Designers from ten high-profile companies have joined forces to help improve access to clean water and sanitation across the globe as part of the Design for Good consortium. CEO Fazilat Damani shares five of the most promising.
Design for Good (DfG) was originally launched in 2022 as a non-profit alliance of ten businesses from different industries, including tech companies Microsoft and Philips and London's Royal College of Art.
The alliance also includes food corporations Nestlé and PepsiCo, which have previously been named among the five most plastic-polluting companies in the world.
Working in two-year cycles, designers from each of these companies are donating their time and skills pro bono, collaborating in teams to tackle one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out by the United Nations.
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"The sustainability challenges identified by the United Nations are too large to be addressed by any single institution," DfG co-founder Ben Sheppard told Dezeen.
"We are delighted to see many of the world's leading companies, including direct competitors, uniting as part of the DfG alliance in order to have an increased chance of making lasting, sustainable change together."
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