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“All my work has been cancelled. What now?”

Looking back at Designers for Designers, a coaching series for surviving the pandemic

  • Creative Leadership
  • What Design Can Do
  • 10 Dec 2020

Seventeen new toilets for Tokyo

In the wake of COVID-19, a push for more inclusive public facilities

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Natasha Berting
  • 30 Sep 2020

Marina Willer makes doodles out of migraines

This week's visual relief is bright, bold and functions as creative therapy

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 25 Sep 2020

Style and sustainability for the new normal

Environmentally friendly masks with high impact on local economic activities

  • Design in times of corona
  • What Design Can Do
  • 17 Jul 2020

Estudio Guto Requena turns heartbeats into digital art

Heartbits is a new app to share love with those you miss

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 24 Jun 2020

Innovative handwashing stations pop up across Africa

Creative ideas include solar-powered sinks and hands-free taps

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 07 May 2020

SafeHandFish repurposes soy sauce bottles as hand sanitising gel containers

In response to the UN’s call for creative ideas to limit coronavirus, Japan now serves sanitizer in fish-shaped soy bottles

  • Design in times of corona
  • What Design Can Do
  • 05 May 2020

Open-source masks, gowns and coveralls for all

Fashion designers join forces to produce much-needed protective garments

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 23 Apr 2020

New flat-pack recovery units for doctors and patients

Cameron Sinclair joins humanitarian startup JUPE HEALTH

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 01 Apr 2020

SymptoTrack maps untested COVID-19 cases

Volunteers from three Dutch internet design and development agencies develop an open-source platform to track the spread of infections

  • Design in times of corona
  • Bas van Lier
  • 30 Mar 2020

How 3D printing comes to the rescue

German network of companies, institutions and research institutes pushes 3D-printed applications for professional use

  • Design in times of corona
  • Bas van Lier
  • 26 Mar 2020

CURA: OPEN SOURCE DESIGN FOR EMERGENCY COVID-19 HOSPITALS

WDCD Alumnus Carlo Ratti collaborates on fast response initiative

  • Design in times of corona
  • Bas van Lier
  • 25 Mar 2020

Make your own mask!

How designers improvise in times of shortage

  • Design in times of corona
  • Femke van Gemert
  • 24 Mar 2020

A mural for your thoughts

Can supergraphics counter the effect air pollution has on our health?

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Edith Ault
  • 26 Sep 2019

Design and mental health: Breaking barriers

Exploring how the power of design can help those in need

  • Radical Collaboration labs
  • Tyron Winter
  • 18 Sep 2019

Getting intimate with technology

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

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • What Design Can Do
  • 03 Apr 2018

Waterless loo improves lives in Madagascar

Loowatt toilet with biodegradable film system|Loowatt's digester in use in Madagascar’s capital AntananarivoLoowatt provides Madagascans with both sanitation and energy and could be an alternative in the West too

  • Climate Action
  • Bas van Lier
  • 27 Jun 2017

Tech device helps dementia patient to be more active

Proximity Button warns carer when patient gets out of reach

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Bas van Lier
  • 22 Aug 2016

Healthy building syndrome for Medibank

Collaborative design process leads to a health encouraging building

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Bas van Lier
  • 22 Jun 2015

Isolated children in hospital want to play too

KonneKt lets isolated children in hospital play with their peers

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Bas van Lier
  • 08 Jun 2015

Selling alcohol to reduce harmful drinking

Designers help social enterprise to attack alcoholism through a retail outlet for alcohol

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Bas van Lier
  • 27 Mar 2015

This is the hospital children want to go to

Artists transform the wards and halls of the Royal London Children's Hospital

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Natasha Berting
  • 16 Feb 2015

Fight malaria with desirable products

  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Bas van Lier
  • 05 Dec 2014

Waterless toilet turns human waste into energy

  • Energy
  • pepijn
  • 01 Dec 2014

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