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The world-changing power of Fonts and Design. This week on the Wonderspace Podcast we orbit with Chrissy Levett who is the Founder & Creative Director of Creative Conscience, a global platform that encourages, trains and rewards creative thinking for social justice and sustainability. Chrissy believes that design & creative thinking should be used to solve global challenges and as a form o...

"We want our communities to respond to climate breakdown by making sure our political and economic decisions are made by, for and with them as communities rather than done to them". This week on the Wonderspace Podcast we welcome Olly Armstrong from North Shields in the North East of England. Olly is the co-founder and Director of Breathe who are a community organising non-profit building solidari...

This week on Wonderspace we orbit with Prospect from South London. He is a self-appointed Ambassador For The Youth Of The United Kingdom with a vision of bringing about a fairer and more progressive future for Upcoming Generations of Young People. He is the CEO of Prospect Training and Prospect Living who target financially excluded young people and provide them with employability skills and oppor...

This week on Wonderspace we orbit with Iva Gumnishka from Sofia in Bulgaria.  Iva is the founder and CEO of Humans in the loop, a social enterprise which supplies diverse and high-quality human input for AI systems. They have provided remote digital jobs and training to more than 1,000 refugees and conflict-affected people in countries around the world. “We're working with AI systems in order...

For our first Wonderspace podcast of 2023 we are joined by Sam Squire from Inspire2Ignite who engage with thousands of young people through entrepreneurship. They also work with 100 young people on a tailored ignite programme to help them start their own business for free. I met Sam at the Anthropy summit at the Eden project last year and was blown away by his story and work. Find out more at www....

For our last Wonderspace Podcast of 2022 we welcome Canon Andrew Thompson.  After spending most of his working life in the Middle East, Andy has been honoured for his work to human rights and promoting interfaith dialogue between Christians and Muslims. He holds degrees in Behavioural Sciences and Islamic Studies, and today is the vicar of a church in North London. Andy was nominated by music...

This week on the Wonderspace Podcast we ask our six questions to John Brown who as you will hear loves mushrooms, Merlin Sheldrake and helping businesses be part of solving some of society's biggest problems. He is the founder of the creative brand activism agency Don't Cry Wolf and is also a campaigner for more transparent campaigns from brands that are looking to promote their green credentials....

This week on the Wonderspace Podcast we welcome Prudence Muchinouta. She is the Chief Financial Officer of COMACO, a social enterprise that supports wildlife conservation and 225,000 food-secure farmers in the Luangwa Valley in Zambia. She is also a member of The Rallying Cry, an organization focused on supporting climate- and gender-responsive agriculture enterprises in Africa. Prudence was nomin...

This week on the Wonderspace Podcast we welcome Dirk Bischof who is the co-founder of Hatch Enterprise. Hatch is one of the UK’s leading enterprise support charities that pioneered a unique approach to entrepreneurship for diverse and underrepresented founders. Since 2013 They have supported over 7,000 entrepreneurs to help them launch and grow their ventures. Dirk was nominated by Sara Osterholze...

This week's Wonderspace Podcast comes from the inaugural Anthropy gathering at the Eden project where last week 1,200 people from all sectors of society gathered to be part of a launchpad for national change, a summit for the future of Britain. It was great to spend time with previous Wonderspace contributors such as John Elkington and the Volans team, Charlotte Sewell and Matt Hocking who were on...

This week on Wonderspace, we welcome Dr Eeva Houtbeckers, a scholar, writer and speaker active in the degrowth movement in Finland and the co-founder of the Degrowth Journal and Untame. Eeva was nominated by our 53rd guest Sabrina Chakori from Brisbane, who founded the Brisbane Tool Library, a social enterprise based on degrowth and a sharing economy. Sabrina describes Eeva as an amazing Activist...

This week on Wonderspace we ask our six questions to Magid Magid who was a member of the European Parliament and also the Lord Mayor of his beloved city, Sheffield. Magid was named one of TIME’s 100 rising stars shaping the future of the world and today he is the Founder & Director of Union of Justice which is an organisation dedicated to racial and climate justice. Union of Justice: https://w...

