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.
- Heman Bekele · Annandale, United States
Heman Bekele is a young Ethiopian-American inventor who developed a low-cost bar of soap designed to deliver skin cancer treating compounds, an idea rooted in memories of laborers working long hours u - InovaYa · Lyon, France
InovaYa, based in Lyon, France, develops water-purification systems and water-management tools, combining technology and research to make clean water more accessible and manage water resources respons - 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 - Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity · Bra, Italy
Founded in 1989 in Bra (Piedmont) by Carlo Petrini as a joyful act of resistance against a McDonald's opening near Rome's Trevi Fountain. Slow Food has grown into a global movement for good, clean and - Florence Rizzo · Paris, France
Florence Rizzo, an Ashoka Fellow, co-founded Ecolhuma in 2012, convinced that education is the powerful lever to build a better world. For over a decade, she has worked to empower teachers, school lea - 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 - 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 - 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, - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Cecosesola · Barquisimeto, Venezuela
A Venezuelan cooperative network operating since 1967 in Barquisimeto, Lara State. Cecosesola runs 50 member cooperatives providing food markets, healthcare, funeral services, savings and credit to ov - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Plastic Odyssey · Marseille, France
A laboratory ship sailing the world's coastlines since 2022 to demonstrate open-source micro-recycling solutions for plastic waste in under-equipped regions. Stopovers in Senegal, Kenya, Mauritius, Ta - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Malcom Ferdinand · Fort-de-France, Martinique
Chercheur au CNRS, rattaché à l'IRISSO à l'université Paris-Dauphine, Malcom Ferdinand est ingénieur en environnement de formation et docteur en philosophie politique. Originaire de la Martinique, il - 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 - Susan Neiman · Potsdam, Germany
Susan Neiman is an American moral philosopher who has directed the Einstein Forum in Potsdam since 2000, a public institute that pulls philosophers, scientists and artists into conversation with audie - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Robries · Surabaya, Indonesia
Robries designs and handcrafts furniture and décor from recycled plastic in Surabaya, Indonesia, turning discarded plastic into durable, functional pieces. - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Simone Schwarz-Bart · Goyave, Guadeloupe
Born in 1938, novelist and playwright Simone Schwarz-Bart gave Caribbean literature one of its foundational works, The Bridge of Beyond (Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle, 1972), a portrait of a linea - Pierre Rosanvallon · Paris, France
French historian and sociologist born in 1948. Professor at the Collège de France from 2001 to 2018, holder of the chair in the modern and contemporary history of politics. His writing renews the inte - 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 - 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 - Philippe Albanel · Lyon, France
Philippe Albanel is the founder of Chez Daddy, a network of intergenerational cafés designed to combat senior isolation by rebuilding social connections within neighborhoods. He is reimagining local c - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Growing Communities · London, UK
Growing Communities is a grassroots social enterprise dedicated to creating a sustainable, local food system that benefits both people and the planet. Based in Hackney, London, the initiative began in
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