The London Interdisciplinary School is a really interesting new university in the UK, led by a group of academics, entrepreneurs...
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Projects
“Use whatever god-given talent that you’ve got and just do something.” Magid Magid, a Somali-British race and climate justice...
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At the opposite end of poverty tourism you can find Unseen Tours, a social enterprise that supports vulnerably housed individuals...
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Little Amal is a little girl on a BIG journey. The giant puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian girl is journeying...
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“It is important to tell our stories as refugees, to express ourselves, to be heard.” David Thok Koang, 16 years...
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Agriledger is turning the supply chain upside down. Now, smallholder mango farmers in Haiti can sell their produce directly in...
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As Neil Gaiman wrote, ‘a town isn’t a town without a bookstore.’ So, in the age of internet shopping, what’s...
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Fashion has always set out to be bold and original. But real creativity comes from new, different, underrepresented voices. ...
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Fashion Minority Report is a call for measurable change in the offices of fashion brands across the UK. What...
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The world is on the move, our climate is changing, a pandemic keeps us apart. So there's never been a...
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By now you will know of Extinction Rebellion, the global movement changing climate action. So what's next? "Troublemakers change...
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Imagine going from 30 to 80 years old in ten minutes by slipping on an age simulation suit and going...
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Not to be confused with a building or wedding venue, Hackney Wick Town Hall is an event that opens up conversations....
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The creative producers behind WADUP are making podcasts with teens across the world. Meet generation podcast. "Our ultimate goal...
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If you feel that formal education doesn't hold the answers to a sustainable future, take a few tips from Enrol Yourself...
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Long-lasting, locally made, affordable classic designs: this isn’t just a beautiful idea, but the reality of Community Clothing. The...
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For aspiring chefs without a Caribbean friend on hand to reveal the secrets of the most authentic Creole cuisine or...
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Cooking for someone is quite possibly the oldest and most elemental expression of love, solidarity and caring. Community – or...
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Quite literally raising the bar on anti-knife crime campaigns, Steel Warriors are using surrendered blades in the best possible way. ...
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Currently only 30% of roles in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are held by women. In...
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Do you know who made your clothes; who grew the cotton, spun the threads, dyed the fabric and sewed them...
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“No matter what we look like, where we live, or how much money we have, getting sick reminds us that...
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Rape threats, racist slurs and being followed home are just some of the things that women and girls are subjected...
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Millennials may or may not save the world; only time will tell. But forget labelling Gen Y as saviours or slackers,...
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The aptly-named Songs & Smiles brings music, fun and friendship to children aged 0-4, their grown-ups, and older adults in...
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Want to see what London's Abbey Road looked like in 1969, explore LGBT+ life in the sixties or map the...
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Florence is a 95 year old partially sighted widow who used to be a keen tennis player. The RAF veteran was...
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Crack open the sherry, gin and Pimms, because Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ is on the sound system; Hetty has donned her...
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Songwriting grannies, robot sidekicks, savvy social media training, wild swimming, hip hop-picking and hen road shows; what does it mean...
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"We craft furniture that benefits people and planet; gifts that do good." The problem of waste is a global one...
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Inspired by his own story, Stephen Addison created BoxUp Crime to change young people’s lives through the power of boxing....
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"Because we might not have friends or family in abundance who already work in the creative industries, we're having to...
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"It's just as important listening to these stories as it is fairy tales." Today there’s an increasing recognition of the...
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Are you a creator focused on social change? Or a hub of art-ivists whose work benefits your community? CultureFutures is...
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At its simplest GoodGym is a community of runners that combines getting fit with doing good deeds, building better communities through...
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The Media Trust believes in the power to change lives through, as the name suggests... media. Whether working to help...
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Happiful is a monthly UK magazine that aims to create a healthier, happier and more sustainable society. Their first mission is...
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Submitted by you: Based in Israel, Amos Meiri and the 30+ strong team at Colu are helping people to support...
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The Last Stand is a funny project. But at its heart is a great idea... healing London's divisions. The street...
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We've had vultures with GoPro cameras strapped to their heads and pigeons with backpacks. Always ones to follow the crowd, now it's...
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If there’s one political topic that has dominated our collective social consciousness in the last decade, it’s terrorism. Terrorism and...
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A UK publication is on a mission to convey that it’s ok for men to talk about sensitive things and...
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Design education is being given a radical redesign by extreme experience designer – and Atlas FutureHero – Nelly Ben Hayoun. The...
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In 2015 roughly 36 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS, with about 70% of them...
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What if the darkest social and environmental clouds really did turn up silver linings? What if the United Nation’s Sustainable...
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Chicken Town have come up with a recipe to reduce obesity in school children by offering an alternative to the...
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For the first time ever there is a clinic which focuses specifically on the body and caring for it after...
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The number of homeless people in New York City’s shelters peaked at 60,670 in January 2015 – and this figure only...
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It bothered designer and engineer Ross Atkin that while handheld devices, such as smartphones, tablets and PDAs, now give us highly customised...
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Almost every city in the developed world now has a housing market crisis. Homes are increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and unhealthy....
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Global Breakfast Radio aggregates local radio stations from across the world, constantly streaming broadcasts from wherever the sun is rising...
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Barcelona-based studio Noumena have used their collective backgrounds in design, research and education to develop a data-collecting drone that maps the...
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Self-driving robots look set to shake up the delivery business, worth a massive US$4 billion globally. And it's Skype who came up...
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Amidst the mohawks and psychedelic shop fronts of London’s infamous Camden Town, the legendary Roundhouse boasts a rock’n’roll heritage stretching...
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In October 2015 four disabled British children had a remarkable new experience – they were fitted with orthoses manufactured purely...
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Agender definition: Without a gender (nongendered, genderless, agender, neutrois); moving between genders or with a fluctuating gender identity (genderfluid); third gender or...
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Cultural identity and what it means to view oneself as self and the other as other, is so intricately complex...
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The self-published DIY ‘zine’ has always been the domain of those in search of alternatives. Its DIY nature eschews the...
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Healthcare is underpinned by what’s sometimes defined as the ‘biomedical model’: the system responds when people are sick (with treatment)...
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Honestly, we all know the Elon Musks of the world, and we know the amazing work they’re doing, like the...
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Africa is growing at a rate never seen before, and everyone wants a piece of the action, but not everyone...
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We’re struggling to house people sustainably. Rents have gone crazy high in cities from San Francisco to London, housing is...
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IBM's game show-winning Watson is a supercomputer like no other. It can take data from any of the digital sources...
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"It is our responsibility to enable every young person to make to learn and learn to make," says David Sengeh, Global...
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Protected by armed guards, the last male northern white rhino’s valuable horn has been sawn off as black market rhino...
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Around 80% of global blindness is preventable or curable. The biggest problem is available not treatment options, but not being...
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Today’s highly competitive job market in the UK can make knowing which career path to follow difficult, so gap years...
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A new icon is due to disrupt the Rotterdam skyline when it starts construction in 2025. A take on the...
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Every day, women across the world are insulted, ignored or assaulted simply because of their gender. In 2012 award-winning journalist...
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We may look back on 30 July 2015 as the start of something important – the day Ethereum went live....
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The Pope is my new hero – my socially progressive, secularist, humanist new hero. How can you not love a man...
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