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Haven’t we all been bad designers?
New campaign shares calls to action by Bruce Mau, Selly Raby Kane & more
In Indian society, repair is a dying skill
No Waste Challenge in Delhi: On frugality, sharing and craftsmanship
Clayre Coello & Carmen Serratos: weaving networks between women
Coolhuntermx celebrates women in Mexico's creative industries for #IWD2021
The link between waste & climate change, explained
Breaking down the mother of all environmental problems
Why waste is a socio-political issue
Making sense of the same storm, from very different boats
How bad design is driving the ‘take-make-waste’ economy
A closer look at all the ways that we can do better
No Waste Challenge is now open for submissions!
WDCD & the IKEA Foundation call for radical, design-driven solutions to waste
Looking back at the best of Design in Times of Corona
Our top stories of the year, as picked by our readers and editors
‘All my work has been cancelled. What now?’
Looking back at Designers for Designers, a coaching series for surviving the pandemic
Buy Nothing on Black Friday
And other ways to curb consumption this holiday season
The Smart App making Sao Paulo Cleaner and Safer
WDCDSP Interviews Clean Energy Challenge Winner Marcel Ogando from Milênio Bus
Style and sustainability for the new normal
Environmentally friendly masks with high impact on local economic activities
Dezeen x WDCD: Urgent conversations on social justice in design
Three live talks about media power, decolonising design & gender equality
How digital arts can solve the problem of socially distanced place-making
Exploring the role that digital arts can play for organisations based on live and tangible experiences
‘Designers of the People’ help small businesses to readjust
Creatives from 18 countries dedicate part of their time to voluntarily help local businesses
Art through the screen
Online museum visits that make you see more
Designers for Designers
A digital coaching series for creatives impacted by COVID-19
Every empty street is a crowd against the virus
Artists use stencils and chalk to share positive, publicly useful messages about social isolation on the streets of São Paulo.
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
Designers Against Coronavirus shows the pandemic through the eyes of creatives from 44 countries
A chat with Italian studio CaroselloLab, that collects COVID-19 related artwork
São Paulo chefs open their kitchens to communities in need
The most elementary form of aid: a plate of food
Initiatives for waste collectors
Protecting Brazil's most vulnerable with soap and a crowdfunded basic income