Here’s what we will be talking about at WDCD
The themes of WDCD2015: Cultural consciousness, humanity, urban issues, and the senses
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Letter from Brazil: meeting with Adélia Borges
Craft and design journalist Borges takes us to A Casa Museum for the Brazilian Object
When Hong Kong’s prosperity depended on design
Online exhibition celebrates the disappearing culture of neon signs
Césare Peeren turns waste into beauty
Superuse Studios’ head of design will present his ideas at WDCD2015
The packaging lasts as long as the product
Swedish design agency Tomorrow Machine develops short life sustainable packaging
Diébédo Francis Kéré is a man on a mission
African architect Kéré applies a hands-on approach to humanitarian projects in Burkina Faso
‘A thousand words can create six million images’
Graphic designer Alejandro Magallanes speaks at WDCD2015 about his activist posters
‘Graphic design doesn’t exist anymore’
Designers and educators discuss the new roles of designers in 'The new design landscape'
Can there be joy in Monday mornings?
IDEO seeks to bring some joy to the grimmest moment of the week
What language does smell speak?
A meeting with smell expert Sissel Tolaas in her laboratory in Berlin
Speak it out to the neighbourhood
Graphic designer gives neighbours a voice on transformation of their quarters
Shelter in a coffee cup
Comforable Exo shelter is easy and quickly installed after disaster
Culinary deviants bring all the senses into play
Bompas & Parr create immersive, flavour based experiences
The fungus eats plastic, man eats the fungus
Fungi Mutarium proposes a novel fungi food product grown on plastic waste
‘The process is the great surrender’
100 Day Project is an exercise in discipline and design thinking
‘Height can’t be the ultimate goal of a skyscraper’
Lord of Towers Ole Scheeren speaks at WDCD2015
Beat Hunger and score, score, score!
Beat the Hunger monsters and gain bowls of of rice to feed hungry kids
Growing leather as thin as a butterfly wing
WDCD2012-speaker Suzanne Lee hosts a tour through her lab at Modern Meadow
This is the hospital children want to go to
Artists transform the wards and halls of the Royal London Children's Hospital
70 design talents to watch
Wearables that encourage the elderly to have a healthier lifestyle
Finally Barcelona has got its design museum
new Design Museum glorifies Catalan and, more in general, Spanish decorative and applied arts
Follow the trash
Exhibition Metròpolis Barcelona in Design Museum Barcelona
Design fair OBJECT boards ‘SS Rotterdam‘
Work by Pleunie Buyink (legft) and Femke Woltering