‘In 20 years, every surface will harvest its own energy’
Marjan van Aubel on Solar Design, the World Expo & our upcoming Challenge
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Style and sustainability for the new normal
Environmentally friendly masks with high impact on local economic activities
New spatial strategies for museums
Design studios release guidelines to help cultural spaces reopen safely
Visual Relief By Happy Data
This week's visual relief highlights the small but mighty numbers
Estudio Guto Requena turns heartbeats into digital art
Heartbits is a new app to connect with those you miss
Marcus Lyall invites you to Scream the House Down
A socially distanced art installation to ease your frustrations
Decolonising Design
Anoushka Khandwala on what it means to decolonise design in the light of the mobilisation of the Black Lives Matter movement
Dezeen x WDCD: Urgent conversations on social justice in design
Three live talks about media power, decolonising design & gender equality
How digital arts can solve the problem of socially distanced place-making
Exploring the role that digital arts can play for organisations based on live and tangible experiences
‘Designers of the People’ help small businesses to readjust
Creatives from 18 countries dedicate part of their time to voluntarily help local businesses
Shelterbags for South Africa’s homeless
New project to help people surviving COVID-19 on the streets
Art through the screen
Online museum visits that make you see more
Designers for Designers
A digital coaching series for creatives impacted by COVID-19
A Hand Signal for Help
Online campaign to support those experiencing violence in isolation
Eating Out – In – Apart: new ways to experience food
What could social distancing rules mean for the way we cook, dine, and gather?
Can art help us navigate an infodemic?
Olafur Eliasson and Kumi Naidoo on designing trust in the media
Every empty street is a crowd against the virus
Artists use stencils and chalk to share positive, publicly useful messages about social isolation on the streets of São Paulo.
Innovative handwashing stations pop up across Africa
Creative ideas include solar-powered sinks and hands-free taps
Quarantine Sounds by Erik Kessels, Anthony Burrill & more
Creatives release albums of cityscapes, birdsong and airplane noise
SafeHandFish repurposes soy sauce bottles as hand sanitising gel containers
In response to the UN’s call for creative ideas to limit coronavirus, Japan now serves sanitizer in fish-shaped soy bottles
Designers Against Coronavirus shows the pandemic through the eyes of creatives from 44 countries
A chat with Italian studio CaroselloLab, that collects COVID-19 related artwork
Studio Precht designs a park for social distancing
‘Parc de la Distance’ aims to offer separation — and escape
Koert van Mensvoort explores ‘What will the virus teach us about life?’
Next Nature Network's creative director on what it means to be human in times of technological and ecological change