“Slow Factory is infiltrating, challenging and enhancing traditional disciplinary education.” Access to good education is vital for a healthy...
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Projects
Do you ever wonder what stories are hidden behind your neighbourhood streets? This is one of the questions that...
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Force of Nature responds to eco-anxiety through education programmes, consulting and campaigns, asking people to step up rather than shut...
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In the remote jungle of South Sumatra, Indonesia, conservationist Pungky Nanda Pratama walks for hours to reach every child with...
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Run by refugees, Talking Hands is the Italian design & fashion studio where art and storytelling create employment opportunities, tear...
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The non-profit Social Skate gets social change rolling on skateboards for vulnerable children and young adults. In the 1980s,...
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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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This story starts with a pair of shoes and ends with a hotel chain that empowers women at risk of...
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Few chefs have the vision and skill to sow 223 varieties of native potatoes on their Andean restaurant’s high-altitude farmland,...
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The Billion Oyster Project wants to restore New York Harbour’s once famous and flourishing oyster reefs, bringing biodiversity back to...
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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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“It is important to tell our stories as refugees, to express ourselves, to be heard.” David Thok Koang, 16 years...
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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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The Fabricademy program is training a global community of transdisciplinary designers to propose new ways of making, designing, wiring and...
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‘Creative’ and ‘factory’: two words not often seen together. It’s time they were. About a Worker describes itself as...
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Bel Jacobs and other fashion experts talk to students about the ways that fashion can be damaging to human wellbeing...
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An orchestra made up of young people at risk of social exclusion turns rubbish from the largest landfill in Paraguay...
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Young people are unleashing their creative brilliance by creating high end couture from everyday junk. At a time when...
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Africa’s first space for democratic technology has now produced over twenty 3D printers made from e-waste. Over one billion...
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A self-trained robotics engineer is sparking creativity and accelerating science learning in Africa – with a strong focus on rural...
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Get ready to enter a new dimension for medical imaging as the world's only accurate and interactive 3D holograms equip...
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A pioneering virtual rehab platform is combining VR, gaming and motion capture to help make therapy fun. Virtual reality...
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Many students ponder what they will do after university, but fewer find that passion and follow it to the point...
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This is how you grow vegetables in the Sahara – by piping seawater from the Red Sea across the sands to produce...
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A franchise network of 'digital' toilets in Nairobi is helping to stem the spread of COVID-19 among vulnerable urban slum communities....
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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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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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“The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.” – Joe Strummer, The Clash...
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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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"I marvel at the talent of youth in impossible situations and their potential to move things.”– Martin Fernando Jakobsen Can...
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On the banks of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad in western India, a small school is making a big noise...
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If you feel that formal education doesn't hold the answers to a sustainable future, take a few tips from Enrol Yourself...
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Everything in nature is connected. That's why Berkley's Center for Ecoliteracy is cultivating education for sustainable living – encouraging sustainable practices and food...
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In the state of Lousiana, the coastline abutting the Gulf of Mexico is disappearing at an alarming rate, due in...
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Pupils have been swinging from the trees at Summerhill School for a century. Founded back in 1921, the oldest and probably most...
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How can we make cutting-edge science and STEM discoveries available to younger audiences? It's important for the scientist of the...
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The London Interdisciplinary School is a really interesting new university in the UK, led by a group of academics, entrepreneurs...
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This is what happens when two punks from Doncaster decide to open a school, which becomes a beacon for social...
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Learn languages with native speakers in conversation sessions that offer hope to refugees who have lost everything. Looking to...
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Did you know that we can enable African students to learn vital IT skills in addition to offsetting tonnes of...
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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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Is this the clothes shop of the future? Imagine walking into a space on your local high street, selecting a...
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Repair has always been a noble profession, but our increasing obsession with newer, better, faster means we have stopped fixing...
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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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Imagine for a moment finding yourself in an abandoned town under the characteristic scorching sun of south-eastern Spain. You look...
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While Colombian roaster Devoción has sourced specialty arabica beans directly from independent farmers and paid more than the fair-trade asking...
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A powerful mini-computer ‘teaching assistant’ is revolutionising Latin American education and can help bridge the pedagogical divide between the world’s...
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Have you heard of ‘shredder workouts’? They’re fast and furious exercises that shred the fat off your body. And they’re...
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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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Something important is happening in Cleveland: one of America’s poorest cities has a radical plan to remake itself. Anyone who...
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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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“The forest is like a mother. She gives us everything we need to live comfortably." Timbaktu Collective is empowering villagers...
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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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“We are trying to demonstrate that it is possible to build projects that combine sustainable economic activity with social inclusion...
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Owing to crime, the neighbourhood of Kalihi in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii, has a bad rap. That's where KVIBE (Kalihi Valley Instructional...
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Inspired by his own story, Stephen Addison created BoxUp Crime to change young people’s lives through the power of boxing....
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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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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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A simple but effective solution to tackling ocean waste, the Seabin Project was created by two surfers, Pete Ceglinski and Andrew...
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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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In Pakistan, an award-winning startup is redefining special education with augmented reality games that are cheap, efficient, measurable and accessible for everyone....
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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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The numbers look great: 100,000 landmines destroyed, 22 million square metres of land returned to local communities and over 900,000...
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What do you get if you cross a community centre, a laboratory, a studio, a gallery, science centre and a...
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Documentary filmmaker Stalin K Padma is convinced that the lack of diversity in India’s mainstream media results in large swathes...
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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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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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A lifelong boater and self-professed ‘beach bum’ wants to stop virgin plastic from entering the ocean ever again. And help...
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A young Ghanaian rising social entrepreneur is changing the face of transport in Ghana through her women-led Ghana Bamboo Bike project. Unemployment is one of...
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Our thirst for computer programs and mobile apps shows no sign of abating. From online to the impending launch of...
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The world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
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If you’ve ever felt like you can’t face watching the news then you’re not alone. Research shows that people often...
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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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The soft and silky long staples of Egypt’s high quality, extra-long staple (ELS) cotton make it ideal for the production...
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Understanding climate change is at times a perplexing business. Communicating it is a considerable challenge, especially for those who might...
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GEOCOCO – Geography of Corporal Consciousness – is a form of therapy designed to enhance our daily lives by improving...
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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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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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Today’s highly competitive job market in the UK can make knowing which career path to follow difficult, so gap years...
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Technovation Challenge is an annual global technology entrepreneurship competition (currently held in 64 countries) for girls aged 10-18, helping them...
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SMS text messages are improving the lives of mothers-to-be and their newborns in Cameroon. The first mobile health platform in...
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Launched in September 2014, the aim of Programá tu Futuro (Programme Your Future) is to enable schoolchildren over the age...
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To give it its full – if unwieldy – title, the Núcleo de Empreendedorismo da USP (Entrepreneurship Nucleus of the University of São...
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A new model for democratising software education is forcing top French universities to rethink accessible training. Conceived by a multi-billionaire...
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