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Past Issues

October 2020 | July 2020 | March 2020 | June 2019 | January 2019

Design For Social Impact
October 2020

Features

  • Who Wants to be a B Corp?
  • Teaching a different kind of responsible design
  • Design: An Instrument of Inclusion or Exclusion?

Opinion

  • The last mile is a human mile
  • The Power of Designing for Social Impact
  • Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value
  • Lessons In Design And Scale For Social Impact Organizations

Resources

  • Making life better by design
  • How to Design for social impact
  • Design thinking for social innovation
  • Design and Social Impact
See full issue

Design And The Circular Economy
July 2020

Features

  • Bringing the Circular Economy to Design Fairs
  • Adding New Value to Used Chopsticks

Success Stories

  • RePack is returnable delivery packaging designed to be reused 40 times
  • TerraCycle® is a social enterprise on a mission to eliminate the idea of waste
  • The city of Amsterdam is aiming towards 50% circularity by 2025 and 100% circular by 2050
  • HY William Chan shares how refugees can be empowered to transform their environments through the circular economy

Opinion

  • Two Environmental Buzzwords, Same Meaning?

Resources

  • Unschool offers multiple workshops and courses on the subject
  • The Circular Design Guide is a collaboration between the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and IDEO
See full issue

Design with smart materials: make, break, reuse, recycle
March 2020

Features

  • Tomorrow Machine: zero waste food packaging
  • Globe Hope: a second life for industrial materials

Success Stories

  • This fabric infused with live bacteria is designed to reduce body odours and improve immunity
  • BioScales – a biodegradable bioplastic that sucks carbon from the air
  • Who needs best-by labels when your package can tell you when food is going bad
  • Lettuce Eat is an award-winning series of biodegradable plates made from lettuce waste
  • Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute are developing a range of eco-friendly biodegradable plastics that require less energy to make
  • This fully bio-based BioFoam made of vegetable materials is the first CO2 neutral foam in the world
See full issue

Designing for Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG12)
June 2019

Features

  • PepsiCo’s vision to build a world where plastics need never become waste
  • EU policy makers are taking steps to improve product design
  • Food waste as an alternative to plastic cutlery
  • Providing a sustainable alternative to Bangladeshi farmers through design

Success Stories

  • IIT Hyderabad uses recycled material to reduce virgin asphalt for roads
  • Planet First – Samsung’s green initiative
  • 3D-printed snacks made out of food waste
  • Adidas Futurecraft.Loop, the first shoe made to be remade
  • Fairphone, the world’s first ethical, modular smartphone
  • Seaweed drinks capsules as an alternative to plastic bottles
See full issue

Better Cities by Design
January 2019

Features

  • Tanya Müller “Cities have to design public spaces for people”

Success Stories

  • Copenhagen: Creating the World’s First Carbon Neutral Capital
  • São Paulo: building better cities
  • Four smart local design ideas leading the way to make Australia’s cities more amenable places to live
  • Zenata Eco-City, Africa’s first green city
See full issue

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