Thomas Ermacora is an award winning danish-Italian futurist, architect, technologist, author, and impact investor. Founder of the pioneering tactical urbanism charity Clear-Village.Org, East London’s first independent cultural incubator (Limewharf.Org) and the UK’s leading impact Maker Space (MachinesRoom.Org), he designs and advises a range of scale regenerative initiatives with his ‘recode’ practice philosophy, helping accelerate places toward local resilience and restore community wellbeing. 

Author of Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures(Routledge 2016), a global survey of the potential of participatory placemaking that presents his theory on place capital for greater urban balance. 

As an expert on the circular economy and open source processes his current emphasis is on how to harness the tools of the digital age, in particular the combination of AI, big data, machine learning, blockchain and next generation computing, in favor of economic growth, improved wealth distribution and alternative welfare solutions. 

Beyond his own ventures and productions, he is one of five futurists working to create an AI for good framework and advising the G7. He is a business angel involved in over 20 impact ventures, on the board of Apparent Energy, RegenVillages, Citymart, WasteFuel, and the frontier space Pioneer Works amongst others. 

Ermacora is also a futurist for the Xprize, a Clinton Global Initiative LEAD fellow, advisor to the World Economic Forum ‘Sharping the Future of Urban Development and Services’ Initiative, Danfoss Urban Sustainability Solutions Explorer, brainstrust member of the PPS UNHabitat Placemaking Forum, and a founding partner of the Laudato Si Challenge, ReACT Refugee Hub at MIT where he is a research fellow, and Falkora, his Neurotech initiative with global mental health advocate Princess Khaliya. 

Ermacora’s works have been featured in numerous publications including Wired, Monocle and Dezeen and he is a regular contributor to various journals while he has spoken at over 100 venues including TEDx, Citylab, Monocle24, Techonomy, Websummit, Singularity, Near Future and the UN General Assembly.