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.