CHNGMKR — Cartography of changemakers
CHNGMKR is a living cartography of 2,500+ 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- Écomaris — Montréal, Canada
The Planctonarium: a unique scientific and sensory experience designed by Simon Paquin to make the ocean's invisible life visible. Écomaris creates immersive installations based on live and photograph
- 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
- TOWT — Le Havre, France
TransOceanic Wind Transport (TOWT), founded in 2011, built and operated the world's two largest sailing cargo ships, Anemos and Artemis (81m, 1,090 tonnes capacity), transporting goods between Le Havr
- 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 ,000. My Human Kit runs the Humanlab, the first fablab entirely dedicated to d
- 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
- We Are Sista — Paris, France
Founded by Tatiana Jama, We Are Sista is a community and startup accelerator for women entrepreneurs of color in France. Provides mentoring, funding access, network and visibility to founders who are
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Banlieues Santé — Bondy, France
Founded in 2012 by Abdelaali El Badaoui in the Paris suburb of Bondy, Banlieues Santé deploys peer-to-peer health education in French working-class neighborhoods where institutional healthcare is dist
- 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
- 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
- Chromosome Resto — Nantes, France
A Nantes restaurant fully run by people with Down syndrome, combining gastronomy and social inclusion. Named 'Chromosome' in reference to the 21st chromosome that causes trisomy 21, claiming the word
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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,
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Malene Lunden — Samsø, Denmark
Co-architect of the Samsø community-energy story alongside Søren Hermansen, Malene Lunden has spent two decades turning the island's lived transition into a method other communities can borrow. She le
- 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,
- Lightyear (solar car) — Helmond, Netherlands
A Dutch startup founded by five former Solar Team Eindhoven engineers with a singular ambition: make a car that charges itself from sunlight. The Lightyear 0 (2022) was the first commercially delivere
- 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
- 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
- HEAD-Genève (Nicolas Nova) — Genève, Suisse
Nicolas Nova is 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 intersect
- 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
- Michelin BibLab / David Szymanowski — Clermont-Ferrand, France
Michelin's internal innovation incubator, based in Clermont-Ferrand, accelerates circular economy and sustainable mobility projects within and adjacent to the tyre giant's ecosystem. David Szymanowski
- 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
- 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
- Studio Marjan Van Aubel — Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dutch designer Marjan Van Aubel has made solar energy beautiful and wearable. Her Caretaker series integrates photovoltaic cells into stained glass panels that double as energy-generating windows. She
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- NaTakallam — New York, USA
Arabic for we speak. NaTakallam was founded in 2015 in Beirut by Aline Sara during the Syrian refugee crisis, connecting displaced people as online language tutors to learners worldwide. Model: refuge
- AECOM Natural Capital Laboratory — Inverness, UK
AECOM's Natural Capital Laboratory near Inverness, Scotland, set in 100 acres of Scottish Highlands near Loch Ness, is a living test environment for ecological restoration: native woodland regeneratio
- 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
- Royal De Luxe — Nantes, France
Founded in 1979, Royal De Luxe is the world's foremost street theatre company, led by Jean-Luc Courcoult. Their signature works involve giant mechanical marionettes, the Sultan's Elephant, the Little
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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