As the world’s cities grow the role of farmers is increasingly important, but a lack of accessible agricultural machinery can...
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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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Artist collective Basurama makes creative use of waste in order to re-think our relationship with unsustainable ways of living. ...
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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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To help preserve local heritage and provide formal and financial education, a rural community in Uganda is building its own...
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“Our city is a place we built with our own hands to live in peace.” In Turbaco, a 20-minute...
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This educational video game highlights the importance of preserving ecosystems, caring for local fauna, and fighting urban speculation. Would...
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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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La Caravana Escuela sets up blacksmithing schools in remote communities and sets off a future-fixing chain reaction. At over...
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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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💬 “A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.” – Patrick Geddes The...
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Beetime connects socially engaged art with natural beekeeping practices to bring together community, scientists and artists in their southern Spanish...
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Closed-loop, regenerative, urban agriculture: Good Neighbor Gardens is farming the city and feeding San Diego one garden at a time....
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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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In Catalonia, the Associació Obrador Xisqueta creates awareness of a protected native breed while also promoting ethical fashion. Petite,...
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Precious Plastic is on a mission to boost recycling by helping everyone start their own local plastic workshop. A...
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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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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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In Colombia, sustainable affordable homes are being built on solid grounds... coffee grounds. We love a project that solves...
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A museum created in Minecraft is craftily encouraging citizens to fight climate change in virtual worlds – to help solve...
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An innovative system of huge yellow floodgates is blocking the Adriatic Sea to hold back the tide, inspired by Moses parting the...
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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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The current face of architecture is not an accurate reflection of what our cities look like. One woman in Detroit...
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Educating girls is fundamental for a sustainable future for East Africa, but only 5 percent of girls graduate. Most spend...
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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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“There is no question that plastic pollution is one of the most pressing problems of our time – and it’s...
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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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The April morning sun beats down on Kontagora, a lively market town in central Nigeria. Generators hum as milling machines...
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It’s time to work together. It’s time to think creatively. And it’s time to be useful. That’s why we’re collating...
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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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Could 3D-printing help to tackle homelessness and provide affordable housing for those who need it most? Rural families in...
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As climate change shrinks Andean glaciers and brings water shortages, two Quechua sisters are building traditional ‘sacred’ reservoirs to harvest...
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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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Colombia’s diverse geography – from towering Andean mountain ranges, to vast flooding wetlands and thick Amazonian jungle – has made...
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Every night across the world’s former murder capital, young boys and girls study the four elements of hip-hop to transform...
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Celebrated ocean conservationist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson knows that caring about the ocean doesn’t just mean thinking about marine ecosystems,...
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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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In Democratic Republic of the Congo, poor educational access and poor quality education is linked with the historic instability the...
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“Small Food Bakery is a journey to try and build a localised, non commodity food system, perhaps masquerading as a...
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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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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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"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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In the UK, buildings, transport and energy account for over two thirds of our carbon dioxide emissions. What if there...
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An anonymous pirate radio DJ is sharing positive ideas, encouraging young East Africans to take action to improve their lives...
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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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Back in 2011 in Rwanda, 16 years after the genocide against the Tutsi sent shock waves across the world, creative...
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Noelia Morales wants to help evolve how society perceives breast cancer, femininity and beauty. Born out of personal necessity, her...
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In the late 18th century a small group of remarkable friends met at a house outside Birmingham, UK, got blind drunk...
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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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As pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andrè Borschberg took Solar Impulse around the world for its record-breaking journey, the world-leading manufacturer of...
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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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From plant pots to art installations, the humble plastic bottle has been recycled in a wide variety of ways. However,...
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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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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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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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Imagine living on a massive ice shelf thousands of miles away from anyone else, that when the weather gets warmer...
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This March 2016 saw more than 23,000 solar panels mounted on an air-filled float on the Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir on the...
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Imagine climbing a skyscraper while carrying an elephant. Or dragging a blue whale around on land. Engineers from Stanford’s Biomimetics...
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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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This week WikiHouse co-founder and FutureHero Alastair Parvin went to the cinema to see The Big Short (2015), Hollywood’s take on the...
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In Japan, the overdevelopment of golf courses during the real-estate boom of the 90s and 00s led to hundreds of...
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Aligning nature and technology near the Balinese town of Ubud exists an off-grid international school whose mission is to be 'the number...
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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 age of the flatpack farm has dawned. That’s the ambition of green-thumbed urban innovators Mikkel Kjaer and Ronnie Markussen...
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By now it’s been proven that labs can grow mini kidneys, but connecting them to a host’s excretory system has...
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In the late 18th century a small group of remarkable friends met at a house outside Birmingham, UK, got blind...
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Minibuilders takes 3D printing on a large scale to a new level. There has always been a close relationship between...
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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 lead founder behind the revolutionary WikiHouse – the digitally manufactured building system that anyone can download and make –...
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Skateistan started in Afghanistan as a "crazy idea" to use skateboarding for empowerment. Now it's opening a fifth school, so more...
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Science and technology have, to date, favoured fission over fusion in the nuclear energy world. But fusion has some pretty...
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Silicon Valley talks about ‘moonshots’, the huge, ambitious projects that address the world’s problems such as cancer detection nanotechnology or...
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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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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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A new icon is due to disrupt the Rotterdam skyline when it starts construction in 2025. A take on the...
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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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From companies to supply chains, and urban to agricultural areas, we live in a world of complex systems designed centuries...
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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 future of construction goes far beyond 3D printable homes or smart cities. In this video created for Beyond Building...
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As co-founder of the open source building system WikiHouse, Alastair Parvin sees democracy as a design blueprint, has never shied away from...
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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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