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29.05.2024

Winners Redesign Everything Challenge

What Design Can Do has announced the 11 winning projects that represent the best of the Redesign Everything Challenge.


After a highly competitive process with 557 submissions and 33 nominees, the best creative climate solutions have been selected to receive the prize.

 

Winners

This year’s winners are truly redesigning everything. From local solutions to reduce waste to rethinking material flows entirely and exploring ways to restore vital ecosystems, these projects pave the way for a more circular and regenerative future. They highlight the interconnected nature of our problems and solutions.


COMMUNICATIONS | GHANA

The Revival

Fostering economic, social, and environmental well-being through community-led design, upcycling, and textile waste initiatives.


SPACES | SPAIN

A Bite of Extinction  

Rejuvenating food systems surrounding Madrid through a focus on culinary memory and strengthening biodiversity and community.


SPACES | INDIA

BreatheEasy 

Leveraging long-lost vernacular building techniques to combat air pollution in Delhi homes.


SPACES | BRAZIL

Germinatorium 

Restoring native plant populations in and around São Paulo through a nomadic nursery and community educational programmes.


PRODUCTS | UK

Looop Can 

Alleviating period poverty in the face of cultural taboos and water scarcity with an efficient cleaning kit for reusable bamboo fabric pads.


PRODUCTS  | TURKEY

ForestGuard 

Detecting forest fires at their earliest stage with sensory monitors and IoT technology, using machine learning to monitor and identify smoke accurately.


MATERIALS | USA

Reef Rocket by ReefCycle 

Restoring coastal areas with growable, modular, bio-cement reef structures as a cleaner and more durable alternative to industrial cement.


MATERIALS | MEXICO

Celium™ by Polybion 

Feeding bacteria with fruit waste to cultivate Celium™, a premium customisable cellulose bio-textile that can be produced at scale.


MATERIALS | USA

Cellsense 

Developing alternatives to beads in the form of scalable bio-embellishments while eliminating microplastics and unethical labour from the industry.


MATERIALS | FRANCE

Electric Skin 

Shifting industry paradigms by developing growable and compostable electronics from bacteria that naturally produce electrical proteins.


MATERIALS | UK

Co-Culturing Rituals – Biosoothe

Researching the material possibilities of micro-algae and bacterial cellulose with potential applications in wound healing, skin repair and skin care.  


What’s next

All 11 winning teams will enter an accelerator program to further develop their ideas and showcase their projects at the upcoming design festival, WDCD Live Amsterdam.