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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As you know, last month we held Fixing the Future Festival here in Barcelona and it was a blast! There...
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Bestselling supertaster and food educator Bee Wilson knows a thing or two about healthy and sustainable eating. Author of six...
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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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Salus.Coop imagines a world where citizens control their health data. The future of our health depends largely on the...
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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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Calling all activists, creatives, educators, organisers, troublemakers, lawyers, collectives and communities sparking just climate action in Spain. We want to...
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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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Software freedom activism meets environmentalism in Bogotá. Like anybody else, Antonio Vanegas likes to breathe clean air in his...
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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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Go online, catch a blood stall, and speed up Alzheimer’s research — by years! Stall Catchers is the game that...
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AbleGamers empowers people with disabilities to access video games and fight social isolation. Hate lockdown? Spent the better part...
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“When you contract your pelvic floor, the bird goes up. When you relax it, the bird goes down.” At...
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Enter a safe magical space where you can explore your feelings. Hear the stories of people who’ve been where you...
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Love choose-your-own-adventure books? They’re the inspiration for cellphone games that make financial, sexual, and health education accessible to remote communities....
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The Sports Bra Project provides sports bras to those who don’t have access to them, lifting barriers to sports participation....
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The Homeless World Cup harnesses the power of football to put an end to homelessness worldwide. “Football has been...
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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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Bogotá has a new phone number for men who want to hang up on machismo and prevent domestic violence. ...
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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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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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If we use local products, we benefit our farmers, ranchers and artisans. This is precisely what’s at the core of...
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Farah Liz Pallaro knows from experience that a career in fashion and wellbeing often don’t go hand-in-hand. That’s why she...
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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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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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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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Wearables, medical devices, AI and data come together in this lightweight exoskeleton for robot rehab. And it's been tested by former...
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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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Just one step can be an insurmountable obstacle for wheelchair users. And this is where Wheelmap comes into play: the crowdsourcing...
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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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A counter reads: '1,130,106,730' litres served and counting.' That’s over a billion litres of pure drinking water for the most...
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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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Imagine going from 30 to 80 years old in ten minutes by slipping on an age simulation suit and going...
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This water on wheels technology proves an idea doesn’t have to be complicated to be useful. Designed in Africa for Africa, Hippo...
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Helmets are an effective ‘vaccine’ against head injuries on the road. In Vietnam, these helmets are made by people with...
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More and more people are ditching the supermarket in their quest for seasonal local goods. La Ruche qui dit Oui...
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Cycling Without Age is a movement – literally – that’s creating a sense of freedom, joy and happiness in an...
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Africa is building a big wall of trees through 11 countries, just under the southern edge of the Sahara, to...
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In the deprived slum locations in West India, Prabhat Education Foundation is replacing despair with hope. The community-based organisation helps children with special...
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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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This collective online platform can make a difference for rare disease patients and their families. Rare diseases amount to...
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Educating girls is fundamental for a sustainable future for East Africa, but only 5 percent of girls graduate. Most spend...
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“Where can I get this ingredient? This one costs a fortune and I only need a pinch of it, this...
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Being an eco-conscious parent means reducing, reusing and recycling whenever possible, but there’s still the conundrum of what to do...
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Shoes might not grow on trees – but this one grows itself. The Shoe That Grows has a clever design that...
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The cotton industry can be thirsty, toxic and exploitative, but the Barcelona/London based Cotton Diaries believes there are better ways to...
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Argentine celebrity chef Narda Lepes has long championed a plant-based diet at Narda Comedor in Buenos Aires and now she’s...
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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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While surfers, fishermen and sea-lovers might be aware of the devastating impact of discarded plastic, not everyone knows that marine...
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Quite literally raising the bar on anti-knife crime campaigns, Steel Warriors are using surrendered blades in the best possible way. ...
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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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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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Download the app, lend your eyes to solve tasks big and small, and help blind and partially sighted people lead...
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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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"We envision a world where cities recognise their interdependence with the world’s forests and use their political, economic, and cultural...
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Today the food systems must adapt quickly. Farmers, growers, food businesses, cafes and restaurants are being forced to simultaneously and...
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Like it or not – and the international pharmaceutical industry doesn’t – an Indian drug company is boldly reverse-engineering and...
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Just ten days before this was written, the lives of four twenty-something friends – Simone Policano, Healy Chait, Mimi Aboubaker...
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Calling all doctors, nurses, engineers and designers: coronavirus wants you! Ventilators are essential for taking care of people struggling to breathe...
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“No matter what we look like, where we live, or how much money we have, getting sick reminds us that...
