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Douglas Tompkins
Born: 20 March, 1943 Died: 8 December, 2015 Nationality: United States Native from Ohio, Tompkins visited Chile for the first time in...
Utopia 500
Jan 24, 20202 min read


Cidade Mais
On the 5th of July 2019, the Utopia500 team attended Cidade Mais which was comprised of three days of conferences, talks, workshops, open...
Emira Gerguri
Jul 31, 20192 min read


Burrneshat & 101 Intro to Women rights in Kosovo
On Friday July 12th 2019 Utopia 500’s trainee Emira Gerguri held a session in Confraria Vermelha Livraria de Mulheres about an...
Emira Gerguri
Jul 24, 20193 min read


Porto Innovation Hub
On the 13th of June 2019 we attended a talk in the PortoInnovation Hub on Circular Economics of Obsolete Small Electronics (OSEs) in...
Miguel Ohnesorge
Jul 8, 20192 min read


i3s Ecological Minds
The international conference “Thinking and building the social and ecological transition – can we teach Utopia?” was held on 6th of June...
Polina Kireva
Jul 25, 20185 min read


Stephanie Kwolek
Born: 31 July 1923 Died: 18 June 2014 Nationality: American Stephanie Louise Kwolek was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an...
Utopia 500
Jul 19, 20181 min read


Ibn Sīnā/Avicenna
Born: 980 CE Died: June 1037 Nationality: Turkish/ Persian Ibn-Sina was born in Bukhara, Samanid Empire, in present-day Uzbekistan. He...
Utopia 500
Jul 19, 20182 min read


Tri Mumpuni
Born: 6 August 1964 Nationality: Indonesian In spite of the fact that Indonesia is rich in natural resources, many of the country’s rural...
Utopia 500
Jul 19, 20181 min read


Henry David Thoreau
Born: 12 July 1817 Died: 6 May 1862 Nationality: American Henry David Thoreau was born and raised in Concord, Massachusetts. He was an...
Utopia 500
Jul 19, 20181 min read


Cai Lun
Born: 50 AD Died: 121 AD Nationality: China Cai Lun was a Han dynasty Chinese eunuch and official. The pulp paper making process is said...
Utopia 500
Jul 6, 20181 min read


Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
Born: 25 June 1936 Nationality: Indonesia Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie is one of the most renowned Indonesia engineer. Born in southern part...
Utopia 500
Jul 6, 20182 min read


Albert Einstein
Born: March 14th, 1879 Died: April 18th, 1955 Nationality: German Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. A short time later, the...
Utopia 500
Jul 6, 20182 min read


Agnes Arber
Born: 23 February 1879 Died: 22 March 1960 Nationality: British Agnes Robertson Arber was a British plant anatomist and morphologist, a...
Utopia 500
Jul 6, 20182 min read


Ada Lovelace
Born: 10 December 1815 Died: 27 November 1852 Nationality: British Most often known as ‘Ada Lovelace’ was born Ada Gordon in 1815, sole...
Utopia 500
Jul 6, 20182 min read


Eric Arthur Blair “George Orwell”
Born: 25 June 1903 Died: 21 January 1950 Nationality: British Eric Arthur Blair used George Orwell as his pen name, was one of the most...
Utopia 500
Jul 6, 20182 min read
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