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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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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Kids are running the show in Cotacachi. There’s a rabbit, a princess, a cowboy. Children dancing in circles, a human...
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Ever felt inspired to take action after seeing a beautiful piece of art? An international non-profit based in Hawaii is...
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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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Little Amal is a little girl on a BIG journey. The giant puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian girl is journeying...
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It’s 2002 and in a large square just streets away from the Colosseum, market stalls line up to sell their...
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If COVID left you feeling down in the dumps, send in the clowns! It goes without saying that communities...
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Europe’s densest neighbourhood, die-hard champion of authenticity and diversity, is starting to tell its own story in its first co-created...
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Occupy space, occupy history: can you hear the land you’re walking on? In Fitzroy, a historical inner suburb of Melbourne,...
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One of the most exciting legacy project’s from the 2016 Rio Olympic Games is the Museu do Amanhã, or Museum...
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“What if we welcomed all animals, plants and things into our Parliament? What would the argument of the cod, algae...
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“It is important to tell our stories as refugees, to express ourselves, to be heard.” David Thok Koang, 16 years...
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“We have this big vision that we would like every child to own a hundred books by the age of...
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It’s bold, colourful, and sometimes illegal; it makes big statements and spreads joy; it redefines our streets even when it...
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If not us, then who? When it comes to keeping trees standing, that’s the question the inhabitants of the world’s...
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The Amsterdam based Black Archives boasts an inspiring mixture of educational resources, cultural projects, and political organisation, highlighting the diversity...
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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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Take a cup of old coffee grounds, a handful of mussel shells, and a dash of green tea, and what...
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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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Imagine being able to grow and make almost anything. Well, you can. That’s what this ‘Fab’ global initiative is...
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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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Is there anything sweeter than a library made from ice cream buckets? Yes. One whose facade spells out "books are...
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The world is on the move, our climate is changing, a pandemic keeps us apart. So there's never been a...
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Reopened in November 2020 after a major renovation, Sydney’s Australian Museum brings a focus on climate solutions and First Nations...
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同志亦凡人中文站 (Queer as Folk) is the most reliable source for queer media on the Chinese internet and go-to place for...
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Building on the trust and popularity of museums, this NY-based climate museum bakes action into everything it does, inspiring the...
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Most people’s concept of what a museum is needs updating. In response to the challenges of COVID, the digitisation of...
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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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We're living in one of the most memorable moments in history. Blavity is the powerful multi-platform, multimedia Black-owned and Black-community serving...
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These dolls outsell Barbie in Nigeria and so they should. The colourful Queens of Africa help young African girls embrace their...
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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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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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In this storybook sisterhood, a diverse range of phenomenal women mirror characters from books to inspire girls to read for...
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To seduce the public with culture, some saucy Spanish poets are prostituting themselves for money, but not in the way...
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Are you ready to speak frankly about gender issues and sexual taboos? Because this virtual art gallery wants you to...
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As Wales entered its first lockdown, Mymuna Soleman set up a virtual space for difficult conversations. She just never expected...
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Two women are changing the narrative on Yemen by creating groundbreaking and authentic local artistic content in an extreme environment....
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"Hope is sprouting in the margins, from the grassroots.” – Rhiannon White The stage is set… but not as you know...
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Meet the people bringing the magic of music to youth in Palestine. In Bethlehem’s refugee camps, it can be hard...
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“The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.” – Joe Strummer, The Clash...
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In São Paulo, people are using the Cataki app to swipe right on cleaner streets, protecting the environment, and improving...
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“Thanks to the confinement we have witnessed a profusion of creative people using social networks for the production and distribution...
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Tip ► Play music by the Garifuna Collective while reading this to bring their culture into vivid life. And because it’s...
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Beauty is being created in black and white just a few metres away from the Syrian border in an area...
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Backflipping for freedom in Gaza, the Camps Breakerz Crew aren’t letting rubble-strewn pavements stop them dancing in the street. Meet the...
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"I marvel at the talent of youth in impossible situations and their potential to move things.”– Martin Fernando Jakobsen Can...
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We've all heard the expression 'Don't judge a book by its cover'. Yet we’re all guilty of doing it. And you...
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The Save The Chicken app is providing a digital solution to the very analogue chicken mortalities happening in Africa. Early...
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After the success of Somos Brasil – a photography, sound and DNA exploration of Brazilian identities – British artist Marcus...
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WhyWeCraft creates immersive experiences for consumers, artisans and designers that take them closer to our cultural heritage of making. ...
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Imagine if you could donate clean air to the city simply by buying a ring or set of cufflinks? But...
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"It's time to change the conversation about climate change from polar bears to people.” – Dominique Browning Forget Thunderbirds, these moms...
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Welcome to the world’s first ever cemetery made using single use plastic bottles. Having opened its gates on World Wildlife...
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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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"We craft furniture that benefits people and planet; gifts that do good." The problem of waste is a global one...
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Join us this Sunday in Barcelona to hear from one of the most articulate voices in British hip-hop at Middle Passage...
