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How New York City’s Armour is Being Transformed into Art

The Plywood Protection Project finds new use for boarded-up storefronts

  • Art
  • Natasha Berting
  • 19 Nov 2020

Crisis Mapping the US Elections

Activists launch new platform to monitor violence across the USA

  • Technology
  • Natasha Berting
  • 06 Nov 2020

Viral Times: Broadcasting Untold Stories From the Slums

Chicoco Radio launches new media platform for artists & activists in Nigeria

  • Design in times of corona
  • Natasha Berting
  • 30 Oct 2020

Powerful prints for Beirut

This week's visual relief celebrates the best of the Beirut Editions art sale

  • Graphic Design
  • What Design Can Do
  • 21 Oct 2020

No Place for Sex Trafficking

New program makes hotel rooms and holiday rentals safer for all

  • No Minor Thing
  • Natasha Berting
  • 22 Sep 2020

Cards for Humanity is an online tool for inclusive design

A new resource to help creatives build empathy and make better products

  • Social Justice
  • Natasha Berting
  • 01 Sep 2020

Decolonising Design

Anoushka Khandwala on what it means to decolonise design in the light of the mobilisation of the Black Lives Matter movement

  • Social Justice
  • Anoushka Khandwala
  • 17 Jun 2020

Dezeen x WDCD: Urgent conversations on social justice in design

Three live talks about media power, decolonising design & gender equality

  • Social Justice
  • What Design Can Do
  • 15 Jun 2020

Shelterbags for South Africa’s homeless

New project to help people surviving COVID-19 on the streets

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

A Hand Signal for Help

Online campaign to support those experiencing violence in isolation

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

Gender equality, a central theme of WDCD México GNP 2020

A critical time for feminist activism in Mexico

  • WDCD Mexico City
  • What Design Can Do
  • 08 Mar 2020

Creative attack on the US-Mexico border wall by architect duo

The Teeter Totter Wall demonstrates the delicate balances between the two nations

  • Architecture
  • Daphne
  • 01 Aug 2019

Public prosecutors embrace No Minor Thing results

‘At least ten projects deserve to be developed further’

  • No Minor Thing
  • Bas van Lier
  • 18 Dec 2018

What was it like to participate in No Minor Thing?

Design teams share their experiences with the challenge

  • No Minor Thing
  • Bas van Lier
  • 20 Nov 2018

13 new approaches to fighting sexual exploitation of children

WDCD and partners present the outcomes of the No Minor Thing challenge

  • No Minor Thing
  • Bas van Lier
  • 19 Nov 2018

‘We need design to address sexual exploitation of minors’

WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 report: Workshop No Minor Thing

  • No Minor Thing
  • Bas van Lier
  • 01 Jun 2018

Tricked into sexual exploitation

Public prosecutor reflects on WDCD’s new challenge on sexual exploitation of children

  • No Minor Thing
  • Bas van Lier
  • 23 Apr 2018

10,000 New Sheltersuits For The Homeless

Bas Timmer wants to provide Sheltersuits for all the refugees in Lesbos

  • Social Design
  • Bas van Lier
  • 17 Apr 2018

New invitation-only challenge: No Minor Thing

Dutch Public Prosecutor’s Office joins forces with What Design Can Do to combat sexual exploitation of children

  • No Minor Thing
  • What Design Can Do
  • 28 Mar 2018

Dancing change into the court room

Design Academy graduate Dorota Gazy aims to bring humanity back in the justice system with the help of dancers

  • Social Justice
  • Bas van Lier
  • 10 Nov 2017

How design can help address violence against women

Shay Raviv (STBY) describes what to expect from the breakout session on Violence against women: Deconstructing cultural behaviour

  • Designing Activism
  • pepijn
  • 07 Dec 2016

WDCD announces new research theme: Violence against Women

Four breakout sessions at WDCD Live São Paulo to explore the possibilities for design to address the theme

  • Gender
  • Bas van Lier
  • 24 Nov 2016

‘When it comes to inclusion Canada is the new guiding country’

WDCD’s Richard van der Laken reflects on his participation in 6 Degrees forum on inclusion and citizenship

  • Social Justice
  • Bas van Lier
  • 28 Sep 2016

Campaign Zero: A platform for ending police violence

How designers are helping visualise the Black Lives Matter movement

  • Graphic Design
  • Natasha Berting
  • 27 Jul 2016

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