What would the lack of images mean for the fashion industry? Would it collapse? These are some of the questions...
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We're excited to announce the 2023 dates of our annual festival: 12, 13 and 14 October. Mark them in you...
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Welcome to World 27, where people tell the stories of their garments instead of giving them a price-tag. In...
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RESOLVE is on a mission to tackle social issues through process-led design. What are the emotions that your city...
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Fam Studio helps young minds prepare for uncertain futures through hands-on learning. There are many challenges facing the young...
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“Slow Factory is infiltrating, challenging and enhancing traditional disciplinary education.” Access to good education is vital for a healthy...
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Can music make a connection through people’s busy everyday lives and change the narrative on environmental issues? That is the...
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Do you ever wonder what stories are hidden behind your neighbourhood streets? This is one of the questions that...
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Do you like skating and want your personalised skateboard deck? Look no further than Project RPSD. Oh, and did we...
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As you know, last month we held Fixing the Future Festival here in Barcelona and it was a blast! There...
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Atlas of the Future and Fashion Fictions are looking for digital storytellers to create a simple game based on an...
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Although running events can be a strain on the environment, there are initiatives that are tackling food waste at catered...
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More than 70 international experts, with more than 50 ideas and projects to inspire change, will meet on 16–17 September...
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Marina Testino is an award-winning ARTivist who works at the intersection of fashion and advocacy. It’s well known that the...
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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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Fixing the Future Festival, held on 16 & 17 of September at CCCB (Barcelona), is an all-encompassing experience, with talks,...
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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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“You cannot respect something without loving it, and you cannot love something you do not know” Jon Kareaga is a...
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We recently dived head-first into the world of music visionary and climate activist Brian Eno. After an inspiring conversation about...
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Welcome to World 54, where the production of new textiles has been severely restricted, leading to the development of a...
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Welcome to the Mushroom World, an ecologically minded generation of thinkers who adopted mushrooms as their non-human spiritual guides. Once...
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Gender adviser for climate justice and resilience at Oxfam Intermón, Sandra Sotelo Reyes has always been interested in questioning 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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Run by refugees, Talking Hands is the Italian design & fashion studio where art and storytelling create employment opportunities, tear...
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The community-powered organisation keeps over 8 thousand Black women gamers safe online and advocates for diversity, inclusion and equity in...
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Brew your tea, stir some milk in. Make some toast and butter it. Sip, eat, wash, dry. Now, can you...
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“I ended up taking surfing as my coping skill because every time I am in the water, I take the...
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We hope you’re enjoying this holiday season! Whether you’re a fan of mulled wine and sweaters or a Santa hat...
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Dear explorers, It is with heavy hearts that we inform you that the 3rd edition of Fixing the Future Festival...
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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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Ecologist, research professor and world-renowned alien expert Montserrat Vilà joins us to discuss the fascinating story of what’s hiding in...
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We recently caught up with entrepreneur, eco-legend and all-round excellent chap Tim Smit. In a winding conversation (incl. digressions into...
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Have you heard the one about the bull, the rabbit, and the policeman? And the one about the flawed dinosaur?...
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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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Sitting comfortably? For the 1 billion people around the world who live with a disability, wearing standard clothing can mean...
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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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Daring conservationist, biologist and adventurer Sacha Dench, a.k.a the “human swan”, is saving migratory species one awe-inspiring expedition at a...
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Located on Canada’s Pacific Coast, an alliance of First Nations is working to protect the ecosystems of an area that...
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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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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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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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This art collective serves society through the revival of inner city spaces and creates community spirit reflected in urban art....
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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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GROW fuses art and science, using lighting design to improve crop resilience and production while inspiring us to take a...
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“I always tell kids the same thing: the future has not yet been written.” Javier Goyeneche believes that children are...
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Nope, we’re not at church – but this anonymous congregation are here to worship all things creative. Working to a...
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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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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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“If we don’t know what we’re saying to each other how can we move forward on a shared path?” Samata...
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The algae-based bio-company Algaeing not only produces dyes, their patented technology allows for the creation of coloured fibers, changing the...
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Blackbirds are the inspiration for SauColors' vibrant blue dye made from waste berries – a possible sustainable alternative for colouring denim....
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TômTex uses shellfish waste to create a sustainable alternative to harmful leather practices. Designer Uyen Tran may have developed TômTex...
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Faber Futures is revolutionising colour with bacteria, using 500 times less water than traditional dyeing. Assemblage 002 is a reversible...
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? “We are not alone in the universe. The irrational thing is to believe that we are.” – Juan Insua Mars...
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“Museums that involve citizens are the future.” Jordi Costa is the writer, filmmaker and cultural critic behind the exhibitions at Barcelona’s CCCB, one...
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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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Forget the ‘latest trend’. This fashion magazine is replacing newness with a different type of luxury: creativity, originality, and slowing...
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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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Take a cup of old coffee grounds, a handful of mussel shells, and a dash of green tea, and what...
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Chile-based designer Margarita Talep has developed her own eco-friendly packaging as a substitute for plastic. Part of the problem causing the...
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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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Precious Plastic is on a mission to boost recycling by helping everyone start their own local plastic workshop. A...
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A social enterprise in India is bringing much needed play into children’s lives with low-cost playscapes made from scrap tyres...
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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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Imagine being able to grow and make almost anything. Well, you can. That’s what this ‘Fab’ global initiative is...
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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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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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In Colombia, sustainable affordable homes are being built on solid grounds... coffee grounds. We love a project that solves...
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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 global sextech industry is huge and growing. If there was ever a time to want more pleasure, it’s during lockdown,...
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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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A drone company saving lives in Ghana and Rwanda has become a lesson in using autonomous drones as a tool for social...
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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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The Internet is broken. But we can fix it with an alternative collection of open, fair and safe alternatives. 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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What links Arcade Fire, lab-grown chicken burgers, the rare white Arabian oryx, masks made from plastic waste and the circular economy?...
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Imagine going from 30 to 80 years old in ten minutes by slipping on an age simulation suit and going...
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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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Home to endangered marine turtles that come to its shores to lay their eggs, Ghana has a rich fauna and...
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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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They might not be taking clothes to space, but the AWAYTOMARS crowdsourcing collective have found a new frontier in the...
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“The vision for Blavity is a world in which all Black people are happy.” Aaron Samuels’ life is a tale...
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Boomera works with Brazil’s waste pickers and big brands to find new creative uses for plastic that normally ends up...
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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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In this storybook sisterhood, a diverse range of phenomenal women mirror characters from books to inspire girls to read for...
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