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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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Hong Kong-born Bonnie Chiu is inviting everyone to step into the worlds of garment workers in Bangladesh, sex workers in...
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… and into gyms, refugee camps and pirate radio. These 8 colourful projects combine art, creative optimism and street smarts...
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We live in worrying times. Sometimes it’s hard to see the bright side. Eco-anxiety is on the rise. But a...
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"Pablo Picasso once said: 'Every child is an artist. But the problem is how to remain an artist once we...
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"Because we might not have friends or family in abundance who already work in the creative industries, we're having to...
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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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"We are living in the most challenging, yet greatest years mankind has ever seen. We are all facing different struggles,...
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Hip Hop Caucus are using the power of hip hop culture to activate people across America and around the world...
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"This is not just be a destination for people who want to shop in a socially impactful way – although...
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In an ever-changing creative landscape, today's youth need to become multi-disciplinary – skilled at being creative in different mediums. Pitch Futures...
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“Hip Hop Caucus represents the streets, it represents those who have a message to tell and who won’t be quiet,...
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“We vote not only for ourselves, but for 'all sons and daughters' and every layer and intersection of identity. We...
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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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“With a collective effort and more awareness we can work against gangsterism. The way I see it, culture is a...
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“In the 20th century, we learned to read, so we could read to learn. Now, we’re learning to make so...
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"I really do believe in the community. I really do believe in the genius in every person. And that's not...
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Good news: the power of true happiness can be discovered collectively. Australian-born, British-based socialist feminist academic and cheery activist Lynne Segal...
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“We know a new politics of solidarity, individual responsibility and collective transformation is urgently needed. Can we culturally educate ourselves...
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In the small Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco in Brazil, an arts-as-transformation project is addressing the survival and transformation of...
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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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"The youth are co-creators, coordinators and researchers of everything that Rios de Encontro does." – Dan Baron Cohen, Co-founder, Rios...
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Big in Japan: the global goals can seem too big to make a difference. That’s where the 2030 SDGs Game comes...
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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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Did you hear the one about the hot tub, the actor and the quantum physicist? How about the one with...
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“Gastronomical culture and food heritage is very important. We have a responsibility to acknowledge Bolivian products and work with them...
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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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An experimental organic farmers’ market set up by a ‘culinary activist’ is breaking down religious and cultural barriers in the...
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Science and engineering is the most fascinating story on earth in the hands of the right storyteller. "It’s in the...
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The stage is a boxing ring, an empty house, a vast factory floor. The props have been taken from a...
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“We want to drive political action with our work, and I don’t think you can do that sitting down.” –...
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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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An anonymous pirate radio DJ in Nairobi, ‘electro-modern’ remixes in Costa Rica, slum kids with cameras in Argentina and miraculous...
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Creating opportunities for women is exactly what Raven + Lily is all about. A flagbearer for gender equality and female...
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"Do you have any family or friends that you’d like to record a message for?" A walk along Market Street in San...
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One face forward, another facing back: you’re looking at Jirondai, the legendary shaman with two faces. He gives his name...
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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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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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Hip hop and politics. Blind photographers. Crayons and big ideas. In this week's CultureFutures special we're exploring creativity in surprising...
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Out of the mouths of babes… come wondrous ideas and fantastical plans. Ever seen a rucksack with wings? How about...
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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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A photographer called Jose Martínez took the picture below. He calls it ‘End of discrimination’. Jose is one of the...
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"I recognise the power of the chef in today’s world. Traditions and cultural connections should be front and centre – chefs...
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Fasten your helmets as this week we're exploring creativity in the most toxic place on earth and getting lost in...
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Drawing from their backgrounds in fashion, advertising, the entertainment industries and social organizations (or NGOs), in 2011 four dynamic Paraguayan entrepreneurs cooked up Koga,...
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In old Norse mythology the Aesir are the principal gods of the pantheon. In present day Hong Kong AESIR are serious games for social inclusion....
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Priya is a ‘rape survivor superhero’. Together these three words are shattering taboos in India, thanks to the powerful comic...
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Imagine being stuck in a room you can’t escape. You hear voices: “Do it!” “Stop it!” Light shoots out of...
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Let us transport you from Mauritania to Indonesia via blood, sweat and paint, pixels and words... Over the past few months...
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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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Girl bikers, transgender activists, divorcee entrepreneurs and female cricket journalists; this digital platform shows you a different side of Pakistan....
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Turning the silver screen green and providing a ray of light in South Africa (literally), Sunshine Cinema is not just an...
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Brazil’s culture-friendly tax law, a bus trip in India where he met his future wife and a desire to dive...
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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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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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Amirah Sackett is break(dancing) stereotypes by using hip-hop to promote religious tolerance. With her female Muslim dance group We're Muslim, Don't Panic,...
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“Africa has a very rich storytelling history but because the delivery of these stories was mostly oral we lost a...
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“Five years ago, it was said that one of the main reasons people weren’t buying electric cars was because of...
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