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Harvesting clean energy, using rotten veg

Innovative new material could turn entire buildings into vertical solar farms

  • Energy
  • Natasha Berting
  • 01 Dec 2020

Buy Nothing on Black Friday 

And other ways to curb consumption this holiday season

  • Sustainability
  • What Design Can Do
  • 26 Nov 2020
Beyond Plastic Bowls

A Whole World Beyond Plastic

Dave Hakkens' latest series is all about biodegradable materials

  • Sustainability
  • Natasha Berting
  • 07 Oct 2020

Do we dare imagine a city without waste?

An animated call to action featuring designer Bruce Mau

  • Circular Economy
  • Natasha Berting
  • 29 Sep 2020

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A SUSTAINABLE DESIGNER TODAY?

De-tangling the web the creative industry spins.

  • Radical Collaboration labs
  • Edith Ault
  • 21 Nov 2019

Have your doughnut and eat it too

Digesting Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics

  • Radical Collaboration labs
  • Edith Ault
  • 27 Jun 2019

What design does for the plastic problem

Fossil fuel industry investments set to rise plastics production by 40% in next decade

  • Circular Economy
  • Bas van Lier
  • 10 Jan 2018

‘We can create a vision of how we can transform the world’

WDCD Live São Paulo speaker Babette Porcelijn wants to curb our hidden impact on the planet

  • Climate Action
  • Bas van Lier
  • 25 Oct 2017

African design collection for IKEA

African designers to collaborate with IKEA's in-house team during upcoming Design Indaba conference

  • Circular Economy
  • Bas van Lier
  • 10 Feb 2017

No modular phone from Google

Google ends Project Ara while modular phone was close to finish

  • Circular Economy
  • Bas van Lier
  • 13 Sep 2016

A look inside WeTransfer’s headquarters

Design Week visited WDCD-partner WeTransfer that is on the brink of expansion

  • Circular Economy
  • Bas van Lier
  • 19 Aug 2016

A marriage between Dutch design and Rwandan craftsmanship

Dutch-African fashion label Afriek works on the basis mutual respect and equality

  • Circular Economy
  • pepijn
  • 28 Apr 2016

‘My Africa Is’ tells the real story

Documentary series follows African change-makers

  • Circular Economy
  • pepijn
  • 22 Apr 2016

A global marketplace for local jewelry makers

Soko turns the mobile phone into a tool for trade for local artisans

  • Circular Economy
  • pepijn
  • 01 Apr 2016

The lab that turns waste into business

Rotterdam steps into the blue economy with 'BlueCity010'

  • Circular Economy
  • Natasha Berting
  • 23 Oct 2015

As the year went by

The original Phonebloks models, a working prototype of a modular phone, will be presented at the Project Ara Developers Conference

  • Circular Economy
  • Bas van Lier
  • 05 Jan 2015

Data visualization as a tool for analysis

Navigation guide for Wikipedia

  • Circular Economy
  • pepijn
  • 03 Dec 2014

Future business needs process intelligence

‘Redesigning Business’ symposium, a mix of creative leaders from all manner of disciplines

  • Circular Economy
  • Natasha Berting
  • 24 Nov 2014

WDKA explores design of new business models

Willem de Kooning Academy focuses on developments in business models resulting from creative thinking in the ‘Redesigning Business’ event

  • Circular Economy
  • Bas van Lier
  • 17 Nov 2014

Poolen’s Plastic Soup Trip

  • Sustainability
  • Bas van Lier
  • 19 Sep 2014

Typing the Glass

  • Circular Economy
  • pepijn
  • 15 May 2014

The Naked Brand

  • Circular Economy
  • pepijn
  • 07 May 2014

The art of ‘ordinary’ British tailoring

  • Circular Economy
  • pepijn
  • 06 May 2014

Google and the world brain

  • Circular Economy
  • pepijn
  • 01 May 2014

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