Antikythera changemakers

The selection

• Aude OlivaCambridge, USARecommended by Katy Foraz
• Bernard StieglerParis, France“A philosopher of technology (1952-2020), Bernard Stiegler saw every tool as both remedy and poison. He championed an economy of contribution in which everyone becomes a producer of knowledge again.”Recommended by Paul Emilieu Marchesseau
• BiofabricateNew York, USA“Suzanne Lee built the community that takes grown materials out of the lab and into actual products.”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“Farm waste turned into stable carbon. A modest, useful answer to a loud problem.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• CERNGenève, Switzerland“Seventeen thousand scientists from a hundred countries work there as one. This is where the Higgs was found and the web was invented.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Cesar Jung-Harada / ProteiHong Kong, China“Cesar treats open-source hardware as a public good. That generosity is rare among inventors.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• CloudfisherAgadir, Morocco“Drinking water harvested straight from fog. A simple idea that changes lives in dry places.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Donna HarawaySanta Cruz, USARecommended by Søren Hermansen
• EurasantéLille, France“A health-innovation cluster gave a whole region a future after heavy industry.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• FairphoneAmsterdam, Netherlands“Bas showed that a phone can be built for repair and with fair sourcing. The whole industry feels the pressure.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Final SparkLausanne, Switzerland“Computing on living neurons sounds impossible. They let scientists try it, from anywhere.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Fonds ExploreConcarneau, France“They fund the expeditions that help us understand a world we are still learning to protect.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Gesda FoundationGeneva, Switzerland“They look ahead to where science and diplomacy will collide. Patient work, and necessary.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• InovaYaLyon, FranceRecommended by Simon Bernard
• Institut Océanographique Paul Ricardîle des Embiez, France“Fifty years of independent science on the Mediterranean, open to the public for free. A gift.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Lucas Davaze, Médiation ClimatGRENOBLE, France“He takes people to stand on a dying glacier. Climate stops being an idea and becomes 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. Space science belongs to the whole continent, and he shows it.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Michel MayorGenève, Switzerland“He turned the question of whether we are alone into something we can measure.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• MIT Media LabBoston, MA, USA“Their belief that the best ideas live between disciplines. I come back to it often.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Muriel Richard-NocaLausanne, SwitzerlandRecommended by Katy Foraz
• My Human KitNantes, France“Nicolas lost his hand and turned that into an open lab, where people design their own solutions.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Nicolas NovaGenève, Switzerland“Nicolas taught designers to think like anthropologists. Their work matters more for it.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• NotplaLondon, UK“Seaweed packaging you can eat or compost. It looks like common sense, and we had forgotten it.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Novo Nordisk FoundationCopenhagen, Denmark“The scale of their giving is enormous. I respect that so much of it goes to the health of ordinary people.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Oceans 2050USA“Alexandra is building the data that lets ocean farmers prove how much carbon they store, and earn from it.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• OceanWellLos Angeles, USARecommended by Simon Bernard
• PhytobokazPetit-Bourg, Guadeloupe, France“Dr Joseph puts Caribbean plant knowledge on the scientific footing it always deserved.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Proxima FusionMunich, Germany“A European path to fusion that runs continuously. It is a bet, and I am watching it closely.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Rainforest ConnectionSan Francisco, USA“Old phones turned into ears for the forest. Frugal and clever, the way I like it.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Raphaël HaumontParis-Saclay, FranceRecommended by Katy Foraz
• rrreefsZurich, Switzerland“They print reef bricks shaped like real coral, and the larvae move in. Direct, and rather beautiful.”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. His work helps us see ourselves inside it.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Simonetta CheliFrascati, Italy“She turns satellite data into tools for climate decisions. That is Europe taking its responsibility seriously.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• SOLshareDhaka, Bangladesh“Neighbours share their solar power, and clean energy reaches the poorest. That was the point all along.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Studio RoosegaardeRotterdam, Netherlands“Daan turns technology into a conversation about the world we want.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Under The PoleConcarneau, France“They dive where science cannot easily reach, and they share everything they find.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Valldaura Self-Sufficient LabsBarcelona, Spain“A forest that is the resource, the classroom and the curriculum at once. My idea of a good lab.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume
• Yves CittonParis, France“A professor at Université Paris 8, Yves Citton thinks of attention as an ecology: a scarce resource, captured by the media, that we must cultivate together as a shared environment.”Recommended by Paul Emilieu Marchesseau
• ÉcomarisMontréal, Canada“They make plankton visible. Half our oxygen comes from it and we never see it, so this helps us care.”Recommended by Florian Guillaume