What Design Can Do (WDCD) has announced the eleven winners of the Redesign Everything Challenge, celebrating some of the world’s most creative climate solutions. Initiated in partnership with the IKEA Foundation, the competition now enters an exciting new phase as finalists gain access to a €5.000 award and development training package to help scale their ideas and expand their impact on the world.
The winning projects showcase the best in climate innovation to create a more circular society.
Tasked with selecting the winners was an international jury comprising ten leading experts in design, climate action and entrepreneurship, including Sunny Dolat (founder, Nest Collective), René van Geer (Co-Founder, Secrid), Daniel Freitag (founder, Freitag), and Emy Bensdorp (founder, Claybens). Deliberating together both online and in-person, the jury selected eleven winners from a shortlist of 33 high-potential nominees. In the end, the winning projects won over the Jury by exceeding expectations across the competition’s four criteria: impact, design and creativity, feasibility and scalability, and the strength of their team and network.
“The winners of the Redesign Everything Challenge exemplify the potential of design to address climate impacts. These projects not only provide innovative solutions to climate issues but also inspire others to reimagine what’s possible,” says WDCD’s co-founder and creative director Richard van der Laken. “The creativity and dedication shown by these teams impressed the Jury and the entire team at What Design Can Do.”


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ForestGuard focuses on detecting fires through advanced IoT technology, the system can detect fires at their earliest stages, even before visible.

Reconstruction of biodiversity and ties between farmers and neighbourhoods through Flavour Diversity.

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