Design for Good Celebrates the End of Cycle 1: A Milestone Event

Photographer: Ezzidin Alwan

Last week, we held our End of Cycle 1 festivities – an event to celebrate our hardworking participants, who, together, have successfully concluded a year of collaborative innovation on United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6:Clean Water and Sanitation.

On Thursday, 15 June, Ben Sheppard, Partner at McKinsey and Chair of Design for Good, presented an overview of Design for Good: past, present and future. We were also joined by Frank Kalff, of Amref and WaterStarters, who shared his experience working with the teams on the WaterStarters project and illustrated the collaborative process that takes place when trying to bring a project to fruition.

On Friday, 16 June, we were fortunate enough to have Teman Evans, Global Chief of Design at General Mills, and Ximena O'Reilly, Global Head of Visual Identity and Design at Nestlé, join us for an informative and insightful Q&A session, graciously hosted by Sean Carney, former Chief Design Officer and Business Leader Healthcare Transformation Services at Philips, around design past and present and career progression.

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who attended the event, both virtually and in person. Your attendance was invaluable, and it was fantastic to have you join us in this celebration.

We also could not be more thankful to each and every one of our participants. Your dedication, drive and desire to do good shines through in every single project idea we have received from you.

Thank you to the Royal College of Art, who hosted us for this event, providing a beautiful event space and great hospitality.