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.
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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, - 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 - 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 - Ford Foundation · New York, USA
One of the world's largest philanthropic organizations, with $16 billion in assets. Founded in 1936, the Ford Foundation focuses on reducing inequality worldwide, funding social justice, democratic pa - 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 - Vela · Paris, France
Founded by record-setting solo ocean racer François Gabart, Vela Transport develops low-emission transport solutions, extending his commitment to sustainability beyond ocean racing. - Françoise Vergès · Saint-Denis, La Réunion
Politologue née en 1952 et élevée à La Réunion, Françoise Vergès travaille sur les héritages de l'esclavage colonial, le racisme d'État et les féminismes décoloniaux. Elle a présidé le Comité national - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Instituto Terra · Aimorés, Brasil
Founded in 1998 by legendary photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado on the family farm in Aimorés, Minas Gerais. When they inherited the land, it was a degraded cattle ranch, - Germaine Acogny · Toubab Dialaw, Senegal
Germaine Acogny is a Senegalese-French dancer, choreographer and teacher widely described as the mother of contemporary African dance. Born in Benin in 1944 and raised in Senegal, she built a techniqu - Windcoop · Lorient, France
Windcoop is a French cooperative, based in Lorient, building and operating wind-powered cargo sailboats for low-emission maritime freight. Founded by sailors, environmental advocates and companies, it - 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 - 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 - 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 - Hepburn Wind · Leonards Hill, Australia
Hepburn Wind is a community-owned wind farm in Victoria, Australia. Its two turbines, nicknamed “Gale” and “Gusto”, generate enough clean electricity to power around 2,000 homes, with surplus revenue - 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 - Live Love Recycle · Beyruth, Lebanon
Founded by George Bitar during Lebanon's waste crisis, Live Love Recycle runs a free recycling service in Beirut using bicycle couriers and a mobile app, making household recycling accessible while cr - Olivier Roellinger · Cancale, France
French chef from Cancale in Brittany. He earned three Michelin stars and returned them in 2008 to step away from the star system; he now runs a spice house (Épices Roellinger) and a cookery school. A - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Plastic Flamingo · Muntinlupa City, Republic of the Philippines
Plastic Flamingo (The Plaf) collects and recycles plastic waste in the Philippines, turning it into construction materials such as planks and bricks, and involves local communities in collection and r - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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. - 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, - 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 - Yellow Dot Studios · Los Angeles, USA
YellowDot Studios, founded by Adam McKay (you know, the guy who made yelling about the climate crisis hilariously uncomfortable in Don’t Look Up), exists for one reason: to call out polluter BS and ta
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