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We live in a world shaped by algorithms, data, and constant streams of information. Every day brings new technologies, new ideas, and new anxieties. Yet beneath this accelerating reality, a simple question remains: Where is human connection? Where is the experience of being fully present? And where are the moments that bring people together in the physical world? If you have ever felt overwhelmed by the pace of modern life, and if you still believe in the value of genuine hum

The first generation of lighters in human history Hello This is an invitation Along the line between day and night on Earth With wind, with people, with action We will light up a flower path that spans the world We are gathering 3600 people Riding bikes, interacting with the wind through their bodies To light up the longest flower path in the world This will be the first Flower path powered by human energy Would you like to be part of it? Large models are taking away human th

A journey from inner worlds to real-world action. From questioning the meaning of life to making concrete choices— this essay traces an AuDHDer's path of rebuilding and growth through HappyPower.

This essay traces a shift in how we understand energy, use, and agency—from centralized systems and consumer identities toward distributed, bodily, and generative forms of participation. Drawing on energy history, design theory, political philosophy, and Indigenous ethics, it argues that being a “user” is not a passive role but a political position. To use is to act, to produce, and to take responsibility across time. As a user, I produce energy.

After reading “Play is a Right, and aAlso a Power,” a young designer wrote this letter to HappyPower — reflecting on the disappearance of playful spaces in cities, the hidden playfulness of adulthood, and the overlooked role of children as co-designers of space.

This is a personal founding story. It traces how a birthday wish, a typhoon, and a period of physical labor and volunteering led me into HappyPower. Through disaster recovery, collective action, and bodily experience, this essay reflects on play, energy, work, and why joy can become a serious form of power.

A festival pop-up installation that invited visitors of the First Fantastic Film Festival to play, generate power