Mexican help for Precious Plastic
Mexican machine builder volunarily travels to the Netherlands to help out Dave Hakkens
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INDEX: Award for The Ocean Cleanup
21-year-old Boyan Slat receives €100.000 for his endeavor to clean up the plastic soup
‘Design is like a potent seed that needs to be nurtured’
In memory of professor M P Ranjan
After a busy and tantalizing year we take a summer break
See you in september!
Humanitarian aid: 82M people in need
Impressively designed message from UNOCHA calls for $15bn in funding
To the rescue of African vernacular architecture
Architect Jon Sojkowski opened a database to document African traditional architecture
No more need for buttons and switches
Project Soli uses radar technology for interaction with devices
Healthy building syndrome for Medibank
Collaborative design process leads to a health encouraging building
Crossing water and printing boundaries
Joris Laarman Lab announces in-stiu 3D printing of steel bridge in Amsterdam
The future of mobile is modular
Dutch designers lead the way in modular revolution
More big companies among INDEX: Award finalists
Nobel prize for design draws 1,123 nominations from 73 countries
The news as if you were there
Immersive journalism uses virtual reality to let people experience news events
When vegetables start to talk
Vegetables tell their own story in Japanese supermarket
Isolated children in hospital want to play too
KonneKt lets isolated children in hospital play with their peers
A lot of bang with a bing
WDCD2015 / Short report of the hilarious breakout with Sam Bompas on ether
‘The fear of being naive is completely overvalued’
WDCD2015 / VBAT Meet Market with Stefan Sagmeister talking about Urban Issues and other things
Happiness is in the senses
WDCD2015 / Report part 4: What Design Can Do for the Senses
‘In the city we need design to help us out’
WDCD2015 / Report part 3: What Design Can Do for Urban Issues
‘Designers can inhabit people’s minds with images’
WDCD2015 / Report part 2: What Design Can Do for Cultural Consciousness
‘Designer must live the context he is designing for’
WDCD2015 / Report part 1: What Design Can Do for Humanity
‘Designer’s influence calls for a moral code’
WDCD2015 / Design critic Jeroen Junte launches Designer’s Oath at WDCD
‘Design really can make a difference’
WDCD2015 / Two days on the impact of design
Heavenly soup and God in a punch bowl
WDCD2015 / Joint event WDCD and Stedelijk Museum brings Amazon to Amsterdam
Five years, one book, 31 ideas
WDCD2015 / Book to celebrate the best of five years of WDCD