WDCD alumni and friends among Best Designs of the Year
Several projects with ties to What Design Can Do nominated in the Design Museum's Best Designs of the Year contest
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Driving faster than the wind in your face
Seven student teams arrived in Den Helder for one of the four large sustainability races in the world
Impact grants for two social design start-ups
Young designers with their concept made during a DesignathonLand Life Company and Designathon Works receive funding from Expo 2020 Dubai
‘What we need is positive science fiction’
An interview with digital entrepreneur and sustainability expert Francesco Cara
Plastic waste can be much prettier
|The Pretty Plastic Plant is a factory which transforms your household scrap into beautiful building materials
Tempting popsicles with a message
Polluted Water Popsicles Project draws attention to water pollution in Taiwan
Precious Plastic takes the next step
The full story behind Dave Hakkens' plastic recycling project
ECO coin puts value on nature
Rewarding environmental action through an alternative currency
Rescue your leftover food with the Brinery
A modern interpretation of the forgotten process of food preservation
Investigating how the future city can feed itself
IKEA’s innovation lab SPACE10 researches self-sustaining urban food production
Feed your 3D-printer with ethical filament
Indian waste pickers earn six times more with locally produced filament from plastic waste
World Animal Day: Here’s how we treat them
Animator Steve Cutts makes us look into the mirror
No modular phone from Google
Google ends Project Ara while modular phone was close to finish
Walls of green bring colour and air in the concrete desert
Landscape studio m.90 works on green corridor in São Paulo
Silver Lion for Kunlé Adeyemi
Venice Architecture Biennale issues award for promising young participant to designer of Makoko Floating School
Floating media center gives communities a voice
Architect Kunlé Adeyemi on the backgrounds of amphibious Chicoco Radio Media Center in Port Harcourt
The lab that turns waste into business
Rotterdam steps into the blue economy with 'BlueCity010'
Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge
Submission deadline for new CtoC designs is 1 December 2015
Mexican help for Precious Plastic
Mexican machine builder volunarily travels to the Netherlands to help out Dave Hakkens
The future of mobile is modular
Dutch designers lead the way in modular revolution
Ooho! that’s how a water blob is made
Edible water packaging is actually an easy thing to make at home
Césare Peeren turns waste into beauty
Superuse Studios’ head of design will present his ideas at WDCD2015
The packaging lasts as long as the product
Swedish design agency Tomorrow Machine develops short life sustainable packaging
Growing leather as thin as a butterfly wing
WDCD2012-speaker Suzanne Lee hosts a tour through her lab at Modern Meadow