CHNGMKR — Cartography of changemakers
CHNGMKR is a living cartography of 150+ people reshaping how change happens, curated by a community of Chief Curators. The interactive map requires JavaScript. Below is a short preview of the map.
- Sailcoop — Vannes, France
The first cooperative network for shared wind-powered passenger crossings, founded in France. Sailcoop connects travellers with certified sailing skippers for Atlantic and Bay of Biscay routes, replac
- Live Love Recycle — Beyruth, Lebanon
Founded by George Bitar during Lebanon's waste crisis, Live Love Recycle runs a free recycling service in Beirut using bicycle couriers and a mobile app, making household recycling accessible while cr
- Centre Culturel des Afro-descendants de Montréal - CCAM — Montreal, Canada
Cultural hub dedicated to promoting and preserving African-Canadian heritage in Montreal. CCAM is a space for artistic expression, cultural exchange, and community engagement. The organization plays a
- CERN — Genève, Suisse
The European Organization for Nuclear Research operates the world's largest particle physics laboratory on the French-Swiss border near Geneva. Home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27km ring tha
- Indigenous Clean Energy — Ottawa, Canada
Indigenous Clean Energy (ICE) was born out of Chris Henderson’s deep respect for Indigenous communities and their connection to the land. After years working in the clean energy sector, Chris realized
- Visionary Co. — Nagoya, Japan
A Nagoya-based care company that solved Japan's caregiver shortage with an unexpected strategy: recruiting bodybuilders. CEO Yusuke Niwa launched the 'Macho Caregiver' initiative in 2018 after foundin
- Libera Terra — Corleone, Italy
Born from the anti-mafia movement Libera, founded by Don Luigi Ciotti in 1995, Libera Terra produces food and wine on land legally confiscated from the mafia under Italy's 1996 Rognoni-La Torre law, p
- Nicolas Nova — Genève, Suisse
Nicolas Nova was a researcher, designer and author teaching at HEAD-Genève (Haute école d'art et de design de Genève), one of Europe's most innovative design schools. His research sits at the intersec
- Lazare — Nantes, France
Lazare creates shared homes where young professionals live alongside formerly homeless individuals, fostering genuine friendships and breaking social isolation through communal living and mutual suppo
- Hepburn Wind — Leonards Hill, Australia
Hepburn Wind is a community-owned wind farm in Victoria, Australia. Its two turbines, nicknamed “Gale” and “Gusto”, generate enough clean electricity to power around 2,000 homes, with surplus revenue
- Heatherwick Studio — London, UK
Founded in 1994 by Thomas Heatherwick, one of Britain's most distinctive designers. 250+ architects, designers and makers based in King's Cross, London. Known for: the UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 201
- Muriel Richard-Noca — Lausanne, Switzerland
Co-founder of ClearSpace, an EPFL spin-off based in Lausanne working on the removal of debris from Earth's orbit. ClearSpace is developing ClearSpace-1, a mission contracted by the European Space Agen
- Plastic Odyssey — Marseille, France
A laboratory ship sailing the world's coastlines since 2022 to demonstrate open-source micro-recycling solutions for plastic waste in under-equipped regions. Stopovers in Senegal, Kenya, Mauritius, Ta
- C# See Sharp Lab — Turin, Italy
A Turin-based research collective bridging AI engineers, lawyers and designers around algorithmic governance. The lab publishes open audits of automated decision systems used by Italian public adminis
- Malene Lunden — Samsø, Denmark
Co-architect of the Samsø community-energy story alongside Søren Hermansen, Malene Lunden has spent two decades turning the island's lived transition into a method other communities can borrow. She le
- Union United Church Food Bank — Montreal, Canada
Community-based food bank providing essential nutrition support to vulnerable populations. Located within Union United Church, this initiative addresses food insecurity by offering accessible food res
- La maison perchée — Paris, France
La Maison Perchée, based in Paris and online, empowers young adults living with mental health challenges through peer support and recovery tools designed by people with lived experience. Founded by pe
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation — London, UK
Founded in 2010 by Dame Ellen MacArthur, who broke the solo around-the-world sailing record in 2005, the Foundation is the world's foremost advocate and architect of the circular economy. It has shape
- InovaYa — Lyon, France
InovaYa, based in Lyon, France, develops water-purification systems and water-management tools, combining technology and research to make clean water more accessible and manage water resources respons
- Ceinture Aliment-Terre Liégeoise — Liège, Belgium
La Ceinture Alimentaire Liégeoise was born in 2013 from a grassroots movement of farmers, citizens, and activists in the Liège region who shared a vision of creating a sustainable, resilient, and loca
- Kadeya — Chicago, USA
Based in Chicago, Kadeya runs a closed-loop system for bottled water: reusable bottles and smart vending machines sanitise, refill and return each bottle, cutting single-use plastic.
- Mariam Keita — Conakry, Republic of Guinea
In Conakry, Guinea, Mariam Keita founded BGS Recyplast, a recycling and waste-reduction initiative that turns waste into income and jobs, with a focus on employing women and youth.
