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The World Design Cities Conference (WDCC) 2022 was held in Shanghai from September 15 to 18, the city seeks to develop into a global design center. On September 15, with the support of the UCCN Secretariat, the Unesco Creative Cities Summit in Shanghai highlighted the impact...

From July 18 to 24, 2022, the city of Santos, Brazil, hosted the XIV Annual Conference of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (CCN). The Conference brought together delegates from nearly 300 cities in approximately 90 countries, under the theme "Creativity as a path to equality"..

In these days of gridlocked cities, the climate challenge and a growing penchant for slow tourism, the trusty bicycle is back in fashion. From 8 November 2022, the Cité du design invites you to discover over 70 bikes at the very forefront of technology and design in a brand new..

When Bubu Ogisi got out of the car, she said: “I will have to leave in 30 minutes!”. I guess we made our disappointment quite visible as she added almost immediately: “I should be able to change my train ticket, though”. Indeed, we spent hours together, at the Cité du Design,...

Human Cities_ SMOTIES – Creative works with small and remote places is looking for an experienced author/ journalist to be the main contributing author for the final publication of our SMOTIES project.

We met Brian Studak in Saint-Etienne as he is supervising the final setting up of At Home. His design studio, Plaid, is in charge of the scenography of this major exhibition of La Biennale Internationale Design de Saint-Etienne which takes place from April 6, to July 31th 2022.

When images represent, mediate and do realities, we need to critically reflect on our most common (Western) archives—about the way narratives have been invented and to whom and what they are mutually linked. With the design research project "New Weather TV", designer Simone...