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Branding Toolkit helps social entrepreneurs
Why don’t great ideas for social or environmental impact always get the attention they deserve, designer…
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Frugal Design Thinking
May 24 | Design with the endless possibilities of simplicity for broader social impact.
Hosted by Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa & Philips Design
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‘To us, design means action’
Richard van der Laken, creative director of What Design Can Do, looks back on the platform’s…
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‘Design education is about critical thinking and experimentation’
After nearly a decade leading Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York,…
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How can design combat the sexual exploitation of children? Part 1
May 24 | The What Design Can Do Challenge to combat sexual exploitation of children.
Hosted by What Design Can Do & Public Prosecutor’s Office
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De Designpolitie
De Designpolitie (The Design Police) is a graphic design agency based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, founded in…
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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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Designers must educate their clients on sustainability
Brands are understanding that sustainability is not a fad, but a real necessity, and that they…
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‘We are on track to become a healthy social enterprise’
While all our focus is on climate change these days, we haven’t forgot our five finalists…
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Designing Activism
Designing Activism was a workshop moderated by Emilie Tromp and included presentations by Tijmen Swaalf (Bits…
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‘No doubt that we need design to solve mankind’s problems’
The man in yellow has turned red. What Design Can Do’s founder and creative director Richard…
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How design can help address violence against women
Design research company STBY teams up with WDCD to research the theme of ‘violence against women’.…
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‘This was such a wonderful social experience’
It has been a while since we announced the five winners of the WDCD Refugee Challenge,…
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37 design visions on utopia
While the Lebanese contribution to the first London Design Biennale was awarded the medal for best…
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Social Furniture to stimulate contact and cooperation
Originating from reflections on the spatial and social circumstances of basic care provisions for refugees, Austrian…
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In search of values that make a design toolkit
In collaboration with the Design Hub in Kampala (Uganda) the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA)…
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‘We’re designing new ways of living and interacting’
‘The definition of design is broadening as we know it – it’s grown from something literal…
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‘Designers can offer refugees new perspective’
Petra Stienen, arabist and author, former diplomat in the Middle East, joins the international jury of…
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‘A design challenge can drive systemic change’
It’s done, the public vote for the WDCD Refugee Challenge has ended. Today the committee of…
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What Design Can Do against violence taboos
What Design Can Do against taboos around violence. That’s the key question in a student project…
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‘As designers we can’t just stand by and watch’
‘What we hope to achieve is an improvement, however small, to the lives of millions of…
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Design as a tool for seduction
You may have noticed that we renewed our site (still working on it!) and we have…
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Researching the designer’s impact
‘Fortunately, we are beginning to see a great deal of adaptation of human-centered methods into political…
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Cross media social journalism
Next week Dutch journalism production company Prospektor will launch an interactive transmedia project entitled ‘De Asielzoekmachine’ (The…