Design is a tool, the world our playground. Design is more than just form and function—it's a way to shape reality, challenge perspectives, and create meaningful impact.

Whether through digital experiences, motion design, UX, branding, or speculative futures, design empowers us to reimagine the possible. WDTW is organised by the Leeuwarden School of Design, the bachelor programmes Teacher of Fine Arts and Teacher of Theatre, and the master programme Health Innovation. 

WDTW was first organised in 2022 under the name You x Design x The World. From its 2024 edition onwards, it has been known as We x Design x The World.

Locations

Rengerslaan 1 and Rengerslaan 10 

Leeuwarden 

The Netherlands 

Email 

contact@wdtw.nl 

The World

The World

We design because the world we live in is complex, interconnected, and under pressure. Socially, technologically, ecologically, economically. Design cannot solve everything, but it always takes a position.

WDTW is rooted in the belief that education, research, and practice should engage with real contexts and real consequences. The world we refer to is not abstract or distant: it is the world students will work in, shape, and be shaped by. Local and global. Physical and digital. Human and systemic.

By bringing work into the open, WDTW creates space to ask difficult questions:

  • What kind of world are we contributing to?
  • What roles do designers play, and which should they refuse?
  • How can design create positive impact?
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