WHAT DESIGN CAN DO LIVE

WHAT DESIGN CAN DO LIVE

Role: Project Leader
Year: 2024
City: Amsterdam

The 12th edition of WDCD Live in Amsterdam took place at the beautiful Muziekgebouw and featured an immersive programme of talks and workshops on design and climate justice. Together we explored how creative activism can be a powerful tool for disruption—and learned from the changemakers who are paving the way.

Changing the course of the climate crisis means saving all that we can, while building a new way of life that is regenerative and restorative by design. It also means telling better stories about the world than those who are destroying it, and imagining a future that is more sustainable, equitable and beautiful than the past. During the festival, we explored what this might look like in practice through the lens of three core themes: Designing for Climate Justice, From Ancient Wisdom to AI, and Designing for the Circular Transition.

all photos by Tom Doms

Main Stage Speakers

Afaina de Jong
Bobby Kolade
Clive Russell
Dirk-Jan Visser
Edel Rodriguez
Natsai Audrey Chieza
René van Geer
Samar Maakaroun
Saskia van Stein
Touria Meliani
Ikenna Azuike

Challenge Winners

Breatheasy
Co-Culturing Rituals
Electric Skin
Forestguard
Cellsense
Looop Can
Celium by Polybion
Germinitorium
A Bite of Extinction
The Revival
Reef Rocket

Workshop Speakers

Barbara Vos
Willemien Ippel
Maureen de Jong
Meis Suker
Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes
Henriette Waal
Katy Barnard
Abdo Hassan
Dymphie Braun
Alex can Straaten
Jordi Vreeling
Lisanne Buik
Karin Fischnaller
Lilian Stolk
Henriks Prociks
Kris Keiller
Melissa Korn
Safi Graauw
Lotte Bloem
Sophie Tendai Christiaens
Shay Raviv
Lyongo Juliana