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This is the sort of rapid response the world needs right now. On the Monday of 3 February 2020, something...
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South Korea has pioneered an innovative way of testing for the novel coronavirus – inspired by the drive-through counters at McDonalds...
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“We have to work together to stop this pandemic. All of us have to stay safe and have to use...
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Get ready to enter a surreal Noah's Ark of seeds, because deep inside a mountain on a remote island in...
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As doctors limit face-to-face appointments to align with social distancing rules to slow the spread of the coronavirus, tools that help...
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Dino Impagliazzo dices onions like a master chef and makes a mean vegetable soup – but most of his loyal...
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Dog detectives are using their pooch powers of perception to save ailing citrus groves from a devastating crop disease that causes mottled...
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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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Juan Gimenez is a technician at Diputació de Barcelona (DiBa). Every day, he has to analyse websites to search for...
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Decades ago, a man bought an old stone mill to feed his family with traditional cereals. One day, his daughter...
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Meet the new magical FutureHero of super-gardening... the black soldier fly. A group of University of Tokyo students have developed...
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Caring for one another is, well, caring, but it can be hard and it can be lonely. You need to...
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Fertility apps aren’t just for women. Now men can test their sperm count on a smartphone, making medical testing easy,...
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Meet Basma and Jad, the Muppets addressing the devastating impacts of crisis and displacement on children. American educational children’s television...
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Clearly not pretending to be human, Intuition Robotics' ElliQ is an AI-powered companion that is half tablet, half robot and...
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Millennials may or may not save the world; only time will tell. But forget labelling Gen Y as saviours or slackers,...
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In long-running British soap opera Eastenders, the main square is home to what is known as the 'Bench of Tears',...
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Is it possible to bring divided communities together through food? Soil Association believes it is. And it’s bringing bunting, garden...
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The aptly-named Songs & Smiles brings music, fun and friendship to children aged 0-4, their grown-ups, and older adults in...
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Which came first: the chicken or this eggscellent idea? Ok, that was rhetorical. It's the chicken, obviously. Now for a real question:...
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Colombia’s diverse geography – from towering Andean mountain ranges, to vast flooding wetlands and thick Amazonian jungle – has made...
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Crack open the sherry, gin and Pimms, because Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ is on the sound system; Hetty has donned her...
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Songwriting grannies, robot sidekicks, savvy social media training, wild swimming, hip hop-picking and hen road shows; what does it mean...
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“I’m not trying to replace the system, but I think the system is missing an essential component, which is the...
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Dystopian science fiction movie Ready Player One (2018) showcased a futuristic world where it’s possible to live life in virtual reality, meeting...
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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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If somebody has a heart attack in a film, there's nearly always a crowd of people nearby – and screaming...
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When you think about climate change, you’re likely to experience a range of emotions. Some of us naturally feel inspired...
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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 lack of wheelchair accessibility makes it hard for disabled people to maintain independence. That’s why a group of ten...
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Many children resist new foods, and encouraging them to make healthy choices about what to eat can look like an...
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Shipping a container from China to South Africa costs the same amount as transporting it from South Africa to Malawi....
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In Uganda, Lake Victoria and Lake Kyoga are the major sources of quality protein, in the form of various species...
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"The more parasites you find, the more data you contribute to fighting the disease." MalariaSpot allows gaming time to be...
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A revolutionary supermarket is proving that Brighton really does rock, by making it easier to be a good consumer. Rather...
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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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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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As the world's population continues to grow, industry has begun to affect even the most remote of places. As well...
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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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Our W.I.S.H : Wisdom through Well-being, Inspiring confidence and a creative mind set for the next generation, Shaping the future in...
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Millions of amputees worldwide live with the loss of a limb, especially in developing countries that don’t often have access...
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In 2010, Sir Andre Geim and Kostya Novosolev won the Nobel Prize in Physics for successfully isolating graphene – a...
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Noelia Morales wants to help evolve how society perceives breast cancer, femininity and beauty. Born out of personal necessity, her...
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Oatly is milk from oats grown in Sweden. But it’s not just a tasty and healthy alternative to cow's milk,...
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Husband and wife team Mark and Mo Constantine were part of a group who co-founded what would become Lush Fresh...
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Every year in Senegal thousands of tonnes of fruit are thrown away due to the lack of initiatives for processing...
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At its simplest GoodGym is a community of runners that combines getting fit with doing good deeds, building better communities through...
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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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Vienna-based Helioz aims to solve the problem of the lack of access to safe drinking water in the Global South, through...
