Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian.

Oleksandra Matviichuk is a human rights defender who works on issues in Ukraine and the OSCE region. She is a 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Poet and translator.

Author

Writer, poet, literary scholar, and translator.

Arundhati Roy is an author.

Writer, translator, and reporter

Head of the Crimea Platform Department at the Mission of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Christina Lamb is one of Britain’s leading foreign correspondents and a bestselling author.

We highlight what makes public spaces thrive, drawing from communities around the world.

I am a PhD student in Design at La Sapienza University of Rome. I deal with environmental graphics and in particular with placemaking applied to the concept of regeneration of public spaces.

Cultural manager and translator

Margaret MacMillan is emeritus professor.

Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta is the Director General of National Art and Culture Museum Complex “Mystetskyi Arsenal”.

Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight.

Iryna Vikyrchak is a cultural manager, poetess, and translator.

Pascal Bruckner is a philosopher and novelist.

Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) is a Research and Development organization which focuses on fostering social innovation that can bring about a positive change to local, national, regional and global contexts. CSI belief, is that the four pillars of Social Interaction, Education, Development and Economic Rationalization coupled with fundamentally sound and sustainable solutions as well as disruption to streamlined solutions to systemic social problems can lead to creative solutions that impact significant change to the social fabric of every society.

Tetyana Ogarkova is a scholar, an essayist, and a journalist.

Sylvie Kauffmann is an editor and a writer.

Sławomir Sierakowski is a sociologist and political analyst.

Nataliya Gumenyuk is an author and journalist.

Askold Melnyczuk is an author and editor.

Kateryna Babkina is an author.

Oleina Huseinova is writer, journalist, poet, and radio host.

Paweł Pieniążek is a journalist, author, and reporter.

Oleksandr Zinchenko is an editor, author, and screenwriter.

Katrin Eigendorf is a reporter and correspondent.

Phillipe de Lara is an acclaimed scholar and author.

Sophia Andrukhovych is an acclaimed scholar and author.

Sophia Andrukhovych is a writer and translator.

Orhan Pamuk is a novelist. He received the Nobel Prize in 2006.

Dmytro Krapyvenko is a journalist, publicist, and member of Ukraine’s armed forces.

I am creative and a free thinker. I believe that I can leave an impact on my city and environment, just like the city and its places impact me.

Liao Yiwu (August 4, 1958 - ), a renowned poet, writer and folk artist, was arrested in 1990 for his poem memorializing the victims of June 4th Massacre, and eventually sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for “counter-revolutionary crimes”.

We are the only company that can produce caviar from sturgeon without killing the fish. Other farms needlessly kill up to 3,000,000 per year, we want to change that

Taras Lyuty is a philosopher, writer, columnist and musician.

Poet and co-founder of Independent Chinese PEN Center

State of Place helps you harness the power of data to more quickly, efficiently, and effectively deliver places people deserve.

I'm co-founder of ‘Neurodiversity in Planning’. My passion for inclusivity and accessibility of urban opportunities and my experience as a neurodivergent town planner motivate me to promote neuro-inclusive place-making. I'm passionate about the sensory design of urban spaces for a better and more inclusive human experience.

We are a leading membership organisation and a Chartered Institute responsible for maintaining professional standards and accrediting world class planning courses nationally and internationally.

Urban-Think Tank believes in building an architecture of ideas that works to reimagine what exists. We have moved our studio from the margins to the center. We teach and archive what we have learned and experienced under real-world conditions. We believe in exhibiting the power of solutions driven by design thinking. We photograph and film our work because images and video speak louder than words. We publish our body of work; assuming responsibility for the urban future.

Parangolé is an emerging annual journal that explores ideas on urbanization, design, and architecture with contributions from around the world on topics of mobility, migration, fluidity, multiplicity, reflexivity, uncertainty, immersion, hybridization, diaspora, control, privatization, and heterotopia.

Dis_Local is a platform that brings together Venezuelan architects and urban disciplines in different latitudes with a network of global cooperation. We want to build and not simulate reality focused on the peripheral world. 

The International Journal of the Commons is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access journal, dedicated to furthering the understanding of institutions for use and management of resources that are (or could be) enjoyed collectively.

Holis is an interdisciplinary learning community that works on the most critical ecological and social challenges of our times.

A home for one million agri-food entrepreneurs transforming Africa’s agricultural landscape.

CAFx is a place that explores, discusses and disseminates architectural and urban challenges through a number of initiatives.

Du Daobin (born Du Daohui, December 18, 1963-), a government official, internet writer and freelancer, was arrested in 2003 for internet writings and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for “inciting subversion of state power”.

Rural speaker and small town activist.

