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CALL FOR ENTRIES 🌐 Planet Poster Awards 2026: Systems Disruption

This year, we invite artists, designers, illustrators, and communicators to ideate with us: what do systems actually look like? And what would it take to disrupt them?

Show us what the systems behind the crisis actually look like, and what it would take to disrupt them.

🪡 We’re not looking for chaos or simplistic answers. We want you to go deep. Draw the invisible threads. Find the fault lines, and show us where they run.

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📩 How to enter:

👉🏽 Email us your poster & thinking

👉🏽 Follow us on Instagram & LinkedIn, and sign up for our newsletter

👉🏽 Post your poster on IG and tag @icaruscomplexmagazine — use #SystemsDisruption2026

⚠️ AI-generated work is not eligible.

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🏆 Prize: €1,500 cash prize for the winner
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📰 Selected entries published in the 2027 print edition of Icarus Complex Magazine

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Meet the jury: HeyPorter (@heyporterposter), Natalie Seisser (@natalie.seisser), Siddhesh Gautam (@bakeryprasad), Roshi Rouzbehani (@roshi_rouzbehani), and Zipeng Zhu (@zzdesign).

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🗓️ Deadline: 13 November 2026
🔗 Full details via the link in bio!

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#PlanetPosterAwards #DesignForChange #OpenCall #CallForEntries by @icaruscomplexmagazine

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15 days ago

ISSUE 7 | Out Now

At Icarus Complex, we’re leaning ever more deeply into the systemic roots of the climate crisis — examining how fossil fuel power is upheld through law, finance and political influence.

Issue 7 unpacks Investor–State Dispute Settlements, SLAPP lawsuits, distorted ideas of ‘economic feasibility’, and the cultural narratives that normalise extraction. Through essays, interviews, poetry and photo stories, the issue traces how these systems shape land, livelihoods and resistance.

🗞️ Print + digital available now via the link in bio

💬 Where do you see fossil power most entrenched?
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#climatejustice #systemicchange #fossilfuels #independentmedia #nonprofit #climatepolicy by @icaruscomplexmagazine

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10 months ago

Who We Are | Icarus Complex Magazine

A quick introduction for those who are new here — and some exciting news 🥳

Icarus Complex is an independent annual print publication + media organisation offering a systemic look at the climate crisis through the lenses of food & agriculture, energy, finance, design, and communications. We move beyond surface narratives to amplify stories of resistance, resilience, and real transition.

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Where to find us?

💬 We’re now launching our TikTok channel — follow us at @icaruscomplexmagazine for insights, explainers, and open dialogue.

🔗 Our web journal at icaruscomplexmagazine.com — a space for community engagement, ideas, and real solutions across contexts.

🗞️ Issue 7 + past issues available via icaruscomplexmagazine.com/shop.

🦋 BlueSky: @icaruscomplexmag.bsky.social for updates + news.

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#climatemedia #climatejustice #systemicchange #justtransition #independentmedia #climateaction #nonprofit by @icaruscomplexmagazine

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10 months ago

MAURITANIA'S FISHING SECTOR | A Cornerstone of Sahelian Security

Along Mauritania's Atlantic coast, the fishing sector is far more than an economic lifeline. It supports livelihoods, strengthens food security, and plays a vital role in stability across the Sahel. Yet the communities who depend on the ocean are increasingly navigating the pressures of climate change, shifting fish stocks, and industrial fishing.

Kang-Chun Cheng (@takeme.north) documents the people whose lives are shaped by the sea, exploring the connections between ocean health, livelihoods, and regional security. Ely Cheikh Mohamed Vadel contributed reporting to this project.

Read the full story via the link in bio 🔗

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#PhotoStory #OceanHealth #FishingSector #FoodSystems #ClimateChange taken in Mauritania by @icaruscomplexmagazine

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20 hours ago

EARTH ELDERS: Protecting the World’s Sacred Sites

A film made by Indigenous elders, on their own terms.

The Earth Elders are a global Indigenous-led movement protecting sacred sites from extraction, exploitation and destruction. Their film (@eartheldersfilm) is co-owned and co-directed by the communities themselves, challenging extractive approaches to storytelling and centring Indigenous voices, knowledge and consent.