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This isn't clickbait: an electrical engineer based in South Africa has designed an automated locker system that allows people with chronic conditions to...
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With 26 billion trees currently burned down annually and only 15 billion replanted, we need millions of trees to combat the effects of...
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Although farming still seems like an un-cool career option to many young people, Mmabatho Morudi wants to change the face of agriculture: "It’s...
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Trying to find the perfect love match is never easy. We might trawl through Tinder or OKCupid, looking for the...
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A UK publication is on a mission to convey that it’s ok for men to talk about sensitive things and...
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A vegan mayo CEO wants to change the world by making the right thing easy and sexy: "The thing that, if...
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Insects often get a bad press. In reality, however, they can provide essential functions in agriculture and other areas. The...
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Part of a growing movement thinking differently about how to support people living in conflict areas, Refugee Open Ware (ROW3D) works...
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Trainee pilots get flight simulators and now medical students get 3D printed artificial organs that can be poked, prodded and...
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Submitted by you: Tecla is a switch-wheelchair interface suitable for anyone who can’t easily use a smartphone, tablet or computer....
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In the late 19th century a travelling book salesman had a revolutionary idea – to get women to sell beauty...
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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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What does the future of business look like? How will developments from big data, artificial intelligence and the internet of things to driverless vehicles, 3D printing and synthetic biology...
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Submitted by you: Travel around India and you’ll spot Nishant Bioenergy’s earth stoves in restaurants, hostels, kitchens, corporate canteens, religious places, dhaba (roadside...
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Submitted by you: Neighbourly is a social network that support old fashioned neighbourliness in a digital age by connecting local community and...
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They say "you can't teach an old dog new tricks", but that is not computed by 84-year-old Annie Middelburg, who...
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Condom use is critical to decreasing the spread of HIV and STIs on a global scale, yet there have been...
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Physical limitations don’t necessarily mean a limited life. All that is needed is a new perspective - and Argentine Pitu Blazquez is...
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Submitted by you: When someone you love is sick, you want them to have the best possible caregiver... You. Healthcast empowers...
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In the words of the people behind it, this might just be "the coolest thing you will see all year". And they're not...
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Every day, sites like Netflix, Spotify and Flipboard tap into the power of data to provide recommendations that make life ‘easier’,...
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Poor nutrition causes nearly half of death in children under five and 3.1 million people die each year. The 3 Million...
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Gum, coins, Lego, batteries; infants and young children will eat the strangest things. Most small toys will pass through a child’s digestive...
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In 2015 roughly 36 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS, with about 70% of them...
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The words ‘unmanned aerial vehicle’ (UAV) may not sound particularly exciting, but use the more common name – drone – and a much...
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German delivery firm DHL have beaten tech firms Amazon and Google in delivering medical packages to remote or geographically challenging areas via drone, announcing...
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Our friends the bees are in scarily rapid decline worldwide due to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a phenomenon caused by pesticides, parasites,...
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Inspired by his friend Caner's experience, Turkish designer Mehmet Turker has invented an assistive device so that people who can’t use...
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The Earth's atmosphere contains mostly unexploited freshwater and Fontus is an attempt to discover these resources. The self-filling water bottle is...
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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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Chicago’s Stickney Water Reclamation Plant is the biggest wastewater treatment plant on Earth. In fact, at a whopping 260 square miles...
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There are over 100,000 babies born with hearing impairment in India every year. If not detected at an early stage,...
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Two students who connected over a shared interest in invention and problem-solving have designed a pair of gloves that translate American Sign...
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Harvesting edible insects in desktop hives, LIVIN Farms has developed a plug-in kitchen appliance for raising mealworms on your desktop as a...
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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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Sencity is a training programme run by the Skyway Foundation in which young deaf and hard-of-hearing people organise sense-stimulating music events...
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In light of this century’s gains in life expectancy, the issue of supporting older people so that they can remain in...
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Soft robot technology is often considered to be robots without 'bones', which can move and manipulate thanks to their rubbery...
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Please note: This glove should be available by the end of 2017. You can get more information here. Tasks such as opening doors...
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“Humans are optimised to walk very efficiently. However, people with disabilities often have reduced function of their muscles.” At Wyss...
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In Bangladesh, the textile and garment manufacturing sector is fuelled by young workers, many of whom are extremely poor women...
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We have taken, for the first time in human history, steps towards being able to change who we are at...
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Imagine a metal that can be bent and stretched up to four times its original length. Researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de...
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Did you know that origami isn’t just useful for creating swans or cranes – or folding solar arrays for launch...
