Providing pure creativity in a digital world, Barcelona-based creative symposium OFFF is more than a design festival with unbridled Fs. It's a...
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Projects
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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Salus.Coop imagines a world where citizens control their health data. The future of our health depends largely on the...
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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 stay ahead in an increasingly automated world, we’ll need to be more human than ever. You’ve probably heard the...
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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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The best built-in odour sensor? It’s sitting on your face. Did you know that around the world, odour pollution...
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Communities around the world have been experiencing the effects of changes in their environment for decades. LICCI is putting them...
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“Equity is not secondary to survival, as some suggest; it is survival.” — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilson,...
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Barcelona’s street vendors launched a fashion brand that’s all about “doing things right.” Six years ago, Barcelona’s street sellers...
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“We’re the street plants that’ll resist even when you suffocate them with concrete.” There’s a neighbourhood in Colombia that uses...
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Photographer, journalist and graphic designer Callie Broaddus felt moved to create Reserva: the Youth Land Trust by her professional and...
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Primary school pupils and beach strolling enthusiasts have turned into leading allies for scientists fighting problems in marine ecosystems. ...
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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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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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The Source farms in harmony with the land, its flora and fauna, and its local community. In the Saint...
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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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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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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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By now you will know of Extinction Rebellion, the global movement changing climate action. So what's next? "Troublemakers change...
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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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Let us transport you to central Chile to a small farm tucked way in the coastal hills. This is a story...
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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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Online exchange and interaction between young people around the world is now a part of our daily lives, but how...
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This collective online platform can make a difference for rare disease patients and their families. Rare diseases amount to...
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Articles, photo essays, videos, exhibitions, reports, events, training and other multimedia material can effectively affect policy-making. That's why AMWAJ is spearheading the move...
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"Together we can make a significant impact in the fight against shark fishing and their declining populations." Barcelona's Regina Domingo has...
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When it comes to our fruit and vegetables, we’re used to supermarket perfection, but a misshapen carrot or heart-shaped potato...
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People will always love books. While digital media has disrupted other industries, there really is nothing like a physical book...
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CuEmE (Entrepreneurial Culture in the School) is a programme in Barcelona that links schools and local authorities so students can...
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Some say the word ‘Bages’ comes from Bacchus, the Roman god of wine. This probably isn’t true, but wine has...
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The use of forest biomass to generate heat energy is huge in Europe: trunk, bark, branches, needles leaves and roots...
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"Why should we study for a future we don’t have?" On 20 August 2018, a 15-year-old girl walked out of...
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“You can spend your time on Facebook and Instagram, or spend half of that time helping researchers realise their objectives!”...
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Do you know your yellow-browed warbler from your bluethroat? Then Ornitho.cat wants you. The online citizen science project is dedicated...
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Today, smartphones are as fast as 120,000,000 Apollo 11 computers, which were capable of taking people to the moon. If we...
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Backpacks with integrated school desks; modular tiles and twisty joints; pop up recycling trailers; and even a child’s rocker –...
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“The peasant way of life is one of the most precious things we have on this planet to shine a...
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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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Excited by biofertilisers? Want to know about biodynamic vines, Catalonian chickens and compost tea – or get down and dirty...
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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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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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Language is a tricky thing: vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and numerous irregularities and inconsistencies. If that’s not enough, regional differences and...
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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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Just as the Atlas mission is to 'Democratise the Future', littleBits is on a mission to 'Democratise Hardware' by empowering everyone –...
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? AtlasEvent ► Meet Agamemnon Otero at Fixing the future 2019 in Barcelona. In South London, a ‘renewable dynamo’ is tackling fuel poverty with renewable...
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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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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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Barcelona's former factory neighborhood Poblenou, meaning 'new town', is witnessing a new type of industry in the neighbourhood’s streets. A...
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Submitted by you: Familyar is an app to prevent loneliness and social isolation of older adults by deeply involving families...
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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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As far as daunting projects go they don’t come much bigger than overhauling one of the worst performing schools in...
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The self-published DIY ‘zine’ has always been the domain of those in search of alternatives. Its DIY nature eschews the...
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In 2005, Stockholm-based philanthropist Hans Rosling predicted that differentiating between hard data and opinion would be one of the digital...
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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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