At a time when climate and energy transition plans increasingly rely on Indigenous territories but rarely on Indigenous leadership, Earth Elders offers a different perspective on our relationship with the living world. In this conversation, Earth Elder Mindahi Bastida (@mindahibastida) and filmmaker Lucy Martens (@lucynlmartens) speak about ancestral knowledge, reciprocity and the collective responsibility to protect sacred sites and restore dignity.

Read the full conversation via the link in bio.

Interview by Linda Förster (@liindaforster).

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#IndigenousRights #EarthElders #SacredSites #ClimateJustice #Biodiversity by @icaruscomplexmagazine

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3 days ago

GIRLS, LAND + POWER | Who gets to access, use and decide about land?

Land rights shape who can make decisions about natural resources, livelihoods and the future of their communities.

For girls growing up in rural communities, learning about land rights and having opportunities to participate can influence their choices and their role in local decision-making.

From land-rights education in West Bengal to women restoring degraded land in Kenya and building agricultural livelihoods in Senegal, these initiatives show why rights, knowledge, participation and access to resources matter together.

In Nepal, the National Indigenous Women Forum supports Indigenous women and girls as climate leaders through climate-resilient farming, education and intergenerational knowledge-sharing.

Women’s leadership also contributes to restoration. TreeSisters reports an 89% tree survival rate across its supported projects, well above the average, with women and girls making up 80% of project leaders and beneficiaries last year.

Investing in girls’ rights means expanding their ability to learn, participate and shape their futures.

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Follow the initiatives and individuals working in this field:

• Evoca Foundation (@evoca.foundation)
• Paran Women Group (LinkedIn)
• Landesa (@landesaglobal)
• TreeSisters (@treesisters_official)
• MADRE (@madrespeaks)
• National Indigenous Women Forum (@niwf_nepal)
• Aïssatou Kankou Mballo (@loveaicha98)
• KIMPAVITA (@kimpavitadkr)
• Land is a Conversation (@landisaconversation)
• FSC Indigenous Foundation (@fscindigenousfoundation)

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#landuse #girlsrights #landrights #climatejustice #systemicchange by @icaruscomplexmagazine

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ARTICLE | Mumbai’s Coastal Road: Boon or Bane?

Completed in 2024 at a cost of $1.47 billion, Mumbai’s Coastal Road was presented as a solution to congestion in one of the world’s fastest-growing cities. But who does it actually serve?

The road is accessible primarily to the roughly 5% of Mumbai’s residents who own cars, while its construction involved clearing mangroves and displacing fishing communities. What does this tell us about who urban infrastructure is built for, and whose needs are left out?

Read the full article via the link in bio 🔗

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Words by Rupal Rathore
Photographs by Palak Babel (@palakbabel)

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#mumbai #urbanplanning #climateresilience #coastalcities #builtenvironment taken in Mumbai - मुंबई by @icaruscomplexmagazine

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8 days ago

THE IDEAL AI RULEBOOK

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed in terms of what it can do, but much less attention is given to what it takes to run.

Training and running AI models requires electricity, while the data centres behind them also need energy and, in many cases, water for cooling.

Data centres accounted for around 1.5% of global electricity consumption in 2024. The International Energy Agency (IEA) projects this could more than double by 2030, with AI the most important driver of this growth alongside other digital services.

The European Union (EU) is beginning to address this infrastructure. Providers of general-purpose AI models must document their energy consumption under the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act), while significant data centres already have reporting requirements covering energy performance and water footprint.

In September 2026, the European Commission also adopted a data-centre energy-efficiency package including a common rating scheme and work towards minimum performance standards.

But measuring consumption is only a starting point.

What could AI regulation look like if energy, water, infrastructure and efficiency were treated as part of the system, rather than as an afterthought? 💬

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#energyefficiency #artificialintelligence #AI #datacentres #climateimpact by @icaruscomplexmagazine

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9 days ago

PHOTO STORY | Ukraine’s Anti-Drone Defence

Five years into the war, Ukraine’s survival now depends in part on how well it can outsmart drones in the sky.

