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Good Design for a Bad World

  • The panel for Dezeen's Good Design for a Bad World talk during Dutch Design Week 2018

    "More science fiction" needed to save planet earth, say designers at Dezeen talk

    Designers need to think of bigger, more ambitious solutions to the world's problems, according to speakers at Dezeen's talk about design in the anthropocene era during Dutch Design Week. More

    Marcus Fairs | 3 January 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Good Design for a Bad World: the anthropocene

    Watch our talk about design and the anthropocene at Dutch Design Week 2018

    Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs spoke to an expert panel about how designers can shape the anthropocene era to prevent global catastrophe in our latest Good Design for a Bad World talk. More

    Benedict Hobson | 20 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Good Design for a Bad World

    "Humans are clever. They can solve problems. There is hope"

    We are entering a new geological era: the anthropocene, in which human activity is a dominant influence on earth's geology and environment. At Dutch Design Week, a special edition of our Good Design for a Bad World series will ask if design can harness this phenomenon to prevent global catastrophe, writes Marcus Fairs. More

    Marcus Fairs | 17 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Dezeen and Dutch Design Week launch Good Design for a Bad World initiative

    Good Design for a Bad World: watch all five movies here

    Can design tackle the really big problems facing the world? Or is design helping to cause these problems? Below you can watch all five talks held by Dezeen and Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven from 21 and 22 October 2017, and find links to the write-ups of each. More

    Marcus Fairs | 21 February 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Rudy Van Belkom modular voting

    Design can help change the system, say speakers at Dezeen's politics talk

    Designers can influence politicians by proposing "10,000 little steps" to improve the world, according to speakers at our final Good Design for a Bad World talk at Dutch Design Week. More

    Marcus Fairs | 20 February 2018 | Leave a comment
  • "Should we feel guilty for causing pollution? Oh yeah!" admit green designers

    Eco-minded designers have admitted to feeling guilty about creating products that help deplete resources and cause pollution at our Good Design for a Bad World talks in Eindhoven. More

    Marcus Fairs | 30 January 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Eindhoven pioneers use of scent and light to "influence the behaviour of people" in crowds

    Scent and coloured lights could be used to reduce aggression in city streets, according to a crowd-behaviour expert who spoke at Dezeen's talk about design and terrorism at Dutch Design Week 2017. More

    Marcus Fairs | 4 January 2018 | 1 comment
  • Design can help people understand consent and sexual etiquette, says Embassy of Intimacy curator

    Intimacy is an "urgent topic" for designers to address in the light of revelations about sexual harassment in Hollywood and elsewhere, according to the curator of an exhibition held at Dutch Design Week. More

    Calum Lindsay | 20 December 2017 | 1 comment
  • "Don't design yet another shelter" for refugees, say experts

    Designers should stop proposing gimmicky solutions to the refugee crisis such as shelters, apps and emergency clothing, according to speakers at our Good Design for a Bad World talk at Dutch Design Week. More

    Marcus Fairs | 18 December 2017 | 5 comments
  • Sabine Wildevuur curated the Embassy of Health at Dutch Design Week 2017.

    Open-source healthcare design "could make the world a better place"

    Designers could revolutionise the health sector by helping patients take greater control of treatments, according to the curator of an exhibition at this year's Dutch Design Week. More

    Calum Lindsay | 8 December 2017 | Leave a comment
  • Marije Vogelzang curated the Embassy of Food at Dutch Design Week 2017

    "We need creative ideas to change the food system" says Marije Vogelzang

    The production and consumption of food needs to be radically rethought if we are to feed the world's population, according to designer Marije Vogelzang. More

    Calum Lindsay | 29 November 2017 | 13 comments
  • Movie offers a look inside the People's Pavilion from Dutch Design Week

    This captioned movie features the venue for Dezeen's Good Design for a Bad World talks at Dutch Design Week – a pavilion designed by Bureau SLA and Overtreders W, which was built using only borrowed and recycled materials. More

    Sebastian Jordahn | 28 November 2017 | Leave a comment
  • We need designers, not scientists, to show us how to change the world, says Babette Porcelijn

    Designers have the power to solve the world's problems, but it may mean creating more systems and less stuff, says Dutch designer and environmentalist Babette Porcelijn. More

    Amy Frearson | 22 November 2017 | 9 comments
  • Mobile phones and other industrial products have "the number one impact" on climate change

    The products that designers help create are the biggest contributors to climate change, according to research presented at our Good Design for a Bad World talks at Dutch Design Week last month. More

    Marcus Fairs | 21 November 2017 | 3 comments
  • Daan Roosegaard design should be about clean air and clean water

    Good design is about clean air and water, not a Louis Vuitton bag, says Daan Roosegaarde

    Daan Roosegaarde has called on designers to shift focus away from designing luxury items and instead to tackle the problems facing the world such as pollution. More

    Marcus Fairs | 16 November 2017 | 2 comments
  • Democracy needs a redesign, says Rudy van Belkom

    Dutch designer Rudy van Belkom has envisioned a radical new electoral system that would allow voters to pick and choose policies from different political parties. More

    Amy Frearson | 26 October 2017 | 13 comments
  • Watch our final talk at Dutch Design Week on design and politics

    Finishing off Good Design for a Bad World, our series of talks about how design could tackle the world's big problems, a panel of speakers debated our turbulent political times live from Dutch Design Week. More

    Trudie Carter | 22 October 2017 | Leave a comment
  • Watch our talk on pollution from Dutch Design Week

    On day two of our Good Design for a Bad World talks series, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs was joined by a panel of speakers to discuss design and pollution live from Dutch Design Week. More

    Trudie Carter | 22 October 2017 | 1 comment
  • Winy Maas led debate on design's role in preventing terrorism

    MVRDV founder Winy Maas joined a panel of speakers to discuss the relationship between city design and terrorism in this talk, which was the third in our Good Design for a Bad World series recorded during Dutch Design Week. More

    Trudie Carter | 21 October 2017 | 3 comments
  • Our second talk from Dutch Design Week explored how design can help refugees

    Design's role in the ongoing refugee crisis is the focus of our next Good Design for a Bad World talk, which was the second in a five-part series we streamed from Dutch Design Week. More

    Trudie Carter | 21 October 2017 | 1 comment
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