We believe small towns can be saved by their own people using their own resources.

Alfredo Brillembourg is founder and director at Urban Think Tank

Yang Tongyan (April 12, 1961 - November 5, 2017), a famous dissident writer and social activist better known as Yang Tianshui, was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment for “subverting state power” because of his critical essays on overseas websites, as well as his political activism.

We are a global network of leaders who together accelerate placemaking as a way to create healthy, inclusive, and beloved communities.

Carolyn Steel is a leading thinker on food and cities.

Kang Yuchun, a doctor at Beijing Anding Hospital, sentenced to 17 years in prison for political issues in 1992, was released on the 28th October 2003 due to an imprisonment reduction of 5 years and 7 months.

Zhang Lin (June 2, 1963 - ), a dissident writer and social activist, was arrested in 1994 and then sentenced to three years of Reeducation-Through-Labor after contacting foreign journalists about human rights violations near his home village.

Shi Tao (July 25, 1968-), a poet, journalist, editor and writer, was arrested in 2004 after sending an email to the editor of an overseas website summarizing instructions from the General Office of the CPC Central Committee to the newspaper where Shi was employed. He was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for “illegally providing state secrets overseas”.

Liu Xiaobo (28 December 1955-13 July 2017), a renowned Chinese literary critic, dissident writer and human rights activist, was sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment for “inciting subversion of state power” based on his writings criticizing Chinese authorities and his participation in drafting and launching Charter 08. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.

Tan Zuoren, a doctor, environmentalist, editor and freelance writer, was arrested in 2009 for publishing a documentary article on the June 4th Massacre after reporting a name list of children killed in the Sichuan earthquake, and was eventually sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for “inciting subversion of state power”.

I am the Chief Operations Officer for the New York Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism. I have also recently helped create PLACE Initiative, which is an organization working to address climate change, social justice, and the need to create receiver cities to accommodate the migration of people who will need to move out of harm's way.

Dr. Yu Zhang is the Secretary-General of The Independent Chinese Pen Centre. He’s defending freedom of speech.

I have been involved in urban renewal and revitalization, historic preservation, main street planning and design, tourism development, and economic development for over 40 years. I have worked in Canada, USA and Southeast Asia. Very much concerned about how place making can become better known as part of the overall urban and rural development process.

Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC) is a nongovernmental, nonprofit and nonpartisan organization beyond borders based on free association of those who write, edit, translate, research and publish literature work in Chinese worldwide.

The Ukrainian centre of PEN International (PEN Ukraine) was established in 1989 and now unites 140 Ukrainian authors and intellectuals (among them writers, human rights defenders, translators, journalists, humanities scholars, publishers, and cultural managers).

Michael H. Shuman is a leading visionary on community economics.

PEN Cambodia promotes writing and reading culture through training writers and by producing literary and academic works for the youth and general public in Cambodia.

PEN Zimbabwe aims at creating the space for literature, language, ideas, opinions, debate in diversity mainly in gender and political diversity issues and dialogue to flourish and also the creation of opportunities for diverse, dissenting and unknown writers to be heard.

TransLAB.URB is an autonomous collective that develops projects in the field of experimentation and practice in Urban Social Innovation, divided into 3 categories: Co-creation & Participation, Urban Pedagogy and Urban Activation.

Open Cities Lab (OCL) is a non-profit organisation that combines the use of action research, co-design, data science, and technology with civic engagement, to enable the development of inclusive cities and urban spaces.

I'm a regenerative and sustainability designer, complexity analyzer, and alternative and art therapist, mixed with teaching spirituality and sustainability in the nexus of social sciences, deep ecology and spirituality.

Our work is about transforming the discussion around food and farming, using ethics and values as our foundation, to pave the way to a fair food system that respects people, animals and the planet.

PLACED is a progressive and independent team empowering people’s voices through built environment education and engagement to make better places together. 

Off Centre Collective is a team of creative professionals and curious researchers who believe in the power of design thinking and love to deep dive into wicked problems.

Phil Myrick is a global placemaking leader and advisor to public realm, institutional, and mixed use development projects.

Stephanie Nash is a singer/songwriter and farmer advocating for community building and agriculture.

Steve Sem-Sandberg is a leading European novelist. He’s the author of several acclaimed and awarded novels and is a member of The Swedish Academy.

BlackSpace demands a present and future where Black people, Black spaces, and Black culture matter and thrive.

The Bug Picture harnesses the power of insects to convert organic waste to a sustainable alternative protein and bio fertilizer that is locally produced and competitively priced in the market.

We are a young non-profit organisation from Berlin with a passionate team in Germany and South Africa. We are developing the first inclusive web app for step-by-step instructions – for and together with people in underserved communities.

