Do you ever wonder what stories are hidden behind your neighbourhood streets? This is one of the questions that...
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Projects
Innovating within an institution that is over one hundred years old is no easy feat, but that’s what Innovation Partnerships...
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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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The Artivist Network brings together arts activists and facilitators to imagine a better future. Here at Atlas of the...
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How do you inspire action on the climate emergency? Through spectacle, satire and humour, according to ClimActs. ClimActs co-founder...
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“The future we are trying to create is a future in which people are able to find the time to...
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Sitting comfortably? For the 1 billion people around the world who live with a disability, wearing standard clothing can mean...
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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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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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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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“It is important to tell our stories as refugees, to express ourselves, to be heard.” David Thok Koang, 16 years...
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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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As Neil Gaiman wrote, ‘a town isn’t a town without a bookstore.’ So, in the age of internet shopping, what’s...
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Fashion has always set out to be bold and original. But real creativity comes from new, different, underrepresented voices. ...
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Justice, conservation, wilderness; soulful, ancestral, unconsumable – these are not words usually associated with the fashion industry. But The Lissome...
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Forget the ‘latest trend’. This fashion magazine is replacing newness with a different type of luxury: creativity, originality, and slowing...
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“Fashion is both a powerful art form and a way of communicating that is faster and arguably more powerful than...
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A new generation needs a new generation of media. Enter GUAP: a media platform that has earned its description...
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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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Despite artisan know-how stretching back to ancient times, independent clothes makers around the Mediterranean now struggle against powerful global brands...
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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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No one can change the world – or in this case, the fashion industry – on their own. Which is where Sustainable...
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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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Not to be confused with a building or wedding venue, Hackney Wick Town Hall is an event that opens up conversations....
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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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The creative producers behind WADUP are making podcasts with teens across the world. Meet generation podcast. "Our ultimate goal...
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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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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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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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Colèchi’s mission includes working to dismantle bad practices, change mindsets and confronting sustainability and fashion’s relationship with the planet. ...
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"When dreams die, they do not make much noise. When hopes are crushed, the signs are soundless." Sheroes Hangout is...
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“Storytelling is the most powerful tool that we can give to kids." Based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cineastas del Futuro...
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Toni Massanés has been wondering what makes things good throughout his career – and has been finding answers at the...
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Britain’s most ethical restaurant doesn’t have a bin. Founded by ex-St John chef Dougie McMaster, the team at Silo brews its own booze,...
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“Muhra in Arabic means 'foal', but also new beginnings. It represents what we do here." In a discreet five-story building...
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Rape threats, racist slurs and being followed home are just some of the things that women and girls are subjected...
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The streets of Portugal are being turned into vibrant canvases as ‘wrinkle wall writers’ get to grips with spray cans;...
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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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“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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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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Since the 1970s, development initiative Sekem has been revitalising the hot, arid sands of a once untouched part of the Egyptian desert, transforming...
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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 vote not only for ourselves, but for 'all sons and daughters' and every layer and intersection of identity. We...
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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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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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“Gastronomical culture and food heritage is very important. We have a responsibility to acknowledge Bolivian products and work with them...
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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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"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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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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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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Priya is a ‘rape survivor superhero’. Together these three words are shattering taboos in India, thanks to the powerful comic...
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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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Global sportswear giant Nike has unveiled a hijab designed for female Muslim athletes... and the press went wild. After sparking a flurry of...
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Happiful is a monthly UK magazine that aims to create a healthier, happier and more sustainable society. Their first mission is...
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When it comes to climate change, a self-described "walking billboard for the glaciers" wants to prove that anyone can make a...
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Design education is being given a radical redesign by extreme experience designer – and Atlas FutureHero – Nelly Ben Hayoun. The...
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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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