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Celebrating design-led innovation that is transforming our world for the better
23 November 2021
8:30 – 10:00 AM EST
World Design Impact Prize™ (WDIP) is an initiative that highlights the creativity and ingenuity of designers everywhere working to address a variety of global issues. This year, nominated projects addressed issues such as maternal health, water scarcity, climate change, public safety and homelessness.
On 23 November 2021 from 8:30am – 10am EST, WDO hosted a 90-minute World Design Talks where we had the opportunity to hear from the three finalist projects JERRY: The Jerrycan Waterfilter,
My Safetipin and TRASHPRESSO and learn about how they are using design to make a difference in communities around the world.
This online event offered key perspectives from the project leads on the problems that their solutions aim to address and culminated with the announcement of the recipient of the World Design Impact Prize 2021 edition.
Srini Srinivasan
President of WDO
Chairman & CEO of LUMIUM DESIGN, Inc.
Bertrand Derome
Managing Director
WDO
Teresa Franqueira
Designer and Associate Professor, University of Aveiro and International Coordinator,
DESIS Network
Kalpana Viswanath
Co-founder and CEO
My SafetiPin
Jarvis Liu
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
TRASHPRESSO
*Programme subject to change at the discretion of the organizer
8:30 EST
Welcome and introductions
8:35 EST
History of World Design Impact Prize
8:45 EST
Finalists Presentations
9:15 EST
Moderated Panel Session with all finalists
9:35 EST
Outcome of WDIP Trophy competition
9:45 EST
Announcement of WDIP 2021 recipient
9:55 EST
Closing remarks