La Pinada Lab is an open innovation centre focused on the sustainability of the urban environment. 

Social Design Collaborative is a Delhi-based community driven architectural and art practice to provide access to design to all, recently awarded the Beazley Design of the Year 2020 in Architecture. 

Jim Diers is a speaker, facilitator, author and activator assisting associations and agencies in support of caring, inclusive and powerful communities.

Lacol is a cooperative of architects.

My work is an exploration of the cultural and conceptual field between art, science and religion. I like artistic collaborations and the pursuit of finding common ground.

Jon Alexander is co-founder of the New Citizenship Project, a strategy and innovation consultancy that aims to shift the dominant story of the individual in society from Consumer to Citizen.

Post Urban is a lab for nature-based, water-sensitive, and circular cities. We are passionate about shaping a future where cities and humans are embedded in nature.

We're a group of charities and community organisations providing relevant and up to date information on the Dunfermline Community, making it easy to know what's happening in Dunfermline, and where to access help on a variety of issues such as debt, housing, food insecurity and benefits.

We are a network of experts and specialists in urban issues constituting a think tank focused on sustainable city models in Africa.

I am a multidisciplinary artist and a poet. I am the founder of the Eternal Forest project. I am here to hold the space to help emerge the movement of Eternal Forest Sanctuaries around our beautiful Planet.

Traffic Design was created in 2011 out of love for what’s urban and the need to place more art in the public space. We carry out projects devoted to aesthetics, art, education, social change and corporate cultural responsibility.

Urban Gorillas is a non-profit organisation that contributes to sustainable urban living by enabling projects that bring new energy and instigate change in city spaces and communities. The focus of our work is to enhance the notion of ‘public’ through interventions in public spaces and community engagement.

Mohamed Magani’s latest novels encapsulate a frank orientation and concern with the ecological issue, absent or lost of sight in contemporary Algerian literature. As well as his essays which attempt to highlight the multiple destructions of the environment, the environmental rights of citizens, and the protection of the natural bases of existence.

PEN Kazakhstan is a non-profit organisation fighting for human rights and freedom of speech.

PEN Perth is a non-profit organisation fighting for human rights and freedom of speech.

Bibi Katholm is a visual artist with an MA Painting degree from the Royal College of Art in London. Her painting practice is about movement, time, rhythm and fluidity.

St. Petersburg PEN unites writers, poets, publishers, and journalists.

Teach the Future is a global non-profit movement that promotes ‘futures literacy’ as a life skill for students and educators.

The Sofia Platform Foundation is a non-governmental organization working in the field of history and civic education.

Planning Tank is India’s largest and one of the most visited Urban, Regional & Rural Planning platforms globally. Founded in 2013 to provide immediate access to information for students and save their time, we soon realised that the problem was not just limited to a specific place – it was a global issue. Since then, we have been working to provide information resources and knowledge sharing for everyone.

The voice of conscience of Vietnamese writers across the globe.

We want to bring new momentum, fresh impetus to the community of learning, to build a creative, resilient generation of young Chadian leaders.

Venetian Letter is a monthly newsletter and educational center advancing human-focused, evidence-based architecture and urban design.

Jeff Speck is a city planner and urban designer who advocates internationally for more walkable cities.

Our mission is to reduce and divert organic food waste going to landfill, process them locally into high nutrient biodiverse composted fertiliser, and returning it back to regenerate soil in our local communities.

The PEN Centre of Iraq works for freedom of expression.

We are a rapidly growing affordable artist studio/vacancy management company that creates affordable artist studios in vacant spaces around the United States where artists can create and collaborate at an affordable price.

The PEN Centre of Bosnia & Herzegovina works on gathering authors, editors, translators, publishers, publicists, essayists, literary critics and historians, together with other intellectuals, thus creating a cultural scene where valuable opinions on contemporary aims of not only literature but the society itself can be given notice.

Sustain is a “think and do” network, specialising in designing and building sustainable and healthy food systems. We work for the transition to a food system that supports flourishing communities, individuals and ecosystems. We give people, councils, and organisations the tools they need to help them become empowered food citizens, supporting healthy communities, people and ecosystems.

City Sabha is a collective of thinkers, creatives, and activists working towards inclusive and sustainable cities.

We create space for dialogue, foster the development of Belarusian literary process and Belarusian culture in general, fight against any manifestations of hatred and stand up for the universal ideals of peace and equality. We consistently defend freedom of expression and campaign to draw attention of Belarusian and international community to the violations of writers’ rights.

The Urban Conga is an international multidisciplinary design studio focused on exploring the idea of a Playable City as an ecosystem of multiscale playable opportunities intertwined within our existing urban infrastructure.

