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Futures 100 Innovators: January
Welcome to the Futures 100 Innovators, our annual longlist of global innovators and disruptors creating the future across 10 sectors.
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Black Art Matters in Web3
British artist Nubianizm explains how a new generation of Black visual artists find solace, community and compensation on the blockchain.
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Barter Brands
Inter-Covid, bartering is gathering pace, giving retail brands a chance to explore systems where customers trade items for access to their goods or...
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Van Cleef & Arpels explores the fun side of jewellery, and other stories
Today’s headlines including, an app that helps Generation Z cope with anxiety, Carlsberg uses AI to create new beers faster, Prose haircare encoura...
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Futures 100
Futures 100 Innovators: May
The fifth instalment of our Futures 100 Innovators spotlights people ungendering beauty, addressing ADHD through design and diversifying Web3 spaces.
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Post-purpose Brands
Pushing back against purpose-washing and jumping on the bandwagon, brands will embrace imperfection and focus on betterment. With more intuitive te...
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Futures 100
Futures 100 Innovators: Shortlist
We present the shortlist for our Futures 100 Innovators Awards, featuring the 10 leading innovators, disruptors and change-makers across 10 industr...
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Cannes Lions 2013 Report: Part 1
Cannes – When rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs appeared at the world’s most prestigious advertising festival last week to discuss his new music platf...
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Milan Design Week daily recap: Creativity in cities and Tortona highlights
On day two, The Future Laboratory headed to Tortona Design District, which housed notable exhibitions from Ikea, Superstudio and Base.
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Stat: Boutique fitness spaces on the rise in the UAE
Fitness centres will be the highest-performing sector in the UAE’s rapidly growing fitness market, with outlets increasing from 1,600 to 2,600 in t...
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Uncorked Wine
For many people, choosing a wine is anything but black and white. A new variety of wine branding is working to change that.
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Expansionist Brands
At present, a key focus for many multinational brands is working out how they can enter and succeed in emerging markets. Most have yet to consider ...
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Street Sport Rebels
Women across the world are taking to the streets and engaging in urban sports as a means of activism and self-empowerment.
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Inclusive gaming and fashion blurs with dating
Xbox caters for the physically impaired, Helmut Lang facilitates online dating, Iceland pledges to plastic-free packaging.
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Post-growth Society
As our obsession with economic growth proves to be unsustainable, brands, institutions and consumers are seeking new metrics of progress.
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Anti-social Sanctuaries
Reclaiming their liberation, affluent consumers are paying a premium for travel and dining services that promise total seclusion.
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Nissan customers profit from surplus energy and more top stories
In today’s daily digest: the meaning behind the term ‘cage-free’, luxury platform offers personalised space, zine explores disenfranchisement and m...
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Luxury Travel Futures Market – Overview
We are living in one of the most affluent eras the world has ever known. A new kind of wealth is being formed and defined, simultaneously cr...
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Banking the Unbanked
With about 2bn unbanked people worldwide, there is an opportunity and a need for brands to use advances in technology to create more inclusive fina...
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Podcast: NASA Harvest's Dr. Catherine Nakalembe
The Future Laboratory co-founder Martin Raymond speaks with Dr Catherine Nakalembe, Africa programme director at NASA Harvest, scientist, remote se...
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Back To The F**kture
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Why we travel – and maybe why we shouldn’t
Next time a consumer has the impulse to travel, they should think twice about their reasons why, and their impact, says Bani Amor.
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Chat Fiction
Our smartphone addiction is informing a new way of reading.
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Dutch Design Week 2015: Tree reconfigured
Eindhoven – Studio Thomas Vailly has ripped a Pinus Pinaster tree apart to create alternative man-made objects.
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Raw Material
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3DIY Culture
With free access to information, and a new norm of open-sourcing, a new type of DIY culture is on the rise. This is 3DIY – Design/Download/Do-It-Yo...
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Futures 100
Futures 100 Innovators: Winners
We present the winners and runners-up of our Futures 100 Innovators Awards. Meet the crème de la crème of the leading innovators, disruptors and ch...
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