December 23, 2022
The Women Take the Lead Network’s second international workshop offered a space for reflection, sharing and support (Photo: Rowan El Shimi // DEDI)

Dare to lead like a woman

Being part of a network makes you feel like you’re not alone. The 22 young women leaders praised their mutual support when they reunited during a workshop in Cairo
February 1, 2023
The screening of the film Immuto at DEDI is followed by a discussion hosted by Ahmed Yassin, co-founder of Banlastic Egypt and hosting Social entrepreneur and former Minister of Environment Dr. Laila Iskandar and researcher Mohamed Younis. (Photo: Courtesy of Banlastic Egypt)

Plastic on film

February 28, 2023
DEDI Green Gate Open Call Deadline Extended

Open Call: Green Gate 2023

DEDI Green Gate aims to be part of exploring and promoting solutions through dialogue between Egyptian and Danish designers, entrepreneurs, professionals, researchers, and students working in the fashion field and concerned with a more sustainable approach to fashion.
April 2, 2023
Bilingual Design for Circularity open call

Open Call: Design for Circularity

Are you an Egyptian furniture designer or design student looking for an opportunity to deepen your knowledge and know-how of sustainable and circular furniture design?
April 11, 2023
DEDI Green Gate Sustainable fashion participants Denmark Egypt

Meet the green fashion innovators

DEDI Green Gate 2023 is well underway – with 24 selected green fashion entrepreneurs, scholars and innovators  from Denmark and Egypt are set to meet, exchange and be inspired throughout the year.
May 5, 2023
Dialogue circle after 'The Recycling Myth' screening in Creativa Hub Ismailia (Photo: Rowan El Shimi // DEDI)

Green films on tour

Nine film screenings and nine dialogue circles took place in nine cities all over Egypt this spring.
May 24, 2023
Design for Circularity participants 2023

Meet the eco furniture makers

After four successful rounds of Bilingual Design – bringing Egyptian and Danish designers together to design and produce furniture, this year we are excited to announce that the project is taking on a new challenge which is to focus on Design for Circularity. Meet the participants here.
September 13, 2023
DEDI Green Gate participants explore the students’ end of year exhibition led by associate professor Else Skjøld of the Royal Danish Academy. (Photo: Rowan El Shimi // DEDI)

Green is the new black

How can we transform an industry plagued with a massive carbon footprint into one that inspires people without harming the environment? The 23 Danish and Egyptian green fashion designers, entrepreneurs and students explore this question together in Copenhagen.
October 22, 2023
Professor Nicolai De Gier, of the Royal Danish Academy, shows participants the famous “Chair Room” at the Academy

Closed loop design

The ten Egyptian young furniture designers are on a week-long study trip in Copenhagen as part of DEDI’s Design for Circularity program – in collaboration with the Royal Danish Academy, Designdustry and Pinocchio Furniture. The program brings together these designers with Danish Master’s students enrolled in the ‘Furniture Design – Products, Materials and Contexts’ course at the academy to be immersed in both Danish and Egyptian design traditions to inspire them in their own designs of a stool which will be produced throughout the project. In its fourth iteration, the program this year is taking on a new challenge: to create their designs according to the principles of circularity.
November 13, 2023
DEDI Green Gate 2023 participants choose materials during a workshop in Green Fashion in Menoufia. (Photo: Rowan El Shimi // DEDI)

Connection to material

DEDI Green Gate participants meet once more in Cairo to explore traditional crafts, community engagement and upscaling social enterprises.