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The Care Economy
The system has always talked about productivity, growth, and efficiency. But it has rarely talked about who truly sustains life. Care is also infrastructure. Care is also the economy. Care is also the future. Invisible, feminized, and often unpaid, care sustains households, communities, and entire cities. Ignoring it is not only unfair—it’s unsustainable. 📸Photos: Sahaj Patel, Sushanta Rokka, The New York Public Library, BenjaminChambon.
Community Innovation
There are other ways to think about the future: more local, more collaborative, and less dependent on systems that prioritize extraction over life. Community innovation shows that technology can also strengthen social ties, knowledge sharing, and help build collective autonomy. Photos: Andres Kishimoto
Invisible Infrastructure
The infrastructures that sustain life—water, soil, networks, care—and why innovation must strengthen them.
Learning from the South
What if innovation doesn’t come from where we’ve always been told it does? The Global South has been, and continues to be, a vibrant source of knowledge, adaptation, and innovation: agroecology, community governance, cultures of restoration. It’s not aid. It’s learning. The future is built through dialogue 🤝 Photos: Jacqueline Munguia, Oliver Kwembe, Leonardo Basso.
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