What Design Can Do has teamed up with Autodesk Foundation and IKEA Foundation to launch the Climate Action Challenge, a competition inviting designers to come up with proposals responding to climate change. More about Climate Action Challenge asks designers for proposals to tackle climate change
Proposals for a travelling kitchen and a website that enables refugees to sell their own photographs are included in the five winning projects of the first What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge. More about What Design Can Do announces winners of Refugee Challenge
Dezeen promotion: designers can engage with social and political problems that are sometimes too big for governments to tackle, says Richard van der Laken, founder of annual social design conference What Design Can Do (+ interview). More about "Design is always political" says What Design Can Do founder
Opinion: designers can't save the world, but even the smallest intervention could help improve the conditions faced by the unprecedented number of refugees flooding Europe, says Richard van der Laken. More about "Designers cannot just stand by and watch as the refugee crisis unfolds"
Opinion: designers have a responsibility to help with the growing refugee crisis in Europe and beyond, says Richard van der Laken, founder of What Design Can Do. More about "Design is more than perfume, aesthetics and trends"