The first week of the Dezeen 15 digital festival celebrating Dezeen's 15th birthday saw Yasmeen Lari call for "a new activism among architects" and Winy Maas state "it's okay to lose a commission" if the client resists sustainable proposals.
The festival will see a total of 15 creatives present ideas for how to change the world over the next 15 years. Running from 1 to 19 November, it will feature a different manifesto and live interview each weekday. See the line-up here.
Read on for some of the highlights so far:

Es Devlin calls for "code of conduct" for designers
Day one: artist and designer Es Devlin kicked off the three-week festival by speaking live from the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow.
Her manifesto, written especially for Dezeen 15, called for trees to replace cars in cities by 2036. She also called for architects and designers to sign "a code of conduct" similar to the Hippocratic Oath signed by doctors promising "to do no harm to the planet as they practice."
"I've observed in my colleagues that there is already a burgeoning sense that this is the way we want to practice," she said in a live video interview with Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs.
"I don't think we want the burden of having done harm on our conscience."

Winy Maas says "it's okay to lose a commission"
Day two: delivering sustainable buildings sometimes means losing work to rivals, according to architect Win...