Get Involved

Every year on 29 June, World Industrial Design Day brings the global design community together to celebrate the transformative power of our profession. As we look ahead to this year’s focus on resilient design, explore the ideas below to learn more about how you can mark the day in your community.

Reflect

Translate and contextualize
Translate WDO’s Code of Ethics or Definition of Industrial Design into your local language to explore how resilience shows up in your context.

Audit your work through a resilience lens Identify one past project that faced setbacks. Where did adaptation occur? What strengthened the outcome?

Map your resilience momentsWith your team, identify key moments in your practice where constraints, failure or change led to growth.

Learn

Explore the Resilient Designers HandbookEngage with research and tools developed with WDO Member Delft University of Technology and reflect on how they apply to your work.

Share a resilience resourceAmplify WIDD 2026 on social media by sharing one article, podcast, case study, or book that deepened your understanding of resilience in design.

Upskill your organization’s resilience skills Resilient design is green design. Boost your team’s resilience skillset with the Skills for Planet Training from WDO Member Design Council.

Act

Host a ‘stories of resilience’ eventOrganize a local gathering (formal or informal), where designers share honest stories of failure, adaptation and recover

Apply one resilient design toolTest one of the following methods in your workflow: systems mapping, scenario planning, lifecycle thinking, adaptive prototyping.

Make a public commitmentGet your city to proclaim 29 June as World Industrial Design Day.

Join us on social media

Tag us in your posts on social media @worlddesignorg so we can share your contributions to this year’s World Industrial Design Day celebration.