Kaori Akiyama & Shubhi Sachan on everyday materialities
6 questions with the founders of Studio Bycolor & Material Library of India
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‘It feels like closing a loop’
Past winners Emy Bensdorp & Loreta Castro on the Redesign Everything Challenge
Fostering youth participation with Next Gen Design
Five European design platforms launch ambitious new collaboration
Here they are — 557 ideas to redesign everything
Materials, community & nature take centre stage in this year’s challenge
Announcing the Redesign Everything Talks
A new circular design event series with Amsterdam’s Pakhuis de Zwijger
3 creative activists speak out on the need for redesign
Watch our new video series with Borre Akkersdijk, Paola Antonelli & Amanda Costa
Open call: How can social designers spark cultural participation for climate awareness?
Inspiring climate awareness community projects
What if the future could be better than the past?
5 design visions to restore and reimagine
Putting frontline communities first
5 impactful ways to reframe and reconnect
Building better with less
5 inspiring initiatives to reduce and refuse
7 resources to level up your circular design game
Podcasts, books and classes to inspire design for social and climate justice
Redesigning the end of the line
5 compelling cases for recycle and repair
Open Call: What if we could redesign everything?
Introducing the Redesign Everything Challenge by WDCD and the IKEA Foundation
Dreaming Big With Rethread Africa
Catching up with MICC winner Noreen Mwancha and mentor Lawrence Thiga
The Purposeful Gift Guide
12 gift ideas for the conscious creative
‘With Alterist, we’re really going for scalability’
Catching up with MICC winner Hannah Standen and mentor Puck Middelkoop
Fashion that connects past, present and future
Nina Zulian on Indigenous heritage and contemporary fashion design
When I am gone, make a museum of me
Teresa Carvalheira on the practice of heirlooming
Communicating through roots
Studio Ne+ on designing with ancient Egyptian crafts and heritage
Celebrating 10 circular design pioneers with Secrid
Highlights from our visit to Dutch Design Week 2023
The Colonial History of Branding
Najite Phoenix on the harmful legacies that still shape the industry today
Rethinking Human Materials
Zsofia Kollar on the cultural legacy & creative potential of human hair
Four takeaways from our fourth edition in Mexico City
Relive key moments from WDCD Mexico GNP 2023
Welcome to a world of space farmers
New exhibition by Next Nature explores the future of food and agriculture