringing about a more-than-human approach to design
Goodbye quick fixes, hello long-term solutions
How to design things that people can love forever
It’s time to build a circular society — one great idea at a time
Introducing the Make it Circular Challenge by WDCD and the IKEA Foundation
From earthly electronics to a room full of carbon tiles
See the latest products & prototypes from the winners of the No Waste Challenge
‘The next big thing will be a lot of small things’
Breakout session report: Circular Design Jam & Pitch Podium
Designing under the influence
Breakout session report: Decolonising Design & Gender, Design and Power
How to use logic (and make magic) as a creative
Breakout session report: Impact of Creativity & Creative Leadership
A festival dedicated to the New European Bauhaus
Four-day event celebrates Europe’s most beautiful, sustainable and inclusive projects
Hope, resilience & people power at WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
Highlights from our sold-out tenth edition in Amsterdam
‘Graphic design can change how one sees the world’
Eddie Opara to speak at WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
How to live—and build—in symbiosis with nature
Julia Watson to speak at WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
Boost your creativity and deepen your activism
The changemaker’s guide to WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
Ready to take your startup to the next level?
The creative entrepreneur’s guide to WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
Your Summer Reading List by WDCD 2022
5 radical books to reframe your perspective
Cinema, and all the things climate can’t change
Josh Fox to speak at WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
Fearless fashion on every and any gender
Adebayo Oke-Lawal to speak at WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
On war, peace and the architecture of belonging
Marwa Al-Sabouni to speak at WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
WDCD Live returns to Amsterdam on 3 June 2022
A one-day festival at the intersection of design, climate action & social justice