- Hannah Arendt — New York City, USA
German-American political theorist (1906-1975), one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Author of The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958) and Eichmann
- Brique par Brique — Montreal, Canada
Brique par brique is a nonprofit organization founded in 2016 by community organizers and professionals of colour in order to respond innovatively and from a social justice perspective to the need for
- Biofabricate — New York, USA
Founded by Suzanne Lee, former fashion designer and pioneer of biofabrication, Biofabricate is the world's leading summit and community for the science of growing materials from living organisms, bact
- Taisugar Circular Village — Taisugar, Taiwan
The Taisugar Circular Village is a pioneering eco-community project in Taiwan that seeks to create a sustainable model for living based on the principles of the circular economy. Developed by the Taiw
- Ralph Nader — Washington D.C, USA
American consumer-rights lawyer and political activist born in 1934. His 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed exposed the safety failures of the US auto industry, including the Chevrolet Corvair, and led dir
- Instituto Terra — Aimorés, Brasil
Founded in 1998 by legendary photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado on the family farm in Aimorés, Minas Gerais. When they inherited the land, it was a degraded cattle ranch,
- Amélie Nothomb — Paris, France
Belgian novelist born in Kobe, Japan, in 1966. Has published one novel every year since 1992 (Hygiène de l'assassin), translated into more than forty languages. Her best-known books, Stupeur et trembl
- Diazoma — Athens, Greece
A Greek civil society association founded in 2008 by former Interior Minister Stavros Benos to restore and revitalise the 150+ ancient theatres scattered across Greece, not as museum pieces, but as li
- Plastic Flamingo — Muntinlupa City, Republic of the Philippines
Plastic Flamingo (The Plaf) collects and recycles plastic waste in the Philippines, turning it into construction materials such as planks and bricks, and involves local communities in collection and r
- Ford Foundation — New York, USA
One of the world's largest philanthropic organizations, with 6 billion in assets. Founded in 1936, the Ford Foundation focuses on reducing inequality worldwide, funding social justice, democratic pa
- Tetsunari Iida — Tokyo, Japan
Iida Tetsunari is a pioneering advocate for renewable energy and sustainable policy, dedicated to transforming Japan’s energy landscape. As the founder of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policy (
- Valldaura Self-Sufficient Labs — Barcelona, Spain
A 100-hectare research campus in the Collserola Natural Park above Barcelona, run by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). Former residence of the Llimona family, transformed in
- BIOfábrik — Guayaquil, Ecuador
BIOfábrik works with farmers in Ecuador on organic agriculture and conservation, promoting soil-protecting and biodiversity-friendly practices, training rural communities and supporting food security.
- makesense — Paris, France
French NGO mobilizing collective intelligence for social and environmental entrepreneurs. Known for the 'Hold-up' format: 2-hour problem-solving sessions where volunteers help changemakers tackle conc
- Maram Kaïré — Dakar, Senegal
Maram Kaïré is a prominent Senegalese astrophysicist and founder of the African Institute for Space Science. Known for his commitment to making space science accessible across Africa, Kaïré works to p
- Cecosesola — Barquisimeto, Venezuela
A Venezuelan cooperative network operating since 1967 in Barquisimeto, Lara State. Cecosesola runs 50 member cooperatives providing food markets, healthcare, funeral services, savings and credit to ov
- Robries — Surabaya, Indonesia
Robries designs and handcrafts furniture and décor from recycled plastic in Surabaya, Indonesia, turning discarded plastic into durable, functional pieces.
- Floating Farm — Rotterdam, Netherlands
Floating Farm is a pioneering project based in the Netherlands that combines sustainability, innovation, and food production. Located on a floating platform in the Port of Rotterdam, the farm is desig
- Skate Anima — Curitiba, Brazil
Skate Anima is a project founded by Daniel Paniagua and Stevan Pinto in Brazil. This initiative is particularly inspiring for children and individuals with cerebral palsy and other disabilities, givin
- Cloudfisher — Agadir, Morocco
CloudFisher is an innovative water harvesting system that collects fresh water from fog in arid regions. Developed by the German non-profit organization WaterFoundation, CloudFisher is designed to be
- Eurasanté — Lille, France
Europe's largest healthcare and nutrition innovation cluster, built around the Lille-Métropole university hospital ecosystem. Eurasanté brings together 200+ companies, 20 public research labs and 20,0
- Aude Oliva — Cambridge, United States
Senior research scientist at MIT (CSAIL) and MIT director of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. Her research bridges human and machine perception: how people and computers recognise scenes and images, visual
- Olivier Roellinger — Cancale, France
French chef from Cancale in Brittany. He earned three Michelin stars and returned them in 2008 to step away from the star system; he now runs a spice house (Épices Roellinger) and a cookery school. A
- Donna Haraway — Santa Cruz, USA
Donna Haraway is a groundbreaking scholar, feminist, and philosopher whose work has reshaped how we think about science, technology, and the interconnectedness of life. Her influential 1985 essay, “A
- The Emergence Network — Chennai, India
The Emergence Network is not an organization in the traditional sense; it is a fugitive space, a murmuration, a question that lives in the cracks of our collapsing worlds. Co-convened by Bayo Akomolaf
- Atelier Berger Milà — Paris, France
Atelier Berger Milà is a European architecture studio founded in 2019 by Corentin Berger (Paris, 1988) and Gemma Milà Cartañá (Barcelona, 1987). The agency works across scales, from a single domestic
- Florence Rizzo — Paris, France
Florence Rizzo, an Ashoka Fellow, co-founded Ecolhuma in 2012, convinced that education is the powerful lever to build a better world. For over a decade, she has worked to empower teachers, school lea
- La Preuve par 7 — Paris, France
La Preuve par 7 is an experimental Paris-based urbanist collective working at the intersection of architecture, landscape and social design. They embed themselves in territories for the long term, map
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