CHNGMKR · Cartography of changemakers
CHNGMKR is a living cartography of people reshaping how change happens, curated by a community of curators, led by Chief Curator Florian Guillaume. The interactive map requires JavaScript. Below is a short preview of the map.
- Wild Wild Women · Mumbai, India
Wild Wild Women is billed as India's first all-women hip-hop collective, bringing together rappers, singers and producers from different cities and languages who met through the country's growing unde - 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 - Africa Center Hong Kong · Hong Kong, China
Innocent Mutanga fled Zimbabwe’s secret police for Hong Kong, lived on the streets, won the right as a refugee to study, and now works at Goldman Sachs. He founded Africa Center Hong Kong to promote c - 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 - 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 - 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 - Oceans 2050 · USA
Founded by Alexandra Cousteau, granddaughter of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Oceans 2050 is a science-driven organisation restoring ocean biodiversity through regenerative ocean farming: seaweed, shellfish - 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 - 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 - Etienne Jarrier · Paris, France
Étienne Jarrier is the conductor and co-founder of the Orchestre du Nouveau Monde, a collective of young musicians committed to social and climate justice. Founded in 2020, the orchestra challenges th - 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 - Abderazzak Benchaabane · Marrakech, Maroc
Director of the Jardin Majorelle and Musée Berbère in Marrakech, conservator of the Yves Saint Laurent estate, and professor of botany at the Cadi Ayyad University. Abderazzak Benchaabane has spent 40 - 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. - 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 - 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 - 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 - Nyaguthii Chege · Nairobi, Kenya
Nyaguthii Chege chairs the Board of Directors of The Green Belt Movement, the Kenyan environmental organisation founded by Wangari Maathai in 1977. The movement empowers rural women through tree plant - Svalbard Global Seed Vault · Svalbard, Norway
The world's most comprehensive backup of crop diversity: 1.3 million+ seed varieties, stored in a mountain vault on the Norwegian Arctic island of Svalbard at -18°C. Opened in 2008. Owned by the Norwe - 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 - 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 - Rotor Deconstruction · Bruxelles, Belgium
Brussels-based worker cooperative (founded 2016, spun out of research collective Rotor founded 2005) that dismantles, processes and resells reusable building materials salvaged from demolition sites a - GUILD · Singapore, Republic of Singapore
GroundUp Innovation Labs for Development, founded by Ibnur Rashad, is an organization dedicated to fostering sustainable and socially impactful solutions through community-driven innovation. With a ba - Equal Justice Initiative · 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 Confederacy - Wael Shawky · Alexandria, Egypt
Wael Shawky is an Egyptian artist known for films, performances and installations that reexamine historical narratives, often retelling events like the Crusades from non-Western perspectives. His cele - 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 - Copenhill · Copenhagen, Denmark
Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), CopenHill is Copenhagen's waste-to-energy power plant topped with a 490m ski slope, the world's tallest climbing wall (85m) and a hiking trail, opened 2019. It p - 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 - 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 - Wanjira Mathai · Nairobi, Kenya
Wanjira Mathai is a Kenyan environmental advocate leading climate and landscape restoration work across Africa as Managing Director for Africa and Global Partnerships at the World Resources Institute. - 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 - 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 - Café Joyeux · Paris, France
Founded in Rennes in 2017 by Yann and Lydwine Bucaille, Café Joyeux is the first international chain of café-restaurants run by people with cognitive and intellectual disabilities (Down syndrome, auti - Raphaël Haumont · Paris-Saclay, France
Physicist-chemist and lecturer at Université Paris-Saclay. He co-founded the Centre Français d'Innovation Culinaire with chef Thierry Marx, bringing materials science into the kitchen: texture, nutrit - Nikole Hannah-Jones · New York, United States
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an investigative journalist covering racial injustice in the United States. She created The 1619 Project, the New York Times Magazine issue and ongoing initiative reframing Amer - 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 - Robries · Surabaya, Indonesia
Robries designs and handcrafts furniture and décor from recycled plastic in Surabaya, Indonesia, turning discarded plastic into durable, functional pieces. - Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim · N'Djamena, Chad
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim grew up in a nomadic Mbororo community in Chad, where life was shaped by the land and the changing climate. As droughts and resource conflicts intensified, she saw the need to m - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - ScarabTech · Johannesburg, South Africa
Based in Johannesburg, ScarabTech converts organic and food waste into clean energy, natural fertilisers and other resources. Its on-site technology lets homes, farms and businesses process their own - 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 - 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. - Plateau Urbain · Paris, France
Paris-based urban development company specialising in temporary use of vacant urban spaces. Transforms empty offices, warehouses and building sites into temporary cultural, artisan and associative spa - Angela Davis · Oakland, United States
Angela Davis is an American political activist, philosopher and author whose work has shaped how movements think about prisons, race, gender and class. She became internationally known around her 1972 - 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 - Ama, Japanese Freediving Women · Mie Prefecture, Japan
The Ama are Japanese and Korean women who freedive without oxygen equipment to harvest abalone, sea urchin, oysters and seaweed from the ocean floor, a practice documented for over 2,000 years. Primar - 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 - Novo Nordisk Foundation · Copenhagen, Denmark
The Novo Nordisk Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the world, dedicated to improving global health and promoting sustainable development. Founded in Denmark, the foundation provi
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