‘The fear of being naive is completely overvalued’
WDCD2015 / VBAT Meet Market with Stefan Sagmeister talking about Urban Issues and other things
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Happiness is in the senses
WDCD2015 / Report part 4: What Design Can Do for the Senses
‘Designer must live the context he is designing for’
WDCD2015 / Report part 1: What Design Can Do for Humanity
‘Designer’s influence calls for a moral code’
WDCD2015 / Design critic Jeroen Junte launches Designer’s Oath at WDCD
‘Design really can make a difference’
WDCD2015 / Two days on the impact of design
Heavenly soup and God in a punch bowl
WDCD2015 / Joint event WDCD and Stedelijk Museum brings Amazon to Amsterdam
WDCD announces international design challenge
WDCD2015 / Celebrating the fifth edition of WDCD
‘Get rich at heart, or die trying’
WDCD2015 / Interview with co-founder and director Richard van der Laken on five years of WDCD
Brian Roy to train We Are Here FC
Football team of rejected asylum seekers leads the way in design project
Eat Shit and be most influential
Fast Company reckons eating designer Marije Vogelzang among most influential creative
Blue waves over Amsterdam
Artwork Waterlicht by Daan Roosegaarde visualizes Dutch vulnerability for water
‘With numerical imagery we’d have complete power’
Thomas Knoll recalls the birth of Adobe’s Photoshop 25 years ago
Shape-changing desk thinks with you
MIT graduate and researcher Viirj Kan developed the adaptive desk TRANSFORM
Rabbit on the run
New video by Rogier Wieland for Moleskine Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Limited Edition Collection
Space with the music
International Space Orchestra‘s record reached space
Amsterdam turns yellow and red
Less than three weeks to go and What Design Can Do takes over the city
Life after Snowden: stop sharing, start caring
Crypto Design Challenge aims to deploy design to make data intelligible
‘Some call it resilience, I call it common sense’
Cameron Sinclair speaks out on what should be done in Nepal
Reimagining Osu Night Market in Accra
Ghana Design Network to host a breakout session at WDCD
Refugees deserve better education
OpenIDEO's Refugee Education Challenge seeks education solutions for refugees
Mandarin and leather make you feel safer
Scent design can influence bus passengers’ experience of safety
Candies of glass to bring light and joy
Campana brothers present Candy Collection in Milan
The safest bike since 1884
Crispin Sinclair’s Babel Bike with safety cell protects cyclists against trucks and busses
’The most powerful social media is food’
Top chef Alex Atala speaks out in a meetup with surfer Rob Machado