Photographer Kang-Chun Cheng travelled to Sloviansk, a critical flashpoint on the eastern front and a key military stronghold. There, she met three female soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 60th Brigade: an electronic warfare specialist, a drone pilot and a new recruit.

Their stories reveal another side of a war that has become a constant race between technology and survival, in a country still fighting for the world’s attention.

Read the full story via the link in bio 🔗

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Words and images by Kang-Chun Cheng (@takeme.north)
With @3bat.3corps

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#Ukraine #Technology #Photojournalism #VisualStorytelling #Ecocide taken in Ukraine by @icaruscomplexmagazine

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11 days ago

ARTICLE | The War After the War: Gaza’s Environmental & Human Catastrophe

The end of bombing does not mean the end of a catastrophe.

Since the ceasefire declared in October 2025, Gaza’s collapsed water and sanitation systems have continued to shape daily life, contributing to disease outbreaks, disability and ongoing public health risks.

Journalist Haya Abushkhaidem speaks with residents and healthcare workers about what comes after the destruction, and the environmental and human consequences that remain when the immediate violence subsides.

Read the full article via the link in bio. 🔗

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Words by Haya Abushkhaidem (@haya.ash93)
Photography by Ahmad Salem (@ahmad.moamer)

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#gaza #publichealth #watercrisis #humanitariancrisis #ecocide taken in Gaza,Palestine by @icaruscomplexmagazine

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13 days ago

📢 Meet the Jury for the 2026 Planet Poster Awards:

• Natalie Seisser – (@natalie.seisser) Designer, educator and founder of Anewkind Studio in Singapore, focused on regeneration and place-based learning. Editor of IMAGINE and leader of Climate Designers Singapore.

• Tawfiq Dawi – (@heyporterposter) Amman-based visual artist behind the experimental poster project Hey Porter!, exploring graphic design and Arabic typography. Founder of an independent digital type foundry.

• Siddhesh Gautam – (@bakeryprasad) Artist working across illustration, text and visual narratives, rooted in the visual documentation of the anti-caste movement. Also engages with climate justice and gender equality.

• Zipeng Zhu – (@zzdesign) Artist, designer, educator and founder of the award-winning studio DAZZLE in New York. Has collaborated with Apple, Adidas, The New Yorker and The New York Times.

• Roshi Rouzbehani – (@roshi_rouzbehani) British-Iranian illustrator exploring identity, migration and social justice through bold storytelling. Published in The Guardian, The New Yorker and The Washington Post.

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Deadline: 13 November 2026
This year's theme: 'Systems Disruption'

📩 How to enter:

👉🏽 Email us your poster & thinking

👉🏽 Follow us on Instagram & LinkedIn, and sign up for our newsletter

👉🏽 Post your poster on IG and tag @icaruscomplexmagazine — use #SystemsDisruption2026

⚠️ AI-generated work is not eligible.

🔗 Find more details via the link in bio.

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#PlanetPosterAwards #DesignForChange #OpenCall #CallForEntries by @icaruscomplexmagazine

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14 days ago

Wildland flames carry the sensation of heat into another dimension.

One day I am standing a dozen or so feet away from a thicket of chaparral at the moment it explodes into a crackling, 15-foot-tall plume of flame. The radiant heat sears my cheeks to the point where my skin feels ready to peel off.

I keep my Nikon right in front of my face as a heat shield, and keep shooting the dancing dragon until the brutal scorching of my hands drives me away.

A 15-foot flame is ordinary, though. Much, much bigger ones are a normal part of the game: 25 to 50 feet? Common. 100 feet? Frequent. 200 feet? Possible.

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Credit Line: James Balog, Fire Dragon, Fort Providence, Northwest Territories, Canada, June 25, 2015

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Just one day left to apply! The James Balog Earth Vision Award supports cutting-edge image-makers and the international photography community.

Applications are open until 1 October 2026, with awards made biennially from January 2027. Apply now via the link in bio 🔗

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#photofeature #climatecrisis #wildfire #fire #climatephotography taken in Canada by @icaruscomplexmagazine

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16 days ago