World Design Organization
Design plays a critical role in transforming today’s global challenges into opportunities through empathy, innovation, and collaboration. This session, led by students and faculty at WDO Member BES...
From WDO Member Enigma Creative comes a conversation exploring the layered realities of life along the San Diego-Tijuana border. With contributions from local design leaders, this session highlight...
How can design education nurture resilience? Through student, educator and industry perspectives, this session from WDO Member Creya Learning explores how the school has embraced hands-on, maker-ba...
India’s Design Advantage stems from its unique fusion of cultural wisdom, frugal innovation, technological excellence, and human-centred thinking. In this session from WDO Member Confederation of I...
In this session, design entrepreneur and Founder of WDO Member REFRAME Design Roberto Inderbitzin reflects on resilience as judgment rather than endurance, acting instead of reacting, choosing sign...
The green transition is here. How can designers prepare? Tune in to this presentation from Rachel Bronstein, Programme Lead for Skills at WDO Member Design Council, to learn more about their Skills...
Join resilience expert Amaia Celaya Alvarez as she explores the urgent need to integrate adaptive strategies into design practice across products, services, spaces and business models. Focusing on ...
How can designers navigate uncertainty while driving meaningful change? Drawing on her research as co-founder of the Resilient Designers Project, Dr. Rebecca Price shares practical approaches for c...
In this conversation moderated by WDO Content Manager Sarah Virgini, Dr. Pamela Cajilig draws on her ongoing work with WDO and the Design Center of the Philippines as part of the Interdesign Siarga...
Nature is a designer's best teacher, especially when it comes to resilience. Drawing on his innovative work as the Founder of Japanese design strategy firm NOSIGNER, this session with WDO Board Mem...
How can resilience inform national design development? In this conversation, Dr. Kenneth Ssemwogerere, Creative Director at WDO Member SASA College Of Industrial Design, and WDO Regional Advisor Dr...
This session, led by members of the leadership team at WDO Member Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI), explores how how design, through AI-driven design tools, industry and public innovation in...
From discarded textiles to stadium seats, Crafted Liberation leverages material innovation to honour Iranian women’s resilience in the pursuit of gender equality. In this session, Nila Rezaei, Aust...
This WDO Member Webinar explores why design awards can be a vehicle of recognition and a way to build credibility, visibility and access to global design networks. Hosted by WDO Member Three C Grou...
We’re hosting the Montreal premiere of our short film From Tradition to Transformation: World Design Capital Valencia 2022 on 5 May 2026 at MEM - Centre des mémoires montréalaises 🎞️
The film trac..
Dr. Pamela Cajilig, Design Research and Strategy Director for WDO Interdesign Siargao Island shares more background material on the current challenges and tensions that will be addressed during the...
Every two years, World Design Organization invites cities and regions worldwide to bid for the World Design Capital® designation. WDC is intended for cities that strategically leverage design to dr...
"When we invest in women, those benefits ripple outward and create opportunities that open doors in our workplaces, classrooms and societies."
To mark #InternationalWomensDay, we are capping off ...
To mark #InternationalWomensDay, we’re shining a spotlight on women leaders across our global community by asking: what is one thing designers can give to help advance gender equality in our indust...
To mark #InternationalWomensDay, we’re shining a spotlight on women leaders across our global community by asking: what is one thing designers can give to help advance gender equality in our indust...