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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RESOLVE is on a mission to tackle social issues through process-led design. What are the emotions that your city...
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As you know, last month we held Fixing the Future Festival here in Barcelona and it was a blast! There...
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Fixing the Future Festival, held on 16 & 17 of September at CCCB (Barcelona), is an all-encompassing experience, with talks,...
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Calling all activists, creatives, educators, organisers, troublemakers, lawyers, collectives and communities sparking just climate action in Spain. We want to...
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Architects in Beirut are using Miyawaki reforestation to return a polluted river to people and nature and “turn EGO into...
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CitieS-Health is making citizen science people-centred from research questions to solutions. Several citizen science projects have evaluated environmental parameters...
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“I ended up taking surfing as my coping skill because every time I am in the water, I take the...
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This living breathing playground harnesses the power of play to generate clean air in one of Europe’s most polluted cities....
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“It’s possible at a neighbourhood or city scale for us to completely overturn how change happens” Imandeep Kaur, CIVIC SQUARE....
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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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A suburb in San José granted citizenship to pollinators and declared itself a sanctuary for bees. Welcome to Curridabat. ...
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Some sixty volunteers from the urban Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (uBMS) have been tracking lepidoptera in 27 parks and gardens around...
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The B-Lines project supports the small wild inhabitants of the British landscape by forging new pathways and regenerating an interconnected...
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This art collective serves society through the revival of inner city spaces and creates community spirit reflected in urban art....
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LA Green Grounds makes the world more edible one garden at a time, and in doing so turns urban food...
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Brooklyn Grange Farm is one of the largest rooftop farms in the world, and from high up in New York...
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Cycloponics breathes new life into France’s underground car parks where they farm organic mushrooms, endives and microgreens right under the...
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Flowers, vegetables, tea plants, fragrant herbs and fruit trees blossom next to the train platforms used daily by hundreds of...
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15 things that have given me joy as Editor of Atlas of the Future Yes, it’s officially time for me...
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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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The beautiful game is embracing its green side. In the ultimate upcycle, a global architecture studio is using airplane bodies to...
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Imagine being able to grow and make almost anything. Well, you can. That’s what this ‘Fab’ global initiative is...
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A new circular model of housing entirely created with reusable and recyclable materials has taken form in Italy thanks to...
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A Kenyan entrepreneur has taken discarded plastic and turned it into bricks that can hold twice the weight of concrete...
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Ever travelled by poo power, perhaps even your own? These buses are powered by the fuel of the future. ...
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In Colombia, sustainable affordable homes are being built on solid grounds... coffee grounds. We love a project that solves...
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The first of its kind, La Marjal is more than a park. Floodable, it acts as a retention basin for...
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Imagine if voting was more representative of what people really wanted? That‘s exactly what is happening in Argentina thanks to these...
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In an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
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What links Arcade Fire, lab-grown chicken burgers, the rare white Arabian oryx, masks made from plastic waste and the circular economy?...
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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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A new meeting place is weaving a culture of cycling into the fabric of everyday life in Tunisia – with women cyclists...
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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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A group of activists led by a 'Water Warrior' are on a mission to improve the lives of Detroiters by...
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One of Detroit’s most blighted inner city blocks is being transformed into an eco-village, led by a powerhouse resident with...
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The current face of architecture is not an accurate reflection of what our cities look like. One woman in Detroit...
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Aware that Detroiters of African descent have never lacked creativity or entrepreneurial zeal, one Detroiter wants to provide the one...
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“The purpose of 'A Human Atlas' is really simple – to inspire a new generation to co-author their lives, not in...
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Silver Sharers is a sharing scheme with a heart that matches homeowners over-50 in London with flatmates, providing long-term and...
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Traditional building materials are destroying our planet, it’s time to readdress the way we build our future. This is the...
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Driven by a firm commitment to create greener cities and a more sustainable future, Urban Green Club designs, manufactures and...
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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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"We envision a world where cities recognise their interdependence with the world’s forests and use their political, economic, and cultural...
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Games can transform how we live, work and play. This UN programme proves how people of all backgrounds and ages can show...
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This is the sort of rapid response the world needs right now. On the Monday of 3 February 2020, something...
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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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Rape threats, racist slurs and being followed home are just some of the things that women and girls are subjected...
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Could 3D-printing help to tackle homelessness and provide affordable housing for those who need it most? Rural families in...
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Plastic bottle pavilions and urban-mined glasses, 'Polli-Brick' and 'Eco-Morph' and the waste that it slashes, upcycled film theatres and recycled...
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A major plastic polluter is giving its garbage a second life by using it to construct much-needed infrastructure. Philippine company San Miguel...
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Something important is happening in Cleveland: one of America’s poorest cities has a radical plan to remake itself. Anyone who...
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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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In a sea of pharmacies, stationery sellers and coffee shops, one social enterprise in a swarming Lewisham shopping centre, London,...
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In the UK, buildings, transport and energy account for over two thirds of our carbon dioxide emissions. What if there...
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In Argentina, the term villa miseria is used to describe the impoverished shanty towns that exist within large urban settlements. And in Buenos...
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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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A video shows a local football match kicking off in El Madania, Algeria; another takes us to Cotonou, Benin, to...
