We are better equipped than at any time previously to harness the problem-solving abilities of our fellow citizens through digital...
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We're excited to announce the 2023 dates of our annual festival: 12, 13 and 14 October. Mark them in you...
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“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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Can you do your shopping and plant a tree at the same time? Tred is a UK-based green debit...
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To stay ahead in an increasingly automated world, we’ll need to be more human than ever. You’ve probably heard the...
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Safetipin is on a mission to “build a world where everyone can move around without fear, especially women.” How...
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Go online, catch a blood stall, and speed up Alzheimer’s research — by years! Stall Catchers is the game that...
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We hope you’re enjoying this holiday season! Whether you’re a fan of mulled wine and sweaters or a Santa hat...
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Can you imagine a world where affordable housing would be defined according to average income, not market forces? Where neighbourhoods...
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“The Consumer Story is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions, and the Citizen Story is emerging.” Advertisement disruptor...
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Barcelona’s street vendors launched a fashion brand that’s all about “doing things right.” Six years ago, Barcelona’s street sellers...
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In the Brazilian Amazon, tiny native seeds are saving forests, communities, and the climate. Any gardener will tell you...
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We are beyond thrilled to announce that our festival of hope, surprise, and inspiration is back in Barcelona. In fact,...
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If the endangered European pond turtle still survives in Catalonia it is thanks to the Emys Foundation (Fundació Emys), which...
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Duckweed grows incredibly fast, can produce eight times more protein per hectare than soy and may be a big help...
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Solar Foods is one of those mind-blowing future-food incubator stories that can save any dinner conversation - and perhaps even...
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A social enterprise in India is bringing much needed play into children’s lives with low-cost playscapes made from scrap tyres...
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Fancy fabricating your own beehive in 30 minutes? A buzzy giant hive of makers and beekeepers have come together in...
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Need a distraction? Lots of people are turning to the world’s leading citizen science platform to help scientists without leaving...
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Forget Google! Ecosia is a search engine that uses profits to fund reforestation projects in the world's most threatened biodiversity...
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Just one step can be an insurmountable obstacle for wheelchair users. And this is where Wheelmap comes into play: the crowdsourcing...
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These low-cost wooden drones can reforest burned forests ecologically – and fast. Sowing 100 seeds per second using drones...
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A forest is emerging from the Egyptian sands to fight desertification – thanks to wastewater. No, this is not a...
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A franchise network of 'digital' toilets in Nairobi is helping to stem the spread of COVID-19 among vulnerable urban slum communities....
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Together we can fix our broken politics. Sortition Foundation want to create a real democracy of the people, by the people, and for the...
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They might not be taking clothes to space, but the AWAYTOMARS crowdsourcing collective have found a new frontier in the...
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Fashion can be a blueprint for other industries – one that’s regenerative rather than extractive, supporting life on Earth. ...
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Testing is not a motivator. But immersing yourself in a paper on civil movements, a climate change project or a...
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Five years have passed since Berlin-based Vincent Zimmer and Markus Kressler launched Kiron Open Higher Education, the first online university...
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The consumption of non-renewable resources for single use items and the amount of waste generated is profoundly unsustainable. That’s why London-based tech startup NotPla wants...
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As in every design endeavour, it all started with a problem. In fact, two of them. The first encountered problem...
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Good news: Kindness has gone viral. OK, things are definitely weird now that we're inside for the foreseeable. But on...
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If ever there was a time to get innovative, it's now. While Tuesday saw World Health Day give respect and support to...
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"Our mission is to end the sixth mass extinction. Humans have driven it and humans have the power to reverse it."...
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People will always love books. While digital media has disrupted other industries, there really is nothing like a physical book...
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Something wicked this way comes, but then a lab comes along to challenge it... Known to many as the 'Godfather...
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As our cities continue to grow, we need to get better at using our transport more efficiently. Yet to encourage...
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“I am the Amazon. Please look after me.” Thought–provoking and emotional, the stirring sound of a 22-year-old afro-indigenous eco-activist from...
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Trail cameras are an important tool in wildlife research and conservation – and you get some surprising results. What's...
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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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"We craft furniture that benefits people and planet; gifts that do good." The problem of waste is a global one...
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"We know that 'ethical' can mean very different things to different people. But for us, it's broadly about pursuing sustainability...
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Marine conservation successes are happening all over the world. Green sea turtles in Mexico are no longer listed as endangered,...
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Toast Ale is the UK’s first beer produced with bread. The award-winning craft beer uses surplus fresh bread from bakeries and sandwich...
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“We are trying to demonstrate that it is possible to build projects that combine sustainable economic activity with social inclusion...
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If somebody has a heart attack in a film, there's nearly always a crowd of people nearby – and screaming...
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"We are living in the most challenging, yet greatest years mankind has ever seen. We are all facing different struggles,...
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Who doesn't want to discover new planets? With Exoplanet Explorers, citizen scientists search for exoplanets, the planets around other stars. One...
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Plankton are a critically important food source. No plankton = No life in the ocean. Plankton also play an important...
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With Snapshot Serengeti everyone can observe animals in their natural habitat, without disturbing them – so you feel like you’re seeing...
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Black holes are found at the centre of most, if not all, galaxies. The bigger the galaxy, the bigger the...
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You don’t need to be a scientist, researcher or academic to answer our biggest global challenges. That’s the point of...
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"The more parasites you find, the more data you contribute to fighting the disease." MalariaSpot allows gaming time to be...