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Chicken Town have come up with a recipe to reduce obesity in school children by offering an alternative to the...
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Is this the future of research and rescue missions? Having won the one million dollar 2015 UAE Drones for Good...
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For the first time ever there is a clinic which focuses specifically on the body and caring for it after...
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More commonly known for being eaten with rice after going through the traditional Japanese methods of blanching, cooling, salting, there...
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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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A recent episode of the world's longest running investigative TV show, BBC’s Panorama, asked ‘Can You Stop My Multiple Sclerosis?’...
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“What’s it like to be a real life Weki or Femi?” asks the blog for gritty teen drama MTV Shuga. Weki...
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Good news for those with scratched, lost or damaged vocal cords through surgery or disease; a team at the University...
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In Sweden up until the 21st century, there was no way to describe female genitalia other than using a clinical...
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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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People have been ingesting iron since 1200 BC (the Iron Age, in fact). In parts of Africa, people eat red...
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The age of the flatpack farm has dawned. That’s the ambition of green-thumbed urban innovators Mikkel Kjaer and Ronnie Markussen...
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Dengue fever is a fast-growing and sometimes fatal disease which infects an estimated 390 million people every year. In Abingdon,...
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In New Delhi, Open Source Drug Discovery takes the shamefully inefficient and expensive hit rate quoted by the big pharmaceutical...
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Today some of the most advanced 3D printing techniques in the world are being developed by German company Nanoscribe, who are...
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By now it’s been proven that labs can grow mini kidneys, but connecting them to a host’s excretory system has...
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More than 100 trillion bacteria live in and around our bodies, with some ‘good guys’ and others 'bad', yet researchers...
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Wouldn't it be amazing if neuroscience helped paralysed people move again? Neural prosthetics are devices that work by offering a...
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If you've seen the film Limitless, you’re already familiar with the concept of nootropics. They are ‘smart drugs’ that provide...
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In October 2015 four disabled British children had a remarkable new experience – they were fitted with orthoses manufactured purely...
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In the 1980s, sci-fi prophet William Gibson coined the term cyberspace. He also forewarned of brain microchips in the year...
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There isn’t a magic pill to cure the world’s diseases, and there isn’t a one size fits all solution for...
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This pink superfood seaweed tastes just like bacon and is better for you than kale. High in minerals, vitamins, protein and antioxidants,...
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Populations in South East Asia have had to live with haze (poor air quality from pollution) for decades, but intensive...
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Healthcare is underpinned by what’s sometimes defined as the ‘biomedical model’: the system responds when people are sick (with treatment)...
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The idea of zapping your brain may seem unhealthy at best. If you’ve seen the film One Flew Over the...
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The living component of soil is integral to landscape processes. Made up of incredibly diverse organisms from one-celled bacteria and...
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In the past, studies into stroke rehabilitation have used restriction of movement in order to encourage recovery. The Rehabilitation Gaming System...
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Not content with the future-altering feats of fabricating body organs in a lab and spanners in space, another dimension is...
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An estimated 750 million people worldwide drink and cook with water from a contaminated source every day. Providing cheap, clean drinking water for...
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Created BY 3D computational artist, geneticist and ‘data-friendly Elvis’ Peter Crnokrak and visionary director GMUNK, HALO is a data visualisation software that represents...
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As man’s best friend can be trained to smell the distinct odour of cancerous cells, an Israeli scientific superstar has...
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In 2006, a local pharmacist in Cairo noticed two things – that low-income families couldn’t afford medicine, and that there...
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The bCPAP is literally breathing new life into African children’s life expectancy. In 2010 Malawi’s under-5 child mortality rate was...
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Dengue Fever is one of the most common mosquito-borne diseases in the world, affecting an estimated 390 million people per...
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Around 80% of global blindness is preventable or curable. The biggest problem is available not treatment options, but not being...
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In India the Sundara Fund project has produced over 8,000 bars of soap and impacted more than 6,000 lives. The...
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For those craving independence and interaction, a team of European academics, designers and organisations has created a consortium to support ageing...
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Sunburn could be a thing of the past thanks to a bracelet that lets you know when it's time to...
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Scallops with cultured caviar to start, followed by a stem cell pork shoulder, and a delicious beef-berry tart for dessert...
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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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No one has ever been cryogenically frozen, revived, and then cured - yet. However, a team of surgeons in the...
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Incidence of heart disease is rising in many low and middle-income countries due to wealthier lifestyles and greater longevity. Cameroon...
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Instead of using eye tracking to sell us things, as advertisers do, or hijacking our attention for hands-free fun, as...
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