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Celebrating Top Ideas from the Nike Design With Grind Challenge
Exploring five innovative ideas with the potential to help create a more circular world
I want to see us mitigate climate change in Sierra Leone. I'm working with schoolchildren to see how we can plant trees in different communities in the Western Area of Sierra Leone.
I'm working to help a restaurant here in Cairo reduce food waste resulting from a type of disposable dishware they use to serve customers’ food.
I'm currently investigating the intersection of blockchain and circular design/economy.
I want to create global design solutions that can transform and improve the way we think about, engage with and explore digital media.
I want to build makerspaces and equip, enable, and empower underserved communities.
I want to help women of color who are dealing with maternal mental health issues recover through journaling.
I want to reduce garment waste and re-define the relationship of clothing to steer it towards "compassionate" fashion in the UAE.
I look forward to enhancing the resources for the mainstreaming of out of school adolescent girls.
I want to see every child going to school regularly.
I am working to end childhood obesity by supporting health training in underprivileged areas.
I want to enable rural and off grid regions to have access to efficient, affordable and sustainable bio gas solutions for their cooking and lighting needs.
I’m working to make business licensing and permitting easy for Detroit’s entrepreneurs.
We want to contribute to a more moral and responsible climate within the design of digital services.
I want to reduce the impact of plastics in the world
I want to help other friends/young people to fight for better jobs.
I want to see more equality and inclusion of women and minorities in creative industries.
I want to make the research process and its outcomes accessible to all those who have communication disabilities such as deaf-blindness, autism, intellectual impairment etc.
I want to demonstrate personal creative expression through advancements in technologies.
I’d like us to rally around simplifying the government and making it more customer-centric.
I want to create a trauma-informed community.
I want to see schools that value and support art and design educators and recognize their value in today's society.
I hope to see people getting better at understanding each other.
I want to build a computer and ed resource centre and bring potable water to more villages.
More Good Stuff +
Karlos Marshall, now a Forbes 30 Under 30 awardee, represents The Conscious Connect—working to fix urban "book deserts"—at the Early Childhood Innovation Prize winner workshop.
Over 200 people attend the OpenIDEO Berlin Chapter's Design With Grind event—one of 35+ events worldwide—discussing ways to make the circular economy accessible and actionable.
OpenIDEO's Scott Shigeoka leads a cheer with facilitators who guided 300 fellow residents through a sustainability design workshop in the Innovate Climate Action in Sunnyvale Challenge.
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