A bit of background, while I was living in Thailand a few years ago I had the opportunity to learn about the street artwork of the artist Karma. I was memorized and inspired by her culture jamming and delicate way of putting up walls and creating a maze of color and wo...

A generation ago, Carl Sagan took on an exploration of space, which we had never previously understood. The American science documentary appeared on television in the 1980s. Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, presented by Carl Sagan on the public broadcasting service was consi...

My name is Maria Schechter, and I am a Culture Mapping practitioner. I have been developing online communities since 2000. For the past eight years, I have developed large-scale communities for major brands, and this year I developed an online community for both Kenya...

Mountain View, CA- June 24, 2014. Raised in the heart of Silicon Valley, Microsoft’s Director of Corporate Citizenship now plays a new game. In this noble house sits Sid Espinosa, former Mayor of Palo Alto, California and notably the first Hispanic to be elected to pub...

Cultured Social is a marketing company that believes in the mission and purpose of non-profits’ global contributions. We want to hear from change makers from around the world and collect their visions, stories and opinions. Our goal is to assist non-profits in using so...

Interview conducted by Maria Schechter

Today’s change agents develop art and design as a core ingredient of the identity of an individual or a culture. In a world of global flows of wealth, power, and imagery, the search for identity becomes the fundamental source of so...