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Wekesa Zablon on his hyper-local approach to circularity

No Waste Challenge in Nairobi: Tackling mobility, food and community

  • No Waste Challenge
  • Natasha Berting
  • 08 Apr 2021

Food waste, reimagined

Foodvalley NL highlights six circular initiatives changing the way we eat and farm

  • No Waste Challenge
  • Natasha Berting
  • 07 Apr 2021

Taina Campos & Olga Rodríguez: making objects and queering spaces

Coolhuntermx celebrates women in Mexico's creative industries for #IWD2021

  • Social Justice
  • What Design Can Do
  • 30 Mar 2021

Six innovations taking on the plastic waste crisis

WWF highlights bold solutions to achieve no plastic in nature by 2030

  • No Waste Challenge
  • Natasha Berting
  • 24 Mar 2021

Protest Posters for the Global Climate Strike

This week's visual relief features artists Anisa Makhoul, Karabo Poppy & more

  • Graphic Design
  • Daphne Schmidt
  • 18 Mar 2021

‘Climate change is the most challenging brief I’ve worked on’

Naresh Ramchandani on creativity, sustainability & designing out waste

  • Interview
  • Natasha Berting
  • 16 Mar 2021

Haven’t we all been bad designers?

New campaign shares calls to action by Bruce Mau, Selly Raby Kane & more

  • No Waste Challenge
  • What Design Can Do
  • 11 Mar 2021

In Indian society, repair is a dying skill

No Waste Challenge in Delhi: On frugality, sharing and craftsmanship

  • No Waste Challenge
  • What Design Can Do
  • 09 Mar 2021

Clayre Coello & Carmen Serratos: weaving networks between women 

Coolhuntermx celebrates women in Mexico's creative industries for #IWD2021

  • Social Justice
  • What Design Can Do
  • 08 Mar 2021

21 creatives offer up 21 words of inspiration

This week's visual relief is a series of punchy, typographic pick-me-ups

  • Graphic Design
  • Daphne Schmidt
  • 23 Feb 2021

The world’s first 3D printed earthen house

TECLA brings together ancient materials and new technology

  • Architecture
  • Natasha Berting
  • 16 Feb 2021

Gjenge bricks are cheap, colourful & stronger than concrete

Meet the inventor making building blocks out of Nairobi’s plastic waste

  • No Waste Challenge
  • Natasha Berting
  • 10 Feb 2021

The link between waste & climate change, explained

Breaking down the mother of all environmental problems

  • No Waste Challenge
  • What Design Can Do
  • 04 Feb 2021

A monkey house in between trees

Marko Brajovic completes his latest structure in the forests of Paraty, Brazil

  • Architecture
  • Natasha Berting
  • 03 Feb 2021

Why waste is a socio-political issue

Making sense of the same storm, from very different boats

  • No Waste Challenge
  • What Design Can Do
  • 27 Jan 2021

Light recipes for the farm of the future

Daan Roosegaarde's latest artwork highlights the value of agriculture

  • Technology
  • Natasha Berting
  • 22 Jan 2021

How bad design is driving the ‘take-make-waste’ economy

A closer look at all the ways that we can do better

  • No Waste Challenge
  • What Design Can Do
  • 19 Jan 2021

The No Waste Challenge is now open for submissions!

WDCD & the IKEA Foundation call for radical, design-driven solutions to waste

  • No Waste Challenge
  • What Design Can Do
  • 10 Jan 2021

Looking back at the best of Design in Times of Corona

Our top stories of the year, as picked by our readers and editors

  • Design in times of corona
  • What Design Can Do
  • 24 Dec 2020

A mobile game that plants real trees

Studio Drift on reconnecting with nature through Birthplace, the game

  • Interview
  • Natasha Berting
  • 17 Dec 2020

‘All my work has been cancelled. What now?’

Looking back at Designers for Designers, a coaching series for surviving the pandemic

  • Creative Leadership
  • What Design Can Do
  • 10 Dec 2020

Harvesting clean energy, using rotten veg

Innovative new material could turn entire buildings into vertical solar farms

  • Energy
  • Natasha Berting
  • 01 Dec 2020

Buy Nothing on Black Friday 

And other ways to curb consumption this holiday season

  • Sustainability
  • What Design Can Do
  • 26 Nov 2020

How New York City’s Armour is Being Transformed into Art

The Plywood Protection Project finds new use for boarded-up storefronts

  • Art
  • Natasha Berting
  • 19 Nov 2020

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