Cultural Engineers

 
Our Cultural Engineers are united by their desire to make a change and enhance the world we live in. They express this in different ways ranging from beautiful design work to environmental awareness, while always creating fun and remaining true to their modern conscience.

These are inspirational individuals who don’t just dream, they do.

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Vidhura Ralapanawe

Vidhura Ralapanawe

Introducing Vidhura Ralapanawe, picked by Guardian readers to become a Cultural Engineer, who helped create a pioneering eco-factory in Sri Lanka

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Kevin Fong

Kevin Fong

Kevin had been obsessed with space since his childhood; his earliest memory, he believes, was watching a US-Soviet space mission on the television in 1975

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Mark Stevenson

Mark wants to put an optimism of ambition about the future and critical thinking into the heart of culture

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Oliver Hemsley and Katy Dawe

Two young friends have turned the tragedy of knife crime into a positive call to arms, breaking down barriers between communities that should be living side by side

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Chris Wheeler

The Heritage Orchestra is pulling instrumental music into a raucous future, and Chris Wheeler is helping to lead the way

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Kevin Harman

Outsider artist Kevin Harman is putting a brick through the window of the establishment, literally

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Benedict Radcliffe

In a dusty workshop off Brick Lane, Benedict Radcliffe is blurring the boundaries between industrial design and the world of fine art

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David Hieatt

From pioneering organic clothing to inspiring the next generation of thinkers, David Hieatt is proof of the maxim that those who can, do

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Fabien Riggall

Makers and lovers of all things film have a new way to appreciate the medium, thanks to Fabien Riggall

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Agents of Change

Agents of Change

A change is brewing in the graffiti world, spearheaded by a collective of artists who are breaking all the rules

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