Social Furniture to stimulate contact and cooperation
Vienna design agency makes easy-to-make furniture designs available for everyone
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Four design managers on the power of design for brands
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2016 report: What Design Can Do for Brands & Business breakout
In search of values that make a design toolkit
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2016 Report: What Design Can Do for Africa breakout
A nice variety of stories on music and design
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2016 report: What Design Can Do for Music breakout 2
Forward-looking action and unrestrained creativity
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2016 report: What Africa Can Do for Europe theme
Chicoco Radio gives a voice to the marginalized
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2016 report: What Design Can Do for Port Harcourt breakout
Impact requires a simple idea and a little magic
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2016 report: What Ideas Can Do for Impact breakout
Back in kindergarten for the music
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2016 report: What Design Can Do for Music breakout 1
‘Harnessing the power of culture is part of the solution’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2016 report: What Design Can Do for Refugees
Just look at that!
A first visual impression of WDCD Live 2016
And the winners are…
Here are the five finalists of the WDCD Refugee Challenge
It’s a Rap! Headlines in Rhymes
Senegalese rappers present weekly newsflash Le Journal Rappé
Zaaf, a life in a bag
Young Ethiopian woman entrepreneur conquers the world with leather handbags
What Africa Can Do for Europe
New book to be launched at WDCD Live
Saving Ethiopian handloom weaving from extinction
International design brands revive traditional weaving in Ethiopia
A wondrous blend of sights and sounds
Nigerian artist Helen Isibor-Epega stages world's first opera in pidgin
Speakers, breakouts, exhibitions, awards, concerts and a party
WDCD Live 2016 is set to make history...again
‘We’re designing new ways of living and interacting’
WDCD Refugee Challenge nominees react on selection of their projects
Syrian musicians reunite in Amsterdam
Orchestra of Syrian Musicians joined by Damon Albran, Paul Weller and great Arabic and African artists
‘Designers can offer refugees new perspective’
Arabist and author Petra Stienen looks ahead at judging the WDCD Refugee Challenge nominations
Smart services, less aesthetics
‘A wealth of smart services and less aesthetic product design,’ says challenge leader Dagan Cohen overviewing the shortlist of the WDCD Refugee Challenge that has been established last Friday by the committee of experts.
A chance of one in five
25 projects on the shortlist of WDCD Refugee Challenge
‘A design challenge can drive systemic change’
Fairphone founder and WDCD Refugee Challenge jury member Bas van Abel shares his expectations
Another two artists to stir things up
Torre Florim, lead singer of De Staat and Senegalese multidisciplinary artist Ibaaku join WDCD Live