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  • Jimena Acosta and Larissa Ribeiro speak about gender equality in design in this talk hosted by VDF and What Design Can Do

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    In the final part of Virtual Design Festival's day of talks with What Design Can Do, curator Jimena Acosta and artist Larissa Ribeiro discussed gender equality in design More

    Calum Lindsay | 19 June 2020
  • As part of Virtual Design Festvial's day of talks with What Design Can Do, designer Anoushka Khandwala and fashion curator Sunny Dolat discuss how colonialism has shaped design

    Live talk on decolonising design as part of VDF's collaboration with What Design Can Do

    In the second part of Virtual Design Festival's day of talks with What Design Can Do, designer Anoushka Khandwala and fashion curator Sunny Dolat discussed how colonialism has shaped design. More

    Calum Lindsay | 19 June 2020
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    What Design Can Do is live-streaming three talks focusing on social justice in design in collaboration with VDF today. The first is with journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, who will discuss challenging bias and misrepresentation in the news. Watch the talk from 11:00am UK time. More

    Cajsa Carlson | 19 June 2020 | Leave a comment
  • What Design Can Do addresses the sexual exploitation of children in Holland in No Minor Thing competition

    What Design Can Do campaigns combat sexual exploitation of children in Netherlands

    Amsterdam-based design platform What Design Can Do has unveiled 13 campaigns against the sexual exploitation of underage children, as part of a design competition called No Minor Thing. More

    Natashah Hitti | 30 November 2018 | Leave a comment
  • What Design Can Do asks designers for innovative solutions in Clean Energy Challenge

    Dezeen promotion: Amsterdam-based design platform What Design Can Do is asking architects and designers for proposals that can help cities transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. More

    Dezeen staff | 6 November 2018 | Leave a comment
  • What Design Can Do reveals shortlist for Climate Action Challenge

    A backpack radio station designed to warn remote communities of impending natural disasters and a bio-degradeable tower that harvests water from air are among the projects shortlisted in What Design Can Do's Climate Action Challenge. More

    Natasha Levy | 30 October 2017
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    Climate Action Challenge asks designers for proposals to tackle climate change

    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

    Calum Lindsay | 13 July 2017 | 2 comments
  • What Design Can Do conference to explore design-led solutions to climate change

    Dezeen promotion: architects, designers and environmental experts will propose answers to the issue of climate change at the annual What Design Can Do conference in Amsterdam this month. More

    Amy Frearson | 17 May 2017 | 1 comment
  • UNHCR teams up with MIT's D-Lab to overhaul "very top-down" refugee design strategy

    The United Nations High Commission for Refugees is working with MIT's D-Lab to develop design strategies that enable refugees to solve their own problems rather than relying on solutions provided by aid agencies (+ interview). More

    Marcus Fairs | 5 July 2016 | 2 comments
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    What Design Can Do announces winners of Refugee Challenge

    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

    Alice Morby | 1 July 2016 | Leave a comment
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    "Design is always political" says What Design Can Do founder

    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

    Anna Winston | 30 June 2016
  • What Design Can Do to examine how Africa can help solve Europe's design "identity crisis"

    Dezeen promotion: this year's What Design Can Do conference will focus on European identity and how the continent can learn from new initiatives emerging in Africa (+ slideshow). More

    Anna Winston | 28 June 2016
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    Peter Saville headlines What Design Can Do for Music talks programme

    Dezeen promotion: annual conference What Design Can Do is launching its first talks programme about the relationship between design and music (+ slideshow). More

    Anna Winston | 27 June 2016
  • What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge shortlist

    What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge unveils 25 shortlisted projects to improve refugee's lives

    Dezeen promotion: 25 designs that offer a range of solutions for improving the lives of refugees living in urban environments have been shortlisted for the first What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge (+ slideshow). More

    Anna Winston | 25 June 2016
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    Competition: win tickets to What Design Can Do 2016 conference in Amsterdam

    Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with What Design Can Do to offer readers the chance to win one of three tickets to its annual conference on the social impact of design, held in Amsterdam (+ slideshow). More

    Eleanor Gibson | 17 June 2016
  • What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge receives more than 600 entries

    Dezeen promotion: more than 600 entries have been submitted by designers, architects and students for a competition aiming to discover projects that can improve the lives of refugees around the world. More

    Anna Winston | 16 June 2016
  • "Designers cannot just stand by and watch as the refugee crisis unfolds"

    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

    Richard van der Laken | 29 April 2016 | 7 comments
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    "Treating the refugee crisis as a design problem is problematic"

    Opinion: initiatives like What Design Can Do's Refugee Challenge encourage designers to believe that they can solve international problems that go far beyond their reach, says Ruben Pater. More

    Ruben Pater | 21 April 2016 | 9 comments
  • What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge

    What Design Can Do launches design challenge to create solutions for refugees

    Dutch organisation What Design Can Do has launched an international competition to help find solutions for refugees facing a wide variety of challenges. More

    Anna Winston | 19 February 2016 | 2 comments
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    Synthetic biology is turning into industrial design, says Daisy Ginsberg

    Advances in genetic technology mean that creating synthetic animals has become just another branch of industrial design, according to Daisy Ginsberg. More

    Dan Howarth | 10 December 2015 | 1 comment
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