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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Projects
Fam Studio helps young minds prepare for uncertain futures through hands-on learning. There are many challenges facing the young...
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Becoming carbon neutral is not just for the big organisations, but it can be a challenge to find the resources...
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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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Can you do your shopping and plant a tree at the same time? Tred is a UK-based green debit...
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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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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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Salus.Coop imagines a world where citizens control their health data. The future of our health depends largely on the...
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Solar Sister is bringing solar lighting to hard-to-reach communities in Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. Women are disproportionately impacted by...
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“We believe that technology and renewable energy will not be enough to save us. And that for once, we should...
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Feeling weird about being served by robot staff? What if your humanoid waiter was creating employment opportunities for flesh-and-bone workers...
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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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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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“Your eyes will be of no help. So close them, sharpen your hearing and your blade… And embark on an...
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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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Games for Change is the world’s largest community dedicated to the intersection of games and social impact, empowering game creators...
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This educational video game highlights the importance of preserving ecosystems, caring for local fauna, and fighting urban speculation. Would...
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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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This living breathing playground harnesses the power of play to generate clean air in one of Europe’s most polluted cities....
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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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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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? “A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.” – Patrick Geddes The...
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“We know we’re in the middle of an extinction crisis but we still know remarkably little about which species live...
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Meet the forensic scientists tackling the illegal timber trade. Scouring the world of wood in search of clues, solving crimes,...
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The World Bee Project is using Artificial Intelligence and computing technology to understand the local challenges facing bees across the...
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The Drones for Whale Research programme is on a mission to democratise whale science through cheap and non-invasive technology. ...
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Agriledger is turning the supply chain upside down. Now, smallholder mango farmers in Haiti can sell their produce directly in...
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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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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 combination of laser and ozone technologies allows Jeanologia to finish a pair of jeans using just a glass of...
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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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Precious Plastic is on a mission to boost recycling by helping everyone start their own local plastic workshop. A...
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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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A Kenyan entrepreneur has taken discarded plastic and turned it into bricks that can hold twice the weight of concrete...
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Ever travelled by poo power, perhaps even your own? These buses are powered by the fuel of the future. ...
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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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Fancy fabricating your own beehive in 30 minutes? A buzzy giant hive of makers and beekeepers have come together in...
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Need a distraction? Lots of people are turning to the world’s leading citizen science platform to help scientists without leaving...
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Nature is the new gold! Save your local forest and earn money with this new stock exchange for biodiversity. ...
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Tickr’s app allows users to invest as little as £5 in companies expanding access to education, clean water, renewable energy...
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Wave power is being harnessed to grow beautiful artificial coral reefs for coastal protection and marine life. Coastlines and...
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This fun social video-sharing platform built for young creators makes daily actions easy in the ultimate competition to save the...
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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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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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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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Welcome to the future of recycling. A waste-sorting AI robot that can tell a Coke bottle from a Pepsi one? It...
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Forget Google! Ecosia is a search engine that uses profits to fund reforestation projects in the world's most threatened biodiversity...
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If a tree falls in the forest, and there's nobody around to hear, does it make a sound? It does when the trees have electronic...
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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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In the least mechanised place on earth, tractors and farming machinery are expensive. This agritech app connects smallholder farmers to tractor owners...
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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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Rain might be rare in the Moroccan desert, but there is no shortage of mist. Thanks to North Africa's largest fog...
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Water is getting the digital treatment. Within a network of innovative control towers in Spain, people are coming together with...
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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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Imagine if voting was more representative of what people really wanted? That‘s exactly what is happening in Argentina thanks to these...
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In an organic farm in an ancient city in Galilee, a materials scientist is reversing environmental damage using the green...
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An innovative system of huge yellow floodgates is blocking the Adriatic Sea to hold back the tide, inspired by Moses parting the...
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Is there water on Mars? This technology was designed to tell us, but now it’s being used to see leaks...
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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 startup in India is using AI to address the growing urban problems of water loss and pollution, by predicting...
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Come rain or shine, knowing weather patterns is pure gold when it comes to food security. But in the tropics, you...
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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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Imagine going from 30 to 80 years old in ten minutes by slipping on an age simulation suit and going...
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Together we can fix our broken politics. Sortition Foundation want to create a real democracy of the people, by the people, and for the...
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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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Take a virtual walk through space and time with a walking audio book that tells a new story of the...
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Can words posted to social media suggest where a genocide might happen? This rumour police in Kenya fights misinformation with...
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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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In São Paulo, people are using the Cataki app to swipe right on cleaner streets, protecting the environment, and improving...
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Silver Sharers is a sharing scheme with a heart that matches homeowners over-50 in London with flatmates, providing long-term and...
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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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"Whoever you are, wherever you are, you only have to know one thing. You can learn anything." That's the motto...
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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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Five years have passed since Berlin-based Vincent Zimmer and Markus Kressler launched Kiron Open Higher Education, the first online university...
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Some clothes become our office staples or Saturday night favourites – but, increasingly, some only ever have a place in our...
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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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No, not edible clothes – but even better. MycoTEX are creating custom-made clothing from mushrooms, that produce zero waste and...
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When does fashion look like magic? When the fibres it’s made from are created not from animals, plants or plastics...
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While mobile phones bring huge benefits – such as accessibility to information, ability to set up mobile payments and help...
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Despite being born over a thousand years before the invention of the computer, Saint Isidore of Seville is considered the ‘Patron Saint...
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Imagine if you could donate clean air to the city simply by buying a ring or set of cufflinks? But...
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As in every design endeavour, it all started with a problem. In fact, two of them. The first encountered problem...
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The Littery is Latvia’s answer to reducing the man-made problem of litter waste with the most global of incentives: money....
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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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Want a world with cleaner air? Try on this coat for size. Aldo Sollazzo and the team at WEARPURE.tech have created a...
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Most farmers in advanced economies take advantage of a wealth of agricultural information services to support farm management and increase...
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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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"The world needs 70 percent more food right now and there are two ways to address that: deforest to create...
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Currently only 30% of roles in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are held by women. In...
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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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The April morning sun beats down on Kontagora, a lively market town in central Nigeria. Generators hum as milling machines...
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Games can transform how we live, work and play. This UN programme proves how people of all backgrounds and ages can show...
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