Fast Company‘s third annual World Changing Ideas Awards drew nearly 2,000 submissions across 17 categories. Fast Company editors and reporters created lists of honorable mentions and finalists, and then our panel of judges picked winners in each category. 

EXPERIMENTAL

WINNER

Cellulose-Based Textile Fiber, Spinnova

FINALISTS

Call for Code, IBM
Chevrolet Volt Bee Hive, General Motors and Bees in the D
Creative Residency 2018, Ginkgo Bioworks
Daisy, Watchtower Robotics
Dynamic Semiotics, Wayfinder
Edible chopsticks, Eleme and 
FF Shanghai
Electronic Alchemy, Morningbird Media Corporation
Encycled, Encycled Limited
Ingresso Social, Gira
Intel x Smithsonian American Art Museum, Agency Inside, Intel
IRL Glasses, IRL Labs
Microplastic-Sensing AUV, Sprout Studios and Draper
New York Public Library Insta Novels, Mother
Signing Off, Mastercard
Step Up Declaration, Salesforce and Mission 2020
WFP-X, World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator
Wildfire Watch System, Descartes Labs

HONORABLE MENTIONS

AlterEgo, MIT Media Lab
Antibias, Beyond
AttentivU, MIT Media Lab
Building Blocks, Space10
ByFusion Global, ByFusion Global
Career Impact Bonds, Social Finance
Circle, Forsman & Bodenfors New York
Consoar, HATS
Data stored in enzymatic DfNA, Molecular Assemblies
Digital data storage using DNA molecules, Catalog
Everyday Essentials: Dress, Min Choi Design
Frames of Power, Centre for Policy Alternatives
GoFly Prize, GoFly
Justice Promoters, Design Impact and Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center
Lightweighting 2.0, General Motors and Autodesk
Make Some Room, Publicis Sapient and Second Story
The net loneliness score, Ultra Testing
Nori, Nori
OceanX, OceanX
Park-Walk PDX, LineSync Architecture
Personal Carbon Economy, Gray Area Art and Technology
Posthuman Habitats, Foreground Design Agency
Project Debater, IBM
Sacred Vote, Sacred Generations
Scout, Uniform
S.E.E. Initiative, National Geographic
Voyc, North Highland