CHNGMKR — Cartography of changemakers
CHNGMKR is a living cartography of 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.
- Billion Oyster Project — New York, USA
Restoring oyster reefs to New York Harbor, one of the most ambitious urban ecological restoration projects in the world. The reefs filter 50 gallons of water per oyster per day, create habitat for hun - Enzo Tortora — Milan, Italy
Italian journalist and television presenter (1928-1988), host of the historic Sunday-evening variety show Portobello on RAI. In June 1983 he was arrested in front of the cameras on false charges of ma - Kéré Architecture — Berlin, Germany
Kéré Architecture is an award-winning architectural firm founded by Diébédo Francis Kéré, a Burkinabe architect known for his innovative and sustainable designs. Kéré, who was born in Burkina Faso and - 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 - Birdgirl (Mya-Rose Craig) — Bristol, UK
Mya-Rose Craig, aka 'Birdgirl', is a British-Bangladeshi ornithologist, conservationist and climate activist who has observed 6,000+ bird species, making her the youngest person to achieve that milest - Jazzile — Putignano, Italy
Social cooperative in Putignano, Puglia, supporting wine producers around a shared community cellar. It is built on agroecology and natural, artisanal winemaking, and lets growers pool the means of pr - 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 - Fortuna Cools — Manila, Republic of the Philippines
Based in Manila, Fortuna Cools turns discarded coconut husks into durable, eco-friendly insulation materials, working with local farmers to add income while reducing agricultural waste. - 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 - Studio Other Spaces — Berlin, Germany
Studio Other Spaces, co-founded by artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann, is an interdisciplinary studio that explores the intersection of art and architecture to create experimental - 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 - Sara Turetta — Cernavodă, Romania
Italian advocate who left a Milan advertising career to found Save the Dogs and Other Animals in 2002, after a trip to post-Ceaușescu Romania revealed the scale of stray-animal suffering. The NGO runs - 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 - 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 - 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 - Simonetta Cheli — Frascati, Italy
She leads the European Space Agency’s Earth Observation programmes. Her work turns satellite data into operational tools for climate action and public decision-making. I see her as a model for alignin - Sungai Watch — Bali, Indonesia
Founded by three siblings in Bali, Sungai Watch works to stop plastic pollution in Indonesia's rivers. It installs floating barriers that capture waste before it reaches the ocean and runs community r - 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 - 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. - 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 - 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 owne - Final Spark — Lausanne, Suisse
A Swiss biocomputing startup building processors from living human neurons, grown from stem cells and maintained alive on multi-electrode arrays. The FinalSpark Neuroplatform offers remote access to o - 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 - Wildlife Conservation Fund / Hélène Grimaud — New York, USA
World-renowned French pianist Hélène Grimaud founded the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York, one of North America's premier wolf sanctuaries and breeding programs. Grimaud grew up with - 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 - The Child Movement — Greater Noida, India
Licypriya Kangujam began her journey as an environmental activist at just eight years old, driven by a powerful sense of responsibility to protect her community and the planet. Her commitment to clima - 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. - Rainforest Connection — 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 - 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 $1,000. My Human Kit runs the Humanlab, the first fablab entirely dedicated to d - 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 - Never Was Average — Montreal, Canada
As community engineers, they help organizations develop practices, design initiatives and programs, and create campaigns that cultivate an inclusive culture. Through partnerships, they collaborate wit - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Michel Mayor — Genève, Suisse
Swiss astrophysicist at the University of Geneva who in 1995 co-discovered with Didier Queloz the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star: 51 Pegasi b. That discovery, using the radial velocity techn - Transition Network — Totnes, UK
Rob Hopkins launched the Transition Towns movement in Totnes, UK, in 2006, asking the question: 'What would life look like if we designed the transition away from oil?' The Transition model spread to - MareBlu — Garabito, Costa Rica
MareBlu is an initiative born from a love for the ocean and a commitment to combat plastic pollution. With a focus on preserving marine ecosystems, MareBlu organizes large-scale ocean cleanup efforts - OceanWell — Los Angeles, USA
Oceanwell produces mineral-rich drinking water drawn from deep-ocean water, founded by a team of scientists and environmental advocates in Los Angeles. It runs a closed-loop system of refillable, reus - 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 - Grain de Sail — Concarneau, France
Grain de Sail, une entreprise française qui transporte vin biologique, café et cacao à travers l'Atlantique sur ses propres voiliers-cargos. La société exploite désormais deux navires commerciaux, pro - 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 - A Buon Diritto — Rome, Italy
Roman civil-rights association founded in 2001 by sociologist and former senator Luigi Manconi. A Buon Diritto Onlus defends prisoners, migrants, the chronically ill and those in precarious legal situ - Lucas Davaze, Médiation Climat — GRENOBLE, 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 citie - Kufunda Learning Village — Harare, Zimbabwe
Kufunda Village is the dream that Maaianne Knuth carried across continents, from Denmark, where she was raised, to Zimbabwe, the land of her ancestors. Torn between two worlds, Maaianne felt the pull - 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 - Navdanya — Dehradun, India
Vandana Shiva is an internationally renowned environmental activist, author, and scholar from India, known for her advocacy of biodiversity, sustainable agriculture, and the rights of small farmers. A - Phytobokaz — Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, France
Phytobôkaz is a pioneering laboratory based in Guadeloupe, dedicated to the research and development of plant-based medicines and cosmetics rooted in Creole and Caribbean medicinal traditions. Founded - Potato head — Seminyak, Indonesia
Founded by Ronald Akili in Bali, Potato Head is a hospitality venue built around sustainable design and low-waste operations — reclaimed building materials and zero-waste practices — bringing together - 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.
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