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One person’s toxic e-waste dump is another’s treasure workshop. That's why a Ghana-based architect duo have launched AMP (Agbogbloshie Makerspace...
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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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Do you know what an open source restaurant is? Located in Barcelona's Poblenou’s 22@ neighborhood, Leka is the first of its...
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“The goal of the economy should be to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet.” In...
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What if you want to assess a proposed development's contribution to the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainability? A new...
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Meet Cameroon's protector of the oceans using plastic waste to build eco-canoes. The charismatic Ismaël Essome Ebone is the young entrepreneur...
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A festival in a coastline settlement in Lagos is challenging the notion of art in the white cube. Iwaya Community Art...
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India has the highest number of undernourished people in the world, but at the same time sees 40% of all...
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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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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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Located in Bermondsey, London inside an old school and made from recycled salvage from a local theatre company, decommissioned bio...
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Submitted by: Skateistan In the quiet port town of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, over 1000 children work and live on the beaches,...
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Life used to pause with the setting sun in the bleak Azraq refugee camp in Jordan's remote and harsh desert. But...
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Submitted by: Skateistan Khrousar Thmey ('New Family' in Cambodian) is a school for children who are deaf or blind living in...
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Street HeArt Africa brings life to walls in underprivileged communities. "We use our art as a way to connect people and...
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If Antoni Gaudí were around today he would surely relish the advances 3D printing technologies are bringing to architecture, art...
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'Forthright: Stronger than a weapon' – straight forward, direct – is a book and ongoing project that follows different artists in...
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Submitted by you: Nigerian architect 'wole Olabanji believes that everyone deserves a nice home. However, most people in the African...
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Growing up in Brazil, Luciana Oliveira was often exposed to the reality of the hardworking waste picker at an early...
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During Christmas 2003, computer scientist Frédéric Mazzella couldn’t get from Paris to his family home a few hours away. He...
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A lifelong boater and self-professed ‘beach bum’ wants to stop virgin plastic from entering the ocean ever again. And help...
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What does the future of business look like? How will developments from big data, artificial intelligence and the internet of things to driverless vehicles, 3D printing and synthetic biology...
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From plant pots to art installations, the humble plastic bottle has been recycled in a wide variety of ways. However,...
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Every day, sites like Netflix, Spotify and Flipboard tap into the power of data to provide recommendations that make life ‘easier’,...
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Games are everywhere, from the daily commute and at work, to in the pub over a pint. They forge friendships,...
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Dubai wants to be the world leader in 3D printing – and the 'City of Gold' has a mega-plan. Their 'Office of 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 world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
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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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Rail. Air. Road. Water. None of these four methods of transportation are efficient economically, environmentally and time-wise when it comes...
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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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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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Built on floating barrels in the lagoon heart of Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, the eco-friendly Makoko Floating School addresses the...
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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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There is nothing more effective than healthy competition to spur innovators onwards and, in the case of Drones for Good,...
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The popular 1990s' computer game SimCity gave people the freedom to design and build their own metropolis. Today the ‘make your...
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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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As part of a family that owned a moving company in New Jersey for more than ninety years, Adam Lowy...
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There are approximately 130 unregulated matatu lines in Nairobi. Cheap, convenient, popular – and often decorated with disco balls and...
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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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In March the French government decreed that all new buildings in commercial zones must construct gardens or solar panels on...
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Submitted by you: Getting its name from the Greek for 'clay', Pylos introduces a more ecological approach to housing using soil...
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The Human Rights Foundation is a small operation with an annual budget of $3.9 million, yet it has chosen to...
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Domestic workers’ pay and conditions are among the worst in the US. A quarter are paid below the minimum wage. Few receive...
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Latin America’s poorest slums and housing estates often lie at the margins of urban economies and social welfare systems as...
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Many of Melbourne’s 70,000 trees are approaching the end of their useful life due to a combination of age and...
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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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An unlikely hero – the oyster – is set to revitalise New York City's polluted waterways. To improve the city's harbour’s...
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Back in June 2011, civil unrest proved its ability to act as a catalyst for political change and amid bloody...
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The digital age loves maps, but not everywhere in the world is represented equally. Digital survey application tool Map Your...
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Most of the veg we eat starts life underground, but usually pops up into the sunshine to complete the process....
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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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Most major voting systems are unevenly weighted, prone to manipulation by and via the media, established parties and corporations, and...
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One billion people live in around 200,000 slums worldwide, half of them are wet slums located next to the water and are...
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With a population of almost 120 million, Mexico is the most populous Spanish speaking country in the world. Greater Mexico...
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Beside a lake in the Netherlands is a simple structure which transforms the relationship between technology and nature and could...
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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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Every day, millions of photographs of the same landmarks are captured and posted on social media. As our glaciers are...
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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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A Dutch designer has reimagined the roads of tomorrow, designing a ‘Smart Highway’ to make them safer while saving money...
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Launched in September 2014, the aim of Programá tu Futuro (Programme Your Future) is to enable schoolchildren over the age...
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It is estimated that more than two billion people are homeless or live in slums. Urban3D is a São Paulo-based...
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To give it its full – if unwieldy – title, the Núcleo de Empreendedorismo da USP (Entrepreneurship Nucleus of the University of São...
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