Antikythera changemakers

The selection

• Aude OlivaCambridge, USARecommended by Katy Foraz
• BiofabricateNew York, USA“Suzanne Lee built the community that lets grown materials move from the lab into real making.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• C# See Sharp LabTurin, Italy“Gloria Campaner, a renowned pianist, has been giving concerts since the age of five and knows well the iron discipline musicians are subjected to during their training. That is why she created C#SeeSharp, a creative laboratory that allows those who study music (and not only them) to become acquainted with their emotional life without having to repress it. Because she has put her talent and her exceptional experience at the service of those following the same path as her, with a generosity that is in itself a true creative force.”Recommended by Ilaria Gaspari
• CarbocultureHelsinki, Finland“Turning farm waste into stable carbon is a quiet, useful answer to a loud problem.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• CERNGenève, Switzerland“Where we found the Higgs and invented the web, seventeen thousand scientists from a hundred countries work as one.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Cesar Jung-Harada / ProteiHong Kong, China“Cesar treats open-source hardware as a public good, and that generosity is rare in invention.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• CloudfisherAgadir, Morocco“Harvesting drinking water straight from fog is a simple idea that changes lives in dry places.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Donna HarawaySanta Cruz, USARecommended by Søren Hermansen
• EurasantéLille, France“Building a health-innovation cluster gave a whole region a future after industry.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• FairphoneAmsterdam, Netherlands“Bas showed that a phone can be built with repair and fair sourcing in mind, and that pressures the whole industry.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Final SparkLausanne, Switzerland“Running computation on living neurons sounds impossible, and they actually let scientists try it from anywhere.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Fonds ExploreConcarneau, France“They back the expeditions that help us understand a world we are still learning to protect.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Gesda FoundationGeneva, Switzerland“Anticipating where science and diplomacy will collide is patient, necessary work.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• InovaYaLyon, FranceRecommended by Simon Bernard
• Institut Océanographique Paul Ricardîle des Embiez, France“Fifty years of independent Mediterranean science, freely open to the public, is a gift.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Lucas Davaze, Médiation ClimatGRENOBLE, France“Taking people to stand on a dying glacier turns climate from an idea into a memory they keep.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Léna BlouPointe-à-Pitre, France“Léna Blou invites us to reflect on the colonial legacy and on how the body can become a space of emancipation, capable of transforming both an individual and an entire society.”Recommended by Coralie Custos Quatreville
• Malcom FerdinandFort-de-France, Martinique“Making visible the scandal of the pesticide chlordécone: what its past use tells us, what its present-day effects reveal, and what it means for future generations.”Recommended by Coralie Custos Quatreville
• Maram KaïréDakar, Senegal“He opens the sky to young Africans and shows that space science belongs to the whole continent.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Michel MayorGenève, Switzerland“He turned the question of whether we are alone into something we can actually measure.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• MIT Media LabBoston, MA, USA“I keep coming back to their belief that the best ideas live between disciplines.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Muriel Richard-NocaLausanne, SwitzerlandRecommended by Katy Foraz
• My Human KitNantes, France“Nicolas turned losing his hand into an open lab where people design their own solutions.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Nicolas NovaGenève, Switzerland“Nicolas taught designers to think like anthropologists, and it makes their work matter more.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• NotplaLondon, UK“Packaging you can eat or compost from seaweed feels like common sense we somehow forgot.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Novo Nordisk FoundationCopenhagen, Denmark“The scale of their giving is enormous, and I respect that so much of it reaches health that touches ordinary lives.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Oceans 2050USA“Alexandra is building the data that lets ocean farmers prove and earn from the carbon they store.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• OceanWellLos Angeles, USARecommended by Simon Bernard
• PhytobokazPetit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, France“Dr. Joseph gives Caribbean plant knowledge the scientific footing it always deserved.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Proxima FusionMunich, Germany“A European route to fusion that runs continuously is a bet worth watching closely.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Rainforest ConnectionSan Francisco, USA“Turning old phones into ears for the forest is the kind of frugal cleverness I love.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Raphaël HaumontParis-Saclay, FranceRecommended by Katy Foraz
• rrreefsZurich, Switzerland“Printing reef bricks shaped like real coral gives larvae a home to colonize, which is beautifully direct.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• ScarabTechJohannesburg, South AfricaRecommended by Simon Bernard
• Senseable City Lab (MIT)Cambridge, USA“Carlo Ratti reads the city as a living organism, and his work helps us see ourselves inside it.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Simonetta CheliFrascati, Italy“Turning satellite data into tools for climate decisions is European responsibility at its best.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• SOLshareDhaka, Bangladesh“Letting neighbors share their solar power makes clean energy reachable for the poorest, which is the whole point.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Studio RoosegaardeRotterdam, Netherlands“Daan makes technology into a conversation about the world we actually want.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Under The PoleConcarneau, France“They dive where science cannot easily reach and share everything they find.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Valldaura Self-Sufficient LabsBarcelona, Spain“A forest that is at once the resource, the classroom and the curriculum is my idea of a good lab.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• ÉcomarisMontréal, Canada“Making plankton visible is a quiet way to help us care about the half of our oxygen we never see.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume