Bike sharing service will turn São Paulo Yellow
WDCD Clean Energy Challenge local stories: Letter from Brazil
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Our top stories of 2018
The best of the WDCD blog, as picked by our readers and editors
In search of truth, impact and motivation
Clean Energy Challenge reviewers share their personal points of interest
Clean Energy Challenge receives over 450 entries
Selection committees in all five cities now start reviewing the submissions
Don’t let these 5 excuses stop you from joining the challenge
There is no reason why you shouldn’t give the Clean Energy Challenge your best shot
Cycling activist Aline Cavalcante in Top 5 of Urban Visionaries
WDCD-alumnus Cavalcante heralded for her persistence in claiming cyclist rights
How to make a slow city faster and cleaner?
Clean Energy Challenge: redesigning transportation in São Paulo
‘Our research helps designers to excel’
STBY elaborates on the research behind the WDCD Clean Energy Challenge
‘Our aim is to empower design communities worldwide’
WDCD Clean Energy Challenge puts focus on five world cities
What Design Does To Counter Violence Against Women
1 in 3 women experience violence in their lifetime; what do designers do to end it?
Waste of the world
Kadir van Lohuizen’s waste project now on view in Amsterdam
Better local understanding of a global problem
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Clean Energy Design Jam
‘Design is the heart and imagination that changes things’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Main stage, Day 2
‘We must rethink the way we design our world’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Main stage, Day 1
‘Design é o coração e a imaginação que muda coisas’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: palco principal, dia 2
‘Nós precisamos repensar a forma que projetamos o nosso mundo’
WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: palco principal, dia 1
WDCD launches third annual event in Mexico City
WDCD teams up with the Reinventing Mexico Foundation to present WDCD Mexico City in May 2019
‘The climate movement can really use some excitability’
WDCD and IKEA Foundation reflect on their collaboration
‘To us, design means action’
Interview with Richard van der Laken, co-founder and creative director of What Design Can Do
‘We must heal our cities with technology and love’
Q&A with WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 speaker Guto Requena