What Design Can Do asks designers for innovative solutions in Clean Energy Challenge
Dezeen promotion: Amsterdam-based design platform What Design Can Do is asking architects and designers for proposals that can help cities transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.
The Clean Energy Challenge asks creatives to explore issues affecting urban centres on five continents, all of which require a large amount of energy. Suggested projects should re-think the way we produce, distribute and use energy in these metropolitan areas.
The problems that What Design Can Do (WDCD) has identified are sustainable housing in Delhi, getting around the city in São Paolo, food in Nairobi, waste in Mexico City, and clean energy infrastructure within limited space in Amsterdam.
Each issue has been singled out as a particular problem in that region, in close collaboration with local experts, city officials and designers. São Paolo is often choked with traffic, and Delhi has an ever-expanding population. Meanwhile food waste is a huge problem in the Kenyan capital, where the supply chain of distribution from producer to consumer could be improved.
Amsterdam is one of five cities featured in the Clean Energy Challenge
This is the third challenge that WDCD has set, following its Refugee Challenge and Climate Action Challenge. "By concentrating on these five cities, we hope to bring more focus into this new challenge," said Richard van der Laken, creative director and co-founder of WDCD.
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