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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“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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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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Safi Organic’s decentralized production of organic fertiliser is helping hundreds of farmers to improve crop yields while also teaching the...
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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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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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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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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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Ever travelled by poo power, perhaps even your own? These buses are powered by the fuel of the future. ...
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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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A youth network in the Mediterranean is flowing with ideas of how to solve the world’s water challenges. They’re the...
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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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Environmental activists Zakiya Mckenzie and Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley want you to go outside and embrace the countryside, to take in all...
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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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What links Arcade Fire, a marching band in rural Haiti, goats and the circular economy? Régine Chassagne, from 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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This Berlin-based circular economy startup converts your old clothes into something brand new – and even more stylish. Every...
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Recycling clothes is a complicated business. Making fabrics new again isn’t the only challenge – the threads, zippers and buttons...
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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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While mobile phones bring huge benefits – such as accessibility to information, ability to set up mobile payments and help...
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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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“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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“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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“It’s like watching YouTube: you start on one thing and then an hour later you’re watching something completely different.” Distinguished...
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What looks like an insect, roams around southern Africa, and farts out balls of fire? A giant dung beetle made...
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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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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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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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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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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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"Not everybody wants to work for money on a platter. Sometimes we do things just because they matter." An economist,...
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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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"Do you believe in magic?" These innovators do. In West Africa, a ‘grigri’ is a mystical amulet that protects. In Spain,...
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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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As storytellers we're interested in how transformative change happens. This week we hosted the first Salon with our Project Breakthrough partners Volans. The...
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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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Seattle-based mobile app Stuffstr may help multinational retailers transfer to the circular economy. Clothing giants such as H&M and The North...
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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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Almost every city in the developed world now has a housing market crisis. Homes are increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and unhealthy....
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The future of construction goes far beyond 3D printable homes or smart cities. In this video created for Beyond Building...
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Take a cup of old coffee grounds, a handful of mussel shells, and a dash of green tea, and what...
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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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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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For the past year Atlas of the Future has been excited by creative and cultural projects with a social mission....
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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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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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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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