This week the Wonderspace podcast is capturing stories of hopefulness at the Blue Earth summit in Bristol. For three days hundreds of makers and mavericks, founders and activists, adventurers and investors came together with a collective desire to see business as a force for good in protecting our planet and all people. So sit back and enjoy this 25 minute fix of hopefulness featuring 46 people at...

Orbiting with us this week on Wonderspace is Marine Scientist Sheena Talma from the Seychelles.  Sheena is the science program manager at the Nekton Foundation which is focussed on accelerating scientific exploration and protection of the ocean.  Their aim is to highly protect at least 30 per cent of the ocean by 2030. Sheena also works with the Save Our Seas Foundation which has funded...

On Wonderspace this week we are joined by Audrey Lin in San Francisco.  Audrey is one of many people around the world who volunteer with ServiceSpace which is a non-profit dedicated to transformative volunteerism.  They leverage technology to encourage everyday people around the world to do small acts of service.   One of the many projects Audrey works on is Karuna news which highli...

This week's Wonderspace orbit is from the Fixing The Future Festival in Barcelona organised by Atlas of the Future. The festival drew together amazing future fixers and we asked a few of them to share their stories of hopefulness. For more information: https://atlasofthefuture.org/ To view the episode page with a summary of the interview, links to social media and projects mentioned, go to https:/...

Joining us today in Wonderspace is Nicole Yershon, a maverick, consultant, mentor and connector.  Before founding the NY Collective, Nicole ran the Ogilvy Labs for ten years and today sits on the board of Creative Conscience and a school for 'rough diamonds’ which is also the title of her book. “The intrapreneur is now the entrepreneur”. To find out more go to www.nicoleyershon.com and www.cr...

For the first Wonderspace podcast episode of our new year we welcome Sophie Shnapp who is a climate specialist and on the founding committee of Brian Eno’s music and climate charity EarthPercent. Sophie is also a driving force in Culture COP that's going to be held in tandem alongside COP27 in Egypt. "The climate crisis is also a crisis of culture and thus of imagination. We believe that now is th...

For the last Wonderspace podcast before our summer reset we welcome a regular contributor to the Wonderspace Podcast, Andrew Howley who has spent over 10 years working for National Geographic, is now the Chief Editor of asknature.  Over the past 40 episodes, Andrew has been producing mind-blowing one minute pieces of audio to help us re-wonder.   To mark the end of another Wonderspace ye...

On Wonderspace this week we welcome Joshua Coombes.  Josh is a hairdresser who, in 2015, took to the streets of London on his days off and gave haircuts to people who were experiencing homelessness. He started posting images of the people he met on social media and a global movement was born. Josh is the founder of Do Something For Nothing, a grassroots movement that focuses on how we can all...

On the Wonderspace podcast this week we welcome Marwa al-Sabouni. Marwa is an award-winning architect and author who has chosen to remain with her family in war torn Homs in Syria.  Her 2016 book 'The Battle For Home' gained her invitations to speak around the world and led to a TED talk where Marwa suggests that Syria's architecture was one of the key causes of war by dividing its once toler...

On Wonderspace this week we welcome Amooti Binaisa.  Amooti is the Africa Campaign Director for 8 Billion which is a project of the Resilient Foundation enabling storytellers and filmmakers to take part in changing the world. Her own story is extraordinary and uniquely brings together the worlds of business, politics and creativity. Find out more: https://www.8-billion.or g https://resilient....

This week we orbit with educator and leadership advisor Andres Roberts.  Andres is the founder of the Bio-leadership project which is a movement to help transform human systems and the paradigm of leadership by working with nature. Andres is also the co-founder of Way of Nature and works with many inspiring organisations including Patagonia, The World Benchmarking Organisation, THNK and the A...

On Wonderspace this week we orbit with Ben Rawlence.  Ben is a journalist and activist and has written for The New York Times and The Guardian. He is also the founding director of Black Mountains College in Wales which is an institution devoted to creative and adaptive thinking in the face of the climate and ecological emergency. His latest book The Treeline has been described as a spellbindi...

This week on Wonderspace we welcome Gavin Starks.  Gavin is an entrepreneur who has spent over 20 years helping to make data infrastructure useful to everyone: This has led to the creation of dozens of companies that are tackling complex challenges ranging from climate change to government transparency; digital supply-chains to open banking. Gavin is the founder of Icebreaker One which is mak...