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Dave Hakkens’ casual approach to moving communities

A year ago Dave Hakkens started his series of monthly video updates. He introduced the first…

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Anticipating the future at Dutch Design Week 2022

Creatives, it’s that time of the year again. The biggest design event in the Netherlands is…

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Plastic recycling in the Sahara desert

How can refugees empower themselves with limited resources? Precious Plastic‘s latest project in partnership with UNHCR…

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A Whole World Beyond Plastic

Since launching Precious Plastic in 2013, product designer Dave Hakkens has become the spearhead of a…

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STUDENTS AGAINST WASTE

This week, What Design Can Do will host the No Waste Student Lab at innovation hub…

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‘We must rethink the way we design our world’

For its eighth edition WDCD returned to the beautiful and intimate setting of Amsterdam’s main theatre…

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‘Nós precisamos repensar a forma que projetamos o nosso mundo’

Para a sua oitava edição, o WDCD voltou para o lindo e íntimo ambiente do principal…

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Five reasons to attend WDCD Live Amsterdam

If this year’s line-up of speakers – including Dave Hakkens, Joel Towers, Daniel Freitag, Guto Requena…

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WDCD Live: The fuel, the knowledge and the network

In a new set up, WDCD Live Amsterdam on 24 & 25 May 2018 will focus…

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What design does for the plastic problem

Alarming news in The Guardian: more than 180 billion dollars invested by fossil fuel companies in…

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Precious Plastic takes the next step

Dave Hakkens has been doing great things since starting his Precious Plastic project four years ago,…

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No modular phone from Google

Only four months ago Google predicted to have their modular phone completely ready by 2017, and…

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Mexican help for Precious Plastic

If anyone’s heart is in the right place, it is Alejandro Luna’s. Luna is a young…

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The future of mobile is modular

Fairphone 2 is here. After having sold 60.000 Fairphones of the first edition, Fairphone, the company…

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As the year went by

How fast things can change. Just over a year ago Dave Hakkens was a graduate student…

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Letter from Cape Town 1: Homophobia Unmasked

Can you heal the wounds of apartheid with a design conference? Last week’s Design Indaba event…

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How 3D printing comes to the rescue

MGA, a German network of companies, institutions and research institutes that pushes 3D-printed applications for professional…

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