Nomada Estudio Urbano is an urban consultancy from Juarez, Mexico founded in 2016, dedicated to the creation and management of placemaking, community development and tactical urbanism projects.

I am an award winning Nepali poet, writer and a translator. My 10 books of poems, 10 books of essays/travels and a novel have been published. Presently, I am working as secretary of PEN Nepal (literary organization), a Nepali chapter of PEN International.

Mohammad Moheuddin is the Secretary General of PEN Bangladesh Centre. He writes fiction and drama and edits Golpokar, the first monthly literary journal in Bangladesh entirely devoted to fiction. He has been bringing out the monthly Golpokar for over five and a half years now. Golpokar has served and printed about 500 writers to-date, out of whom about 100 young writers made their debut in Golpokar.

Town Team Movement enables local communities and governments to connect, organise and act to regenerate the fabric of their neighbourhoods and to create better places.

We’re an ‘underarching’, non-profit social enterprise. We help positive ‘doers’ to improve their community, based on the fun and inclusive Town Team approach.

I am an Architect inspiring to be an Urban Designer, a Placemaking Leader, and a Mental Health Advocate dedicated to making things happen for the community's well-being.

Languages, first of all. Languages, literature, multilingual communication, language diversity. I have been working with languages for years, professionally, politically and in private. I am a board member of Danish PEN, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression and that all languages are equal and should be listened to. I am also a member of International PEN's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (TLRC), where we put focus on the kinship between languages, freedom of expression and human rights.

Focused on how we can weave in impact to purpose driven organisations in the future. Do this as a practising lawyer but also a podcaster at Seeds Podcast and a writer.

PEN stands for the principle of unhampered transmission of thought within each nation and between all nations, and members pledge themselves to oppose any form of suppression of freedom of expression in the country and community to which they belong, as well as throughout the world wherever this is possible.

Giulia is an urban planner, architect and researcher specialising in community-driven development and participatory design. She excels at engaging in various kinds of situations, thanks to her international experiences and chameleonic nature. Empathy and curiosity are fully part of herself, at the same time the winning cards for building a strong network. She defines her professional goal as helping vulnerable communities by co-creating with them more green and inclusive public spaces.

Our deep rooted knowledge of the towns landscape and our extensive range of services supports the Scottish Government's ongoing commitment to secure a positive future for Scotland's towns.

We are an urban collective who thinks and transforms public places, organized as a nonprofit organization. Together, we form an interdisciplinary network committed to build fair, innovative, democratic, safe, healthy and vibrant cities. Public spaces are vital for our purpose.

We’re passionate about the cooperation between public and private actors. We seek to heighten the understanding of the town center as a generator for growth.

I help build sustainable cities and communities that in turn design out loneliness, poverty and homelessness in Australia and beyond. My lived experience of homelessness allows me to publicly speak with authority on topics of 'Homelessness' and 'Resilience'. I am also the Founder/Managing Director of Kommuniti HQ - A profit for purpose social business.

“Human beings have had my full attention ever since I was a teenager. I’ve always found something interesting in everybody.”

Advisor to global, national, state, regional, and municipal leaders on public reforms and private innovations that advance the well-being of metropolitan areas and their countries.

Thought leader on applied models and methods for governing and financing sustainable cities and societies.

“Building the anti-capitalist power of urban social movements through organizing, development of competencies, accumulation of platforms and dialectical utopianism. Development of a new framework for understanding urbanity.”

We are place makers who transform entire town centres in just seven days with our 7 Day Makeover. We also market a Town Boosters "Flat Pack" Program that enables LGAs and Business Associations to boost their town by boosting the local businesses.

I am a practicing architect, urban designer and master planner. I am also a researcher and have held position of Professor of Sustainable Urbanism in the School of Architecture at University of Sheffield, UK
I am a co-founder of start up for a distributive construction system called MassBespoke .

“Bushwick equals resilience.”

Creating great places to support healthy communities and a sustainable planet.

Former government minister and president of the UN General Assembly

Centrummanagement Brugge is one of the public services of the Bruges City Council: our goal is a lively shopping city, limited vacancy, a strong image as a trendy and innovative shopping city, and a thorough service for traders and entrepreneurs.

“I love developing ideas that have impact and enjoy creating experiences to make places relevant and inspiring.”

“We need a new frontier in the human rights field.”

Dublin Town is the Business Improvement District (BID) in Dublin city centre. We operate on behalf of our 2,500 member businesses to enhance the Dublin city experience for residents and visitors.

“I am involved in a range of voluntary roles building networks across multiple organisations seeking symbiotic relationships to achieve shared community goals”