A set of games and playful activities that build more inclusive, welcoming classroom communities, which will
help children with migrant backgrounds find strength in their cultural identities and feel more connected in an actively respectful multicultural learning environment.

Every year, the Global Children’s Designathon brings children aged 8 to 12 together to ideate, sketch, and prototype solutions to some of the most pressing challenges of our time - from clean energy to biodiversity, and from circular design to food and climate action.

To Overcome is a participatory design project developed for “The Imperfect Human” exhibition at the Dolhuys Museum in Haarlem. It engages children with diverse physical and mental disabilities across different cultural and socio-economic contexts, including participants from the Netherlands, Uganda, and the Philippines.

By positioning the children as designers of their own responses to adversity, To Overcome offers audiences a perspective grounded in the children’s own viewpoints—highlighting resilience, imagination, and agency while fostering empathy and understanding.