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.
- 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 - 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 - 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 - Sweet Om — Lamentin (Guadeloupe), France
Thérèse Bandou-Cabidoche is the founder of Sweet Om, a project in Guadeloupe that blends Creole gardening with wellness practices. Her work focuses on reconnecting people with nature through sustainab - Café Marulanda — Yotoco, Colombia
Rigoberto Marulanda is a former FARC guerrilla member who has transformed his life through sustainable coffee farming. Born as the youngest son of Manuel Marulanda, a FARC leader, Rigoberto was deeply - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Les Fruits Défendus — Montreal, Canada
Les Fruits Defendus is Montreal’s volunteer-led urban fruit harvesting collective hosted by Santropol Roulant. The initiative connects local fruit tree owners with volunteer harvesters and helps ensur - 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 - 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 - 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. Ever - Le Petit Vélo Jaune — Bruxelles, Belgium
Le Petit Vélo Jaune strengthens families by offering parental guidance and mentorship. Founded in France, the association pairs trained volunteers with parents of young children to provide regular, lo - 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 - 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 - Audrey Bourolleau — Lévis-Saint-Nom, France
Audrey Bourolleau is the co-founder of Hectar, a 600-hectare pilot farm near Paris dedicated to agricultural innovation, training, and inspiring new vocations. She advocates for an agri-cultural revol - 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 - 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 - Fratries — Nantes, France
A French social enterprise creating shared housing where young adults with and without intellectual disabilities live together in urban apartments. The model: pairs of housemates (one with disability, - 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, regen - 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 - 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 - Notpla — London, UK
A London material science startup making fully biodegradable packaging from seaweed and plants. Co-founded by Pierre Paslier and Rodrigo García González, former Royal College of Art students inspired - 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. - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Philo Boxe — Montreal, Canada
Philo Boxe trains young men and women aged 12 to 17 in boxing and in life. Based in France, the programme pairs physical training with workshops on philosophy, teaching morals, principles, and the val - World Access for the Blind — Los Angeles, USA
Daniel Kish lost both eyes to retinoblastoma as an infant and taught himself echolocation, clicking with his tongue to navigate his environment using sound reflections, like a bat or dolphin. He can r - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Ibn Al Baytar / Zoubida Charrouf — Rabat, Maroc
Professor Zoubida Charrouf of Mohammed V University in Rabat has devoted 30 years to researching the argan tree (Argania spinosa), Morocco's endemic 'tree of life'. Her scientific work established the - 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 - 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 - 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, - Shinichiro Ogata — Tokyo, Japan
Ogata is a designer and the founder of Simplicity Co. He lives and works in Tokyo and Paris. Having established Simplicity Co. in 1998, Ogata aspires to establish a contemporary way of being inspired - Institut Océanographique Paul Ricard — île des Embiez, France
Founded in 1966 by Paul Ricard on the Île des Embiez (Var), this private oceanographic institute has conducted 50+ years of independent marine biology research in the Mediterranean. Studies coral mead - Charles-Edouard Notredame — Lille, France
Psychiatrist at CHU Lille, Charles-Edouard pioneers new approaches in child psychiatry and suicide prevention. His work pushes the boundaries of traditional mental health care, advocating for a more c - 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 - 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 - Father Manuel Ruiz — Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Father Manuel Ruiz, a priest in the Dominican Republic, leads the Revolución Plastique project in El Dique, organising community recycling that turns discarded plastics into usable resources and local - 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 - 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. - 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. - 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 - 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
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