The UK government’s new Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), modelled on DARPA, is backing “moonshots” to save the planet. At 🔥THE HEAT, its leaders will share their bold approach.
Participants at 🔥THE HEAT will be able to sample a wide variety of future foods – thanks to our future-food curator Daniel Skavén Ruben, who is organising the festival’s future-food exhibition.
Samudra Oceans will showcase its robots that scale seaweed growth and maximise carbon capture at 🔥THE HEAT.
Space Solar is on a mission to fight climate change using solar power from space, and will be bringing its prototype transmitter to 🔥THE HEAT for its first ever demo.
🔥 THE HEAT plans to be free of food waste – thanks to our partner Olio, which will be redistributing any food that goes uneaten at the festival.
🔥THE HEAT will be putting on its own climate film festival – thanks to our curator Tristan Copley Smith, who will be selecting which submissions are shown at the festival.
Participants at 🔥THE HEAT will be able to enjoy drinks served in edible pouches – thanks to our friends at Notpla, who will be bringing their product Ooho to the festival.
🔥THE HEAT will bring carbon capture to a field in Oxfordshire – thanks to our partner CyanoCapture, who will be bringing a photobioreactor to show how much CO2 is being captured in real time.
🔥THE HEAT is entirely powered by renewable energy — thanks to our partner Cold Electric, whose gigantic battery-pack is taking our festival off the grid.
VOYAGERS covered in Sifted on April 10 2023
