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WDCD2015 / Two days on the impact of design
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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
WDCD announces international design challenge
WDCD2015 / Celebrating the fifth edition of WDCD
‘Get rich at heart, or die trying’
WDCD2015 / Interview with co-founder and director Richard van der Laken on five years of WDCD
Design like you give a damn
WDCD2015 / A call to designers: help refugees, do something
Brian Roy to train We Are Here FC
Football team of rejected asylum seekers leads the way in design project
A film-filled weekend
Don't forget: What Film Can Do!, two days of films on the impact of design
Kill flies with Al Gore
Nothing brings out a designer’s humour quite like the fine art of fly swatting
Eat Shit and be most influential
Fast Company reckons eating designer Marije Vogelzang among most influential creative
Blue waves over Amsterdam
Artwork Waterlicht by Daan Roosegaarde visualizes Dutch vulnerability for water
‘With numerical imagery we’d have complete power’
Thomas Knoll recalls the birth of Adobe’s Photoshop 25 years ago
Shape-changing desk thinks with you
MIT graduate and researcher Viirj Kan developed the adaptive desk TRANSFORM
Rabbit on the run
New video by Rogier Wieland for Moleskine Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Limited Edition Collection
Ugly houses become cultural heritage
Belgian Hannes Coudenys celebrates the Belgian architectural freedom
Space with the music
International Space Orchestra‘s record reached space
A tiny home can be a castle
Tiny house movement gained momentum after financial crisis
Amsterdam turns yellow and red
Less than three weeks to go and What Design Can Do takes over the city
Gimme shelter
Design the swiftest way to get help to disaster victims
Life after Snowden: stop sharing, start caring
Crypto Design Challenge aims to deploy design to make data intelligible
‘Some call it resilience, I call it common sense’
Cameron Sinclair speaks out on what should be done in Nepal
Reimagining Osu Night Market in Accra
Ghana Design Network to host a breakout session at WDCD
Nothing stinks, only thinking makes it so
WDCD2015 speaker Sissel Tolaas makes us aware of our most sophisticated tool
Refugees deserve better education
OpenIDEO's Refugee Education Challenge seeks education solutions for refugees