Project Spotlight: Project Spotlight: NutriGeo: Environment-Based Personalized Nutrition Platform
Imagine you’ve just finished a workout. Your nutrition app suggests a salmon and quinoa salad. It sounds great, but the nearest supermarket is miles away, and you have no idea if they even have fresh salmon. Later, the app suggests a run, but you step outside into a hazy afternoon with high pollen counts, and your allergies flare up instantly. You’re trying to be healthy, but your tools are disconnected from your reality.
This is the problem most of us face: we get generic health advice that ignores the world right outside our door.
NutriGeo changes that. It’s a smart health guide that understands not just you, but also where you are.
By connecting your personal health profile to your real-time location and environment, NutriGeo gives you advice that’s actually useful. Instead of just suggesting salmon, it might say: “The local market two blocks away just got a fresh batch of seasonal berries. They’re perfect for a post-workout smoothie.” On a day with poor air quality, it won’t just tell you to run; it will suggest an indoor workout or point you to a nearby park with cleaner air.
Using a blend of geospatial intelligence, live environmental data, and AI, NutriGeo bridges the gap between your health goals and your daily life. It empowers you to make smarter, healthier choices that are perfectly in sync with your unique environment.
Project Spotlight: Monarca Bio – Artisanal Garments for Children
Where Artistry, Comfort, and Sustainability Embrace Childhood
Can you imagine a sweater that feels less like a piece of clothing and more like a warm, gentle hug from nature itself?
Our story doesn’t begin in a factory, but high in the Andes of Bolivia and Peru. This is where we source the world’s softest baby alpaca hair, merino wool, and the finest pima cotton. In the hands of our artisan collaborators—a community driven by passion and creativity—these 100% natural, biodegradable fibers are hand-knitted into beautiful, minimalist garments for children.
But the connection to nature doesn’t stop there. A subtle, embroidered animal whispers of the garment’s origin. Tucked within each piece is a small storybook, sharing tales of alpacas and sheep living in freedom, inviting your child to feel connected to the wild heart of the world. It’s a garment that tells a story.
And now, our story is evolving.
We are deeply inspired by nature’s own engineering masterpieces. We looked at the Monarch butterfly, which masterfully uses the sun, its structure, and its own body to thrive in any climate. We asked: what if clothing could be that intelligent?
Our next chapter is a research project to create a revolutionary new material inspired by the Monarch’s wing. By mimicking its methods of managing heat, we are developing a 100% biodegradable fabric that adapts to keep your child comfortable, naturally. It’s a future where biomimicry and material science come together to create technology that is truly in harmony with nature.
We don’t just make clothes. We weave artistry, comfort, and a profound respect for the planet into every stitch, creating pieces for a more conscious and beautiful world.
Project Spotlight: Betterknowledge4all Generative Space – Unleashing Creativity Through a Dialogic Framework of Being
Beyond Method: Dialogue as a Foundation for Creativity
The persistent quest to understand and cultivate creativity has produced a rich landscape of theories and techniques, from cognitive models of divergent thinking to organizational strategies for innovation. While invaluable, these approaches often treat dialogue as a mere instrument a conversational tool or structured method for generating ideas.
Betterknowledge4all Generative Space advances a more fundamental proposition: the profound capacity of dialogue to unleash creativity stems not from its function as a tool, but from its nature as a foundational mode of being. True dialogue reconfigures our relationship with ourselves, others, and the world shifting from a paradigm of extraction and objectification to one of relationality and co-creation.
Within this “generative space” a sphere of authentic encounter genuinely novel ideas, insights, and realities can emerge. Our project creates environments, both digital and physical, where dialogue is not just encouraged, but is the very ground from which creativity springs.
GeoAI-Predict: Geospatial Early Warning System for Vector-Borne Disease Outbreaks
An outbreak often begins silently. A single mosquito bite in a bustling city. A week later, a fever. Then another. By the time health officials notice a pattern, the disease is already spreading. They are forced to react, always one step behind, fighting a battle that has already begun. With our world getting warmer and more connected every day, this is a race we are starting to lose against diseases like dengue, Zika, and malaria.
But what if we could see the future? What if we could know where the next outbreak will ignite, before it even happens?
This is the promise of GeoAI-Predict. Think of it as a weather forecast, but for disease.
Our system listens to the whispers in the data that precede an outbreak. It tracks subtle shifts in climate that allow mosquitoes to thrive. It watches the flow of human travel, understanding how a virus can journey from one city to another. It learns from past epidemiological records.
By feeding all this information into a powerful AI, GeoAI-Predict connects the dots in ways humans can’t. It identifies future hotspots with remarkable accuracy and generates an early warning, pinpointing exactly where and when a disease is likely to emerge.
This changes everything. Instead of reacting to a crisis, public health authorities can be proactive. They can target resources precisely where they’re needed, control mosquito populations before they explode, and warn communities in advance.
GeoAI-Predict turns the tide, giving us the power to stop outbreaks before they start and save lives before they are ever at risk.
Project Framework: Circular Water Management System for Algae Biofuel Production
Algae holds an incredible promise: a world powered by tiny green organisms, turning sunlight and water into clean fuel. It seems like the perfect solution fields of green energy, not oil.
But this green dream has a hidden, unsustainable thirst. Cultivating algae on a scale large enough to power our world would require guzzling colossal amounts of freshwater, a resource we can no longer afford to waste. We were faced with a paradox: solving one environmental crisis by creating another.
This is where AquaLoop changes the story.
Think of it not as a system, but as a smart nervous system for the entire water process. It gives the water a voice, using intelligent sensors to listen to its quality in real-time. It has foresight, using AI to predict problems before a single drop is wasted.
And most importantly, it creates a closed loop. Instead of constantly drawing fresh water and discharging waste, AquaLoop intelligently cleans and recycles nearly every liter, giving the algae exactly what it needs to thrive while using a fraction of the resources.
It transforms a water-intensive process into a model of circular efficiency. AquaLoop finally unlocks the true, sustainable potential of algae, ensuring that the clean fuel of the future doesn’t come at the cost of the planet’s most precious resource.
Project framework: Shifting Planting Dates
For generations, a farmer’s greatest tool was a deep, instinctual knowledge passed down from their parents and grandparents. They knew the feel of the air before the rains, the timing of the seasons, and the perfect moment to place a seed in the earth. It was a sacred rhythm between the land and its people.
But that rhythm is breaking. Climate change has made the weather a stranger rains come too late or not at all, and heatwaves arrive without warning. The old wisdom is no longer enough, and planting has become a desperate gamble. A single mistake, a single week too early or too late, can mean the difference between a bountiful harvest and a devastating loss.
This is where Climate-Sync steps in. It’s a bridge between ancient farming wisdom and the power of modern science.
Our project listens to the massive, complex conversations happening in the atmosphere, analyzing seasonal climate forecasts and weather patterns. It combines this foresight with a deep understanding of how each specific crop grows when it needs water, when it needs sun, and when it is most vulnerable.
Climate-Sync then translates this powerful knowledge into simple, clear advice. It’s not delivered through a complex app, but through the tools farmers already use every day: a clear voice on the radio or a simple text message on a phone. The message is direct and empowering: “The conditions are right. This is your optimal window to plant.”
This isn’t about replacing the farmer; it’s about giving them a new, powerful sense. It turns the gamble against the weather into a data-driven decision, restoring confidence and securing livelihoods. With Climate-Sync, we are helping farmers align their work with the new, changing rhythm of the planet, ensuring a more resilient and food-secure future.