Three days of inspiration and creativity for social, environmental and political change

What Design Can Do arrives for the first time in Mexico City, from May 6 to 8, 2019

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• What Design Can Do
• 20 Feb 2019

Our top stories of 2018

The best of the WDCD blog, as picked by our readers and editors

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• Natasha Berting
• 20 Dec 2018

Plastic cups are solid gold

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Towards a more circular solution for serving drinks at events

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• What Design Can Do
• 08 Jun 2018

Establish change from within

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Think Different And Just Do It  

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• What Design Can Do
• 08 Jun 2018

‘But I already have green energy, right?’

WDCD Live Amsterdam report: Workshop It’s my CO(2)

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• What Design Can Do
• 07 Jun 2018

Better local understanding of a global problem

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Clean Energy Design Jam

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• 07 Jun 2018

10 guidelines to design for a better planet

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Planet-centric digital design

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• What Design Can Do
• 06 Jun 2018

Visions on how circularity can rebrand cities

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Designing a (Circular) Leidse Square

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• What Design Can Do
• 06 Jun 2018

Can the health system support the health care needs?

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Resetting Your Health Care Mindset

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• What Design Can Do
• 06 Jun 2018

60 minutes to save the world

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Reframing the Anthropocene

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• Billy Nolan
• 06 Jun 2018

How to make teenagers care about sustainability?

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Transformative Experience Design 

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• Bas van Lier
• 05 Jun 2018

To see is to understand white privilege

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 Report: Workshop The Colour White

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• What Design Can Do
• 05 Jun 2018

‘We need solutions that help us become cyclists’

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Freitag. Creating guiding principles for lasting impact

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• Natasha Berting
• 04 Jun 2018

Inclusive design twisted on its head

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop exclusive design challenge

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• Natasha Berting
• 04 Jun 2018

How will the artificial womb affect society?

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Reprodutopia

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• What Design Can Do
• 04 Jun 2018

Testing virtual intoxication and water cocktails

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Festivals as testing grounds

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• What Design Can Do
• 01 Jun 2018

‘What conversation do we want with algorithms?’

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Constructive Digital Innovation

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• What Design Can Do
• 01 Jun 2018

Chef’s stories over cocopache on indian cress

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop Mister Kitchen meets Elena Reygadas

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• What Design Can Do
• 31 May 2018

‘Design is the heart and imagination that changes things’

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Main stage, Day 2

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• Billy Nolan
• 30 May 2018

Five reasons to attend WDCD Live Amsterdam

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• What Design Can Do
• 25 Apr 2018

Getting intimate with technology

Reprodutopia workshop at WDCD Live investigates the future of making babies, relationships and intimacy

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• 03 Apr 2018

The fabric that turned Freitag into a brand

With the iconic bags now comes truly sustainable clothing from Freitag

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• What Design Can Do
• 09 Mar 2018

Dave Hakkens’ casual approach to moving communities

How Precious Plastic initiator Dave Hakkens attracts tens of thousands to plastic recycling

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• What Design Can Do
• 06 Mar 2018

WDCD Live: The fuel, the knowledge and the network

WDCD Live Amsterdam (24 & 25 May 2018) aims to connect designers, NGO's and businesses

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• Bas van Lier
• 28 Feb 2018