Unveiling of D-RAIN, a Designathon invention, during the Co-Creating the City conference at the WeMakeThe.City festival.

Cultivating children’s potential as changemakers.
Read our paper on rethinking how society sees children’s role in shaping the future.

THNK interview with Emer and Anne (THNK alumni) about Designathon Works and unleashing the power of a million innovative minds.

Designathon children presenting their invention to Mark Rutte, Dutch Prime Minister, during the Amsterdam International Water Week 2017.

On 11th of November 2017, 600 children from cities all around the world, worked in parallel to design and develop solutions and innovative concepts around the water issues.

On the 1st of March 2017, five elementary schools and two high schools joined our first Designathon School Challenge: Waste Sorting at Schools.

Lotta Crok (8 yr) became the first junior bicycle mayor of the world. Her idea is to make public transport bicycles child-friendly.

Designathon Works is from now also active in Croatia. Watch the video of the first designathon workshop in Croatian classroom.

The fourth edition of the Global Children's Designathon will be hosted in 25 cities around the world on November 3rd 2018.

Designathon children sharing their ideas and thoughts on creativity at the SingualrityU Summit 2017.

Designathon Works is one of the 29 Expo Live Global Innovators of the World Expo Dubai 2020!

Dopper Foundation and Designathon Works are challenging Dutch elementary school children to come up with creative solutions on preventing the use of single-use plastic. Visit the website (Dutch only).

Since 2017, Bugaboo have supported Designathon Works with high quality scrap materials, a donations and volunteers. In 2018, they are organizing their own in-house Designathon where children of employees as well as children from outside Bugaboo will be invited to design together. As innovators and designers, Bugaboo know that a good idea can make a difference in people's lives.

This report shows that children care for our planet, are aware of water-related issues, believe these issues are pressing and offer concrete solutions to solve them.

Shammy Jacob, founder of New World Fight Club and our GCD host in Chennai, India talking about Designathon methodology.

Our paper: Co-design with children on societal challenges reveals their empathy and radical innovations.

Written for IDC conference in Stanford.