Dutch designer Matilde Boelhouwer has designed a series of artificial flowers that turn rain into sugar water, to serve as emergency food sources for city-dwelling insect pollinators. More
Dutch designer Xandra van der Eijk has poured household chemicals onto widely available metal objects in an installation that aims to demonstrate how chemical waste dumping is affecting the earth in the anthropocene era. More
Designers have developed projects for human-rights defenders in seven countries: Sudan, Nicaragua, Colombia, Russia, Kenya, Mexico and Burundi. More
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Don Kwaning has created an ecological packaging material from the pith of a fast growing plant called soft rush. More
Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel has developed a self-powered hydroponic rooftop greenhouse that generates solar energy to optimise good conditions for growth, in a bid to tackle the issue of food shortages. More
Eindhoven-based design studio Dutch Invertuals has curated an exhibition of 10 objects, to question whether – in the anthropocene era – it is possible to reduce the volume of non-essential products in our lives. More
The world's first 3D-printed bridge, a humanoid walrus and a Dezeen panel discussion on the anthropocene are among our top 10 Instagram highlights from Dutch Design Week 2018. More
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Aurore Brard has created tableware featuring coloured accents, designed to help visually impaired people dish up the correct amount of food and drink. More
Dutch robotics company MX3D has completed the 3D printing of a steel bridge, which will be installed across a canal in Amsterdam next year. More
Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs speaks 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
Eindhoven-based Studio Joachim-Morineau has designed a manufacturing machine that replicates human error, to create ceramics with individual structures, patterns and textures. More
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
Dezeen promotion: Dutch Design Week is calling on the design industry to be more conscious about the impact of their creations with its 2018 theme: If not us, then who?
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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
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
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
Designers can't solve real-world problems on their own, according to designer Bernhard Lenger, whose latest project sees creatives team up with human-rights defenders to develop tools for change. More
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
A Dutch company has developed technology for 3D printing floors in an endless variety of colours and patterns. More
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Mirjam de Bruijn has designed a series of decorative objects that can all be used to improve posture while working. More