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Dune covered carpark doubles as flood defence

Named the Best Dutch Building of the Year in 2016, the Katwijk underground parking garage protects against future floods. >
Floris Kaayk: The Modular Body merges fact and fiction

Filmmaker Floris Kaayk toys with the public’s willingness to believe in the extraordinary. >
What Design Can Do unveils Refugee Challenge winners

Alongside a conference on design and innovation, What Design Can Do hosted the refugee challenge to address one of the major issues of our time. >
WDCD 2016: Here’s what you missed

The What Design Can Do conference is an annual display of design innovation. Here’s what you missed from its 2016 iteration. >
Four ways Africa can influence design

A core theme of the What Design Can Do conference explores what Africa can do for Europe. These are the experts called upon for answers. >
Marginalised communities are shaping the face of Africa, says Michael Uwemedimo

Speaking at the What Design Can Do conference, filmmaker Michael Uwemedimo tells us about CMAP’s multimedia approach to community upliftment. >
What Design Can Do looks at what Africa can do for Europe

The challenges we face can be solved through international cooperation. This year’s WDCD conference looks at Africa’s solutions for Europe’s problems. >
Refugee Challenge: Community, innovation and information

In the second installment of our look at the Refugee Challenge, we look at what design can do to solve their problems. >
Design student’s project is inspired by 240 million kilograms of wasted pine needles

Designer Tamara Orjola wins an award for creating a multi-use material from industrial waste. >
The Refugee Challenge: Six innovative ways to house and educate asylum seekers

Today’s refugee crisis has left millions without a home or education. Here are some solutions. >
From 2D to 3D and back again

Jongha Choi’s 2D designs can be plucked straight off the wall. >
Free Wi-Fi in exchange for keeping the air clean

Amsterdam-based startup TreeWiFi designs birdhouses that offer free internet when the air quality improves. >
ReGen Village: an under-construction utopia of sustainable living

Self-sustaining, off-grid village to be built in the Netherlands offers a look at the future of eco-friendly living. >
DoruNsimba: a design collaboration reintroducing Africa to the world

A collaboration of two African-born creatives hopes to change perceptions of the African continent through their work. >
Plastic recycling initiative supports waste pickers in developing countries

Amsterdam-based group Reflow drive a socially responsible 3D printing community >
Pop-up sweatshop appears in Amsterdam

Customers face the harsh reality of where their clothes come from in this pop-up sweatshop. >
Sundial installation 3D-printed with sheets of plastic

Contemporary sundial uses solar data to change shape according to the natural trajectory of the sun. >
Wikkelhouse: A house made of 24 layers of cardboard

A marvel of sustainable design, Wikkelhouse is fully customisable and environmentally friendly. >
Drone waitstaff gives valuable insight into a burgeoning technology

Students at the Eindhoven University of Technology launched the world’s first drone cafe but they want to do much more. >
Dutch designer creates flexible wood for furniture range

Designer Carolien Laro contradicts the notion of wood as a rigid material with her springy wooden furniture. >
OSCAR: Challenging the divide between human and machine

Dutch filmmaker and visual artist Floris Kaayk’s series of interconnected videos tells the sci-fi story of OSCAR, a modular life form. >
Green Product: From PET bottles to this range of chairs

The LJ series by Dutch studio De Vorm is a range of chairs and stools that feature a strong, soft felt material that is made of recycled PET bottles. >
Redesign Meat at the Slagerij de Hamvraag

Food designers rethink the meat industry in a series of talks and discussions at the Slagerij de Hamvraag pop up butchery in the Netherlands. >
Dave Hakkens’ DIY plastic recycling machines

Industrial designer shares blueprints for recycling machines so that anyone can make plastic products at home. >

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