CHNGMKR — Cartography of changemakers
CHNGMKR is a living cartography of 2,500+ people reshaping how change happens, curated by a community of Chief Curators. The interactive map requires JavaScript. Below is a short preview of the field.
- Fortuna Cools — Manila, Republic of the Philippines
Fortuna Cools was born from a simple but powerful idea: to turn agricultural waste into something useful and sustainable. Founded by a team passionate about both environmental impact and practical sol
- Growing Communities — London, UK
Growing Communities is a grassroots social enterprise dedicated to creating a sustainable, local food system that benefits both people and the planet. Based in Hackney, London, the initiative began in
- Rainforest Connection (RFCx) — San Francisco, USA
Founded in 2013 by Topher White (physicist, former ITER nuclear fusion engineer), RFCx transforms recycled smartphones into solar-powered acoustic listening devices mounted in treetops. Each Guardian
- Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) — Montgomery, USA
Founded by Bryan Stevenson, the son of a sharecropper from Delaware who became one of America's most celebrated lawyers and authors. Based in Montgomery, Alabama — the former capital of the Confederac
- Rotor — Brussels, Belgium
Rotor is a Belgian design collective that specializes in the reuse of building materials, promoting sustainable practices in architecture and construction. The collective salvages materials from demol
- Hepburn Wind — Leonards Hill, Australia
Hepburn Wind is a pioneering community-owned wind farm that has transformed how renewable energy is generated and shared. Located in Australia, the project was driven by local residents who came toget
- Ursula Hirschmann — Brussels, Belgium
German-Italian antifascist activist (1913-1991), born in Berlin, exiled to Paris and Italy after Hitler's rise. In 1941, confined with her partner Eugenio Colorni and Altiero Spinelli on the island of
- Schumacher College — Dartington, UK
An ecological education centre in Dartington, Devon — founded in 1991 in the spirit of E.F. Schumacher ('Small is Beautiful'). Offers short courses and postgraduate programs in ecological design, rege
- 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
- Why Kamikatsu — Kamikatsu, Japan
Kamikatsu is a Japanese town of 1,500 people that achieved zero waste: sorting rubbish into 45 categories, recycling or composting over 80% of materials, with no incineration and no landfill. No garba
- 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
- Elle Barbara — Montreal, Canada
Multidisciplinary artist, activist, and community organizer known for their work in LGBTQ+ and intersectional social justice movements. Elle Barbara creates art and advocacy that challenges normative
- My Human Kit — Nantes, France
Founded by Nicolas Huchet — who lost his hand at 18 and built his own open-source 3D-printed bionic prosthesis for under ,000. My Human Kit runs the Humanlab, the first fablab entirely dedicated to
- Robries — Surabaya, Indonesia
Robries was founded with a mission to turn waste into beauty, creating high-quality, handcrafted furniture and decor from recycled plastic. Driven by a commitment to sustainability and craftsmanship,
- Cecosesola (Right Livelihood Laureate) — 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
- Studio Roosegaarde — Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde runs a studio at the intersection of art, technology and urban design. GROW: luminescent light installations in agricultural fields that use specific light
- 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
- MIT Media Lab — Boston, MA, USA
The MIT Media Lab, founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte, was created as a revolutionary space where technology, art, science, and design intersect without boundaries. Guided by an ethos of experimen
- V Cycle — Hong Kong, China
VCycle was founded by Eric Swinton, who saw an opportunity to address plastic waste while uplifting those often overlooked in society. With a focus on creating a “virtuous cycle,” Eric launched VCycle
- Philippe Albanel — Lyon, France
Philippe Albanel is the founder of Chez Daddy, a network of intergenerational cafés designed to combat senior isolation by rebuilding social connections within neighborhoods. He is reimagining local c
- New Room — Montreal, Canada
New Room was founded by Erin and Danni, a team of Change Designers committed to reimagining the ways we work, live, play & relate. They specialize in human-centred learning, inclusive leadership devel
- ScarabTech — Johannesburg, South Africa
ScarabTech was founded by a team passionate about redefining waste as a resource, inspired by nature’s recyclers, like scarab beetles. Frustrated by the mountains of organic waste filling landfills, t
- La Maestra — Paris, France
La Maestra, founded by conductor Claire Gibault, is an international competition empowering women conductors. It challenges gender inequality in classical music and opens new doors for women to lead m
- Live Love Recycle — Beyruth, Lebanon
Live Love Recycle began as an act of resilience in the face of crisis. Founded by George Bitar during Lebanon’s waste management crisis, the initiative provided a lifeline for a city drowning in garba
