[Advertorial] In the Circular Design Guidebook, polymer manufacturer Covestro presents approaches and strategies on how the transformation to a circular economy can succeed. Von Martina Metzner Covestro is one of […]
Green City, Part 2: In times of climate crisis, sustainable forms of propulsion, comprehensive charging infrastructure for electromobility and safe route concepts for cyclists are needed to advance the transport […]
The building sector is considered one of the biggest polluters worldwide. But how can architecture become more sustainable? With her projects, Dorte Mandrup wants to encourage greater awareness of the […]
Circular products conserve resources and reduce emissions. Young designers in particular are facing up to the challenges of our time with designs that leave linear economic activity behind and focus […]
Start of our Green City series: In Frankfurt am Main, „Making Frankfurt“ wants to make the city more liveable, mobility-friendly and climate-friendly – an example for urban development initiatives worldwide. […]
Biodesign is paving the way for the next generation of materials, geared towards sustainability, optimum performance and healthier ecosystems. With global demand expected to generate 87 billion dollars by 2026, […]
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber is one of the most renowned climate researchers in the world. He is an advocate of limiting global warming, and considers the building […]
Our cities are dominated by buildings made of mineral building materials such as concrete and steel, whose raw materials endanger ecosystems during extraction and are very CO2-intensive in production. Low-tech […]
How will we use resources responsibly in the future? What contribution can visionary design make to this? More and more start-ups, up-and-coming designers and product developers around the world are […]
Cooling consumes up a lot of electricity and generates high CO2 emissions. Young designers have tackled the question of how energy consumption in design can be reduced right from the […]
50 years ago, the study “The Limits to Growth”, commissioned by the “Club of Rome”, was published. It became the founding document of the environmental movement and called for a […]
Under the heading “Hands on! Sustainability in Practice”, the Design Talk Conference 2021 addressed the central question of how companies can successfully master the many challenges surrounding the topics of […]
To make the world not only more sustainable, but also more beautiful, the platform “Aware” is breaking new ground. The two founders Kim Fischer and Lena Schrum explain why bans […]
Always open to encounters and suggestions: The industrial designer Peter Raacke experienced and helped shape design history in Germany. Now he passed away in Berlin at the age of 93. […]
Demolishing old buildings and replacing them with new ones is often a losing proposition from an ecological point of view, because many building materials cannot be recycled. Renovation, urban mining […]
With the transformation to a circular economy, we are facing a necessary paradigm shift, which will only succeed if everyone participates: politics, business and society. Design plays a decisive role […]
Jakob Kukula developed a buoy at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin that uses various tools and media to make the actual state of a river visible. We asked him four questions […]
Mugendi M’Rithaa is an industrial designer, professor and educator from Kenya. He has travelled, worked, and taught across the globe, and was the first African President of the World Design […]
He developed principles for ethical design under GDR conditions: obituary for the industrial designer Karl Clauss Dietel who passed away on 2 January at the age of 87. By Thomas […]
Henning Strauss has been carrying on the tradition of the family-run Engelbert Strauss company for 20 years, and ensures innovation in the brand and product areas. Only recently, the producer […]