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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 citie
- 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
- Plastic Flamingo — Muntinlupa City, Republic of the Philippines
Plastic Flamingo, or The Plaf, was founded to tackle the overwhelming issue of plastic waste in the Philippines with a unique approach that combines environmental impact with local empowerment. The or
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Éliane Vogel-Polsky — Brussels, Belgium
Belgian labour lawyer (1926-2015) and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles. She argued the landmark 1976 Defrenne v. Sabena case before the European Court of Justice, which held that the equ
- Sungai Watch — Bali, Indonesia
Sungai Watch was founded by three siblings, united by a shared love for Indonesia’s rivers and a determination to protect them from plastic pollution. Growing up surrounded by natural beauty, they saw
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Kadeya — Chicago, USA
Kadeya was born from a simple but urgent question: how can we reduce single-use plastic in our daily lives? Driven by this mission, Kadeya has created a revolutionary closed-loop system for bottled wa
- 350.org — Washington DC, USA
Global climate campaign organization founded in 2008 by author Bill McKibben and university friends. The name refers to 350 ppm CO2, the atmospheric concentration considered safe for life on Earth (we
- Ocean Alive — Setúbal, Portugal
Ocean Alive was founded by Raquel Gaspar, a marine biologist with a deep connection to Portugal’s Sado Estuary and a passion for protecting its fragile ecosystems. Witnessing the devastating impact of
- 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
- Nightline — Paris, France
Nightline offers peer-to-peer mental health support to students, creating a safe space where young people can share and seek help anonymously. The organization has become a vital service for student w
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Refugee Food Festival — Paris, France
Created in Paris in 2016 by Louis Martin and Marine Madelande (association Food Sweet Food) in partnership with the UNHCR. The Festival invites refugee chefs to cook in Michelin-starred restaurants 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
- Sylvio Ruiz — Bogotá, Colombia
Sylvio Ruiz is a key figure in the recycling sector in Bogotá, dedicated to improving the working conditions and dignity of recicladores (waste collectors) in the city. Passionate about defending the
- 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
- Carboculture — Helsinki, Finland
Carboculture is a Finnish company focused on capturing and storing carbon through innovative biochar technology. By converting agricultural and forestry waste into stable carbon, Carboculture helps re
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Aaron Sorkin — Los Angeles, USA
American screenwriter, playwright and director born in 1961. His work places political deliberation, journalistic responsibility and the doubts of decision-makers at the centre of contemporary narrati
- Aude Oliva — Cambridge, United States
Leading researcher and director at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Aude Oliva is shaping the future of artificial intelligence. Her work bridges cognitive neuroscience and AI, exploring how machines can be
- La Chartreuse — Aiguenoire, France
Chartreuse, the iconic French herbal liqueur crafted by Carthusian monks since 1737, has recently embraced a bold decision: to intentionally scale back production in line with its values of sustainabi
- Songhaï Center — Porto-Novo, Benin
The Songhaï Center was founded in 1985 by Father Godfrey Nzamujo in Benin, born from his vision to tackle poverty, unemployment, and environmental degradation through a model of self-reliance and sust
- Refettorio Paris — Paris, France
A solidarity restaurant in Paris founded by three-Michelin-star chef Massimo Bottura and his NGO Food for Soul, created for the Milano Expo 2015 and now operating permanently in the 10th arrondissemen
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- Paul Emilieu Studio — Paris, France
Paris-based interior architecture studio specialising in circular design and the reuse of existing materials. Each project begins with an inventory of what already exists: salvaged materials, reclaime
- Village Alzheimer — Dax, France
Opened in 2020 in Dax (Landes), the Village Landais Alzheimer is inspired by the Dutch Hogeweyk model: a 'normalised' life environment for 120 residents with Alzheimer's disease. Residents live in sha
- Shorefast Foundation / Fogo Island Inn — Fogo island, Canada
Zita Cobb grew up on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, a cod-fishing community devastated by the 1992 moratorium. She made a fortune in tech, then returned to build the Fogo Island Inn (rooms from $3,000/nig
- 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
- 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 We
- rrreefs — Zurich, Suisse
A Swiss deep-tech startup printing 3D reef bricks that mimic the complex micro-geometry of natural coral structures. The design, derived from coral CT scans and fluid dynamics research, maximises surf
- 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
- Under The Pole — Concarneau, France
Scientific sailing expeditions diving beneath polar and tropical seas to collect data inaccessible to surface science. Led by explorer-divers Ghislain Bardout and Emmanuelle Périé-Bardout from their r
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