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Alternatives for an alternative platform
How a detour will help WDCD Refugee Challenge finalist Reframe Refugees to reach its goal
Investigating how the future city can feed itself
IKEA’s innovation lab SPACE10 researches self-sustaining urban food production
A nice meeting over chorba and guima
WDCD Refugee Challenge finalist Eat & Meet experienced the first test dinner in Paris
African design collection for IKEA
African designers to collaborate with IKEA's in-house team during upcoming Design Indaba conference
WDCD Refugee Challenge showcased in Taipei
Refugee Challenge exhibition and WDCD goodies part of 100 Years of Dutch Design exhibition in Taiwan Design Museum
Better Shelter selected Design of the Year
Design Museum London awards top prize to IKEA Foundation’s improved shelter
Makers Unite explores expanding to food production
In collaboration with IKEA's Space10 Makers Unite investigates sustainable food production in Social Living Labs
‘We want to become the ultimate rats’
Experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun founds the University of the Underground to make social dreams come true
A card that tells refugees everything they want to know
The Welcome Card team has come a long way since the initial concept entered for the WDCD Refugee Challenge
WDCD Refugee Challenge works towards grand finale
Five finalist teams will present their business plans on 7 March in Amsterdam
Feeling the problem leads to the desire to solve it
WDCD Live São Paulo 2016 breakout session: generating deep empathy with victims of violence
Meeting with kindred spirits in São Paulo
WDCD speakers visited local studios and organizations in the wake of WDCD SP
Violence against femininity is a cultural issue
WDCD São Paulo 2016 breakout session searches for questions to address violence against women
A day of Brazilian borogodó and Dutch wit
Day 2 of What Design Can Do Live São Paulo
A forgotten story of cruelty against refugees
Australia deports refugees to quasi-prisons with no view on future
Exploding Cheetos and a burst of creativity
Day 1 of What Design Can Do São Paulo
What Design Can Do Live São Paulo has started
WDCD SP has a lucky start with pre-conference dinner at IdeaFixa
Fruit of a fresh artistic wave over Dakar
Costumes by fashion designer Selly Raby Kane accompany album launch by Ibaaku
Raising awareness for the feminine perspective
Think Olga opens the eyes in Brazil for the sexist culture
Acceptance, gender issues and partying
Paulistano rapper Rico Dalasam inaugurated queer rap scene in Brazil
Uma voz doce de São Paulo
Singer Xênia França to perform at WDCD Live São Paulo
‘Colombia has a huge refugee issue too’
WDCD SP speaker Jan Rothuizen tells about his new project, a soft atlas of Colombia
A conference that brings a chance for change and growth
Director Bebel Abreu on the reasons why everyone should attend WDCD Live São Paulo