5 great podcasts on the transformative power of design
Our top picks of recent releases by Grant Gibson, Nairobi Design Week & more
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The creative entrepreneur’s guide to WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
Plastic recycling in the Sahara desert
Precious Plastic tackles waste in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps
SPACE10 POPS UP IN MEXICO CITY
A two-week festival exploring what good design is in today’s climate
Circular Solutions: a two part docu-series
A showcase of 4 circular Brazilian & Dutch designers
Making, dreaming and healing in circles
Four must-see designs from The Circle Exhibition
5 ways to embed circularity into your creative startup
An interview with Manon Klein from Impact Hub Amsterdam
How design took shape in 2021
Our top stories of the year, as picked by our readers and editors
Bricks glazed with iron and steel
StoneCycling & Studio Mixtura bring out six new waste-based glazes
Never Waste A Good Crisis
New book by WDCD presents 31 brilliant ideas for a circular future
Aireal is a library of carbon negative materials
New database explores foams, fibers and plastics that capture CO2
Four Trends Shaping Circular Design Today
Less plastic, more people power + other big ideas from the No Waste Challenge
Kiji Arita revives forgotten ceramics in Japan
Sander Wassink & Yoriko Ishizawa discuss their latest collaboration
Gjenge bricks are cheap, colourful & stronger than concrete
Meet the inventor making building blocks out of Nairobi’s plastic waste
Harvesting clean energy, using rotten veg
Innovative new material could turn entire buildings into vertical solar farms
A Whole World Beyond Plastic
Dave Hakkens' latest series is all about biodegradable materials
Do we dare imagine a city without waste?
An animated call to action featuring designer Bruce Mau
What design does for the plastic problem
Fossil fuel industry investments set to rise plastics production by 40% in next decade
African design collection for IKEA
African designers to collaborate with IKEA's in-house team during upcoming Design Indaba conference
No modular phone from Google
Google ends Project Ara while modular phone was close to finish
A marriage between Dutch design and Rwandan craftsmanship
Dutch-African fashion label Afriek works on the basis mutual respect and equality
The lab that turns waste into business
Rotterdam steps into the blue economy with 'BlueCity010'