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Imagine if you could get a 'city' to agree to making the world more self-sufficient. A creative team of pioneers and...
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Ground control to major impact! dashboard.earth wants you to feel good while helping the planet – and be rewarded while...
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"It’s in the freely shared ideas that collisions, oddities and thrills emerge." – Mary Anne Moser, Beakerhead Co-founder Widely known...
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The things NASA want to do next are “really, really hard”. There is a misconception NASA is concerned only with...
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In today's world, platforms like AirBnb and Uber are increasingly creating connections and exchanges. Platform co-ops want to go one step further...
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Football is the biggest sport in the world with an estimated 3.5 billion fans, but as the average fan is...
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Ask anyone working in construction and they’ll tell you: the industry has been stuck using the same techniques for the...
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Ever travelled back to the future? Well, you're about to. Strap in, because we're transporting you into the heart of...
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A video shows a local football match kicking off in El Madania, Algeria; another takes us to Cotonou, Benin, to...
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Are you ready for the good, the bad and the ugly? Here's the bad news: the world is broken. The...
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Modern life feels like it can race out of control and it's hard to create positive change alone – but...
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Scott Nelson wants to fully embed a a resource-based economy inside existing market capitalism, just by issuing credit to people...
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We're big fans of simple tech that makes things better. While mobile Internet rapidly becomes a primary source of knowledge, not...
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Did you know you can change the world in your spare time, in your gym kit, your pyjamas, or simply...
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Koullouna is a box of goodness made in Lebanon that supports the local ecosystem. Through a subscription, it aims to connect...
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Language is a tricky thing: vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and numerous irregularities and inconsistencies. If that’s not enough, regional differences and...
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Tech progress is changing the world in profound ways and letting us do more with less. Industries from communications to...
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Submitted by you: Actual News reimagines the way we find, consume, interact with, pay for and follow up on news...
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Makers are inventors, creators, engineers, students or grassroot innovators who enjoy play and exploration – but they can also be people who simply want to make the...
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When it comes to climate change, a self-described "walking billboard for the glaciers" wants to prove that anyone can make a...
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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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In March 2017, Fab Lab Barcelona celebrated ten years of innovation, participation, digital manufacturing, technology and creation with a big birthday fiesta at the...
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Over the last decade Fab Lab Barcelona has helped people around the world to locally conceptualise, design, develop and fabricate, with a...
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Satellite Archeology is all about perspective. From the outer edges of the planet’s atmosphere, where sky meets space, the view...
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There is no better time to reboot our world than right now – which means there is no better time...
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As the world turns upside down and unhinged becomes the new normal, we want to provide some positivity from within...
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Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar once said: “Everything that can become a platform will become a platform.” The Curve couldn’t agree more, quoting...
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Mobile Internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of knowledge for rural populations in developing countries. But not every one...
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Submitted by you: Communities for Development was created when engineers Iñigo Ruiz Apilánez and Sandra Díaz returned from a stint...
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US election outcomes are always governed by expensive campaigns and big money, but this year the role of money has...
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Nearly one quarter of the world’s population live in off-grid communities. Without access to electricity, households grind to a halt after sunset. Work is limited,...
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The next big thing in space is really, really small. The SunCube FemtoSat is a fully functioning spacecraft equipped with a camera, radio,...
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Have you spotted cyborg vultures catching illegal fly tippers; heard of a cool way tech is bringing clean water to the...
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The sun is free, so why have the benefits of solar energy been inaccessible – until now? In South Africa,...
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The Earth's atmosphere contains mostly unexploited freshwater and Fontus is an attempt to discover these resources. The self-filling water bottle is...
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There are over 100,000 babies born with hearing impairment in India every year. If not detected at an early stage,...
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The Dominican Light Project is a new solar tech crowdfunding campaign that aims to illuminate the entire country by bringing simple solar lamps to the 10 million residents...
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Today billions of people do not have access to clean water, electricity and the Internet. Watly is a generator that aims...
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Submitted by you: Statistics show that more people want to shop sustainably than actually do, but the main barriers are knowledge and...
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Five African nations went to the polls this week in what has been dubbed Africa's #SuperSunday. Voting on the same...
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Mexico City’s masked superhero Peatónito (Little Pedestrian) has a mission - zero deaths on the roads. The safe streets crusader is delivering...
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A lot of staring at screens happens at Mobile World Congress – whether tapping away at your own rapidly depreciating handset, ogling smarter...
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Recently NASA has felt more on the radar than usual. With Major Tim Peake – the first official British astronaut...
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Submitted by you: Guided by a verse from the Quran, 'To save one life is to save all of humanity',...
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Samantha Storr keeps a low profile, but is very much the woman behind top directors Terry Gilliam, Chris Milk, Spike Jonze...
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Living under the threat of hurricanes and tsunamis, Hawaii has numerous outdoor warning sirens in place. And it’s of utmost...
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The debate on how to cope with immigration is heated and complex. Based in Germany, a country which takes more refugees than...
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Most major voting systems are unevenly weighted, prone to manipulation by and via the media, established parties and corporations, and...
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This free floating, untethered deep ocean fish habitat looks like a giant underwater hamster ball: Aquapods are giant, free range fish...
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Social media has revolutionised communications, but all the main players demand a payback in data collection and ad exposure. Malmö,...
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Every day, millions of photographs of the same landmarks are captured and posted on social media. As our glaciers are...
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I'm thrilled to introduce myself as editor-in-chief of Atlas of the Future, the new international Barcelona-London venture from Oriol Soler, Cathy...
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