- Fairphone — Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fairphone began as a bold idea from its founder, Bas van Abel, who wanted to challenge the way electronic devices are made. Frustrated by the environmental and social costs hidden in the tech industry
- Samsø Energy Academy — Samsø, Denmark
On Samsø, a Danish island of 3,700 people, a community-driven energy transition made it the world's first 100% renewable energy island in 2007 — powered by 11 onshore and 10 offshore wind turbines own
- 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
- Bôndy — Antananarivo, Madagascar
Bôndy is an environmental initiative that aims to connect people with nature while fostering sustainable practices in everyday life. Through educational programs, eco-conscious projects, and community
- BIOfábrik — Guayaquil, Ecuador
Cesar Silva Brito is a changemaker in Ecuador, dedicated to empowering communities through sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation. Working closely with local farmers, Cesar promotes or
- Alenvi — Paris, France
French startup reimagining home care for the elderly with a model that dignifies both caregivers and clients. Alenvi organises caregivers into self-managed communities ('cohortes') of 5-8 people respo
- 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
- Lucas Davaze — Médiation Climat — Paris, France
Lucas Davaze is a French glaciologist who turned his scientific expertise into a mission of public engagement. Through Médiation Climat, he creates immersive field interventions — on glaciers, in citi
- Fonds Explore — Concarneau, France
Fonds Explore is a French foundation that supports expeditions and innovative projects focused on environmental exploration and conservation. Founded by French explorer Christian de Marliave, the foun
- Olivier Roellinger — Cancale, France
A culinary pioneer and former 3-star Michelin chef, Olivier Roellinger blends gastronomy with activism, advocating for sustainable fishing and biodiversity. His unconventional path and deep respect fo
- Hasdeo — Raipur, India
Alok Shukla is a passionate advocate for Indigenous rights and environmental justice in India, known for his work with the Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan. Deeply committed to protecting tribal lands and
- Muriel Richard-Noca — Lausanne, Switzerland
Co-founder of ClearSpace, Murielle is tackling the growing crisis of space debris by developing cutting-edge technologies to capture and deorbit space junk sustainably. Her mission: keeping Earth’s or
- Mellon Foundation — New York, USA
The largest funder of arts and humanities in the United States, with $8 billion in assets. Founded by the Mellon banking family, led since 2018 by poet and scholar Elizabeth Alexander. Mellon funds un
- InovaYa — Lyon, France
InovaYa is an organization dedicated to advancing sustainable water solutions through innovation and collaboration. With a mission to make clean water accessible and to promote responsible water manag
- 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
- Cesar Jung-Harada / Protei — Hong Kong, China
Franco-Japanese inventor Cesar Jung-Harada created Protei — an open-source, shape-shifting sailing drone capable of trawling ocean surfaces for oil, plastic and pollution. Unlike rigid-hulled vessels,
- Biltoki — Anglet, France
Biltoki is a French social entreprise that revitalizes traditional markets by creating vibrant, community-focused food halls. Founded in the Basque region, Biltoki specializes in transforming underuse
- Copenhill — Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhill, also known as Amager Bakke, is an innovative waste-to-energy plant and recreational facility located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Designed by the Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BI
- 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 — ma
- Pierre Rosanvallon — Paris, France
French historian and sociologist born in 1948. Professor at the Collège de France from 2001 to 2018, holder of the chair in the modern and contemporary history of politics. His writing renews the inte
- 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 —
- Low-Tech Lab — Concarneau, France
A 6-year circumnavigation on catamaran Nomade des Mers (2016–2022), documenting and testing low-tech solutions worldwide — from Malagasy spirulina cultivation to Senegalese recycled wind turbines. Eve
- Proxima Fusion — Munich, Allemagne
Munich-based fusion energy startup, spun out of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. Proxima is developing the Quasar stellarator — a compact, continuous fusion reactor based on the advanced W
- 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
- Mondragon Corporation — Mondragon, Spain
The world's largest industrial worker cooperative federation, founded in 1956 in Arrasate (Mondragon), Basque Country, by engineer José María Arizmendiarrieta and five young engineers. Today: 80,000+
- SOLshare — Dhaka, Bangladesh
The world's first peer-to-peer solar electricity trading network, operating in rural Bangladesh since 2015. SOLshare's smart boxes (SOLbox) connect off-grid homes equipped with solar panels into a loc
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