Chile-based designer Margarita Talep has developed her own eco-friendly packaging as a substitute for plastic. Part of the problem causing the...
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The Fabricademy program is training a global community of transdisciplinary designers to propose new ways of making, designing, wiring and...
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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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We’re overjoyed to announce that ‘Fixing the future’ is back. And this year it's bigger, better and faster – because...
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For the past year Atlas of the Future has been excited by creative and cultural projects with a social mission....
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Because it's not all about science and tech you know, we've been on a mission to map creative and cultural...
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If you've taken part in a morning rave, group run or public art experience; if you've joined a campaign to...
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Imagine if you could click a button and be able to grow and make almost anything. That’s what Fab City is all about:...
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If you've taken part in a morning rave, group run or public art experience; if you've joined a campaign to...
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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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Did you know you don't always have to cook with food? As part of our new CultureFutures project we’ve been...
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“Slow Factory is infiltrating, challenging and enhancing traditional disciplinary education.” Access to good education is vital for a healthy...
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Run by refugees, Talking Hands is the Italian design & fashion studio where art and storytelling create employment opportunities, tear...
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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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From scratch to scrap, this circular restaurant is turning foodies into sustainability champions. But don’t ask them to serve seafood....
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“It’s not about the process creating a whole bunch of prototypes, it’s about the process actually being a vehicle to...
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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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Darling it's better Down where it's wetter Without fishing nets Over the past 10 years, humans have produced more...
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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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Being in the spotlight is a chance to get green, seen. The glamorous dresses and stylish suits that grace...
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? “We are not alone in the universe. The irrational thing is to believe that we are.” – Juan Insua Mars...
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Drinking coffee out of cups made from coffee – so simple, so evident, so good. Kaffeeform is a sustainable material...
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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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Meet the Icelandic designer turning animal skin and bones into food packaging to get us talking. And it is. ...
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Marmalade, Grand Marnier, Cointreau, and now biogas... a Spanish city famous for its oranges is embracing the circular economy to create...
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Water is getting the digital treatment. Within a network of innovative control towers in Spain, people are coming together with...
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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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Home to endangered marine turtles that come to its shores to lay their eggs, Ghana has a rich fauna and...
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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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Boomera works with Brazil’s waste pickers and big brands to find new creative uses for plastic that normally ends up...
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We may not give much thought to the insoles that line our shoes – but we use them every day....
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The problem of fast fashion is – by its nature – accelerating quickly. In the UK alone, people are purchasing five...
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Ready, set… STOP. This team of planners and pickers are putting an end to plastic pollution in South East Asia....
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Who says scraps are useless? Since 2016, the NGO FABSCRAP has recycled and resold more than 200 tons of textile waste...
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“There is no question that plastic pollution is one of the most pressing problems of our time – and it’s...
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Can bacteria generated from the kombucha drink industry be re-processed into a new, more sustainable, vegan, leather-like material? For ethical...
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Upcycling broken fast fashion jewels and reducing waste within the fashion industry, specifically fashion jewellery. The ReJewel Collective, founded in...
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“I have a deep desire to make Africa a better place.” From its volcanoes to its tropical rainforests, Cameroon is...
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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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Have you been naughty or nice this year? Good news: you can redeem yourselves! As the bumpy, transformative, but never-boring...
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"Not everybody wants to work for money on a platter. Sometimes we do things just because they matter." An economist,...
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Blockchain isn't just about finance and Bitcoin, but when Jessi Baker started Provenance that wasn’t the case. That’s why her idea was considered...
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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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Innovative outdoor brand Houdini Sportswear is creating sportswear so pure that you can eat it. Based in Sweden, with a passion...
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When you find yourselves somewhere between Gotham City Police HQ and Blade Runner’s Leon’s Hotel chatting to a Westworld sexbot you...
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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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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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What if your business didn’t have to buy any lamps or lights and could just pay for the light you...
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Using the Internet and Raspberry Pis, rather than prayer and scripture, with software replacing rules and doctrine, the unMonastery collective borrows from...
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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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In the world’s most northern orphanage on the heart-shaped little Arctic island of Uummannaq, Greenlandic kids used to enjoy weekends...
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