Schone energie voor 5 steden op 5 continenten: dat was het thema van de talkshow Stadsleven x What Design Can Do op 6 maart 2019. Daar werden de winnaars bekend van de Clean Energy Challenge die What Design Can Do…
Stadsleven en internationaal platform What Design Can Do hebben de handen ineengeslagen en op 6 maart 2019 een live talkshow verzorgd over nieuwe ideeën voor schone energie in 5 wereldsteden op 5 continenten. WDCD had in samenwerking met de IKEA…
Nairobi is the most populous city in East Africa and is home to one of the worlds largest urban slums. This means a lot of mouths to feed, but little room to grow food. As a result, Nairobi is struggling…
Amsterdam’s city center is filled with monuments and protected buildings, leaving little space for new clean energy infrastructure. As a result, only 9% of the energy Amsterdam generates now is classed as ‘sustainable’ (including fuel and heat). Can design help create…
The world is urbanising: by 2050 more than two-thirds of the global population will live in cities. In Delhi, the race to build homes for a rapidly growing population has left sustainability by the wayside. Buildings are the main source…
In São Paulo, our key question was: How can we encourage clean and green mobility in the city? The São Paulo metropolitan region has one of the world’s largest population of vehicles, and they belch out 97% of the city’s carbon-monoxide…
Let’s take a closer look at the nominees for each of the five Challenge cities, starting with Mexico City. For Mexico’s capital, the leading question was: How can we encourage people to treat waste as a resource in homes and…
‘My aim is to get people to think differently about solar,’ said Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel at her talk during What Design Can Do Live Amsterdam 2018. She was there to present her groundbreaking project Power Plant: the world’s first…
‘Our research in preparation for the Clean Energy Challenge focused on finding out where designers can make a difference in this context,’ says Sophie Knight, who together with co-founder Bas Raijmakers explored the topic for almost half a year at…
Worm Hotels for Mexico City. An office bus that allows employees to work while traveling to their offices in São Paulo. A portable solar-powered unit to reduce post-harvest losses for Nairobi. Energy-efficient water tanks for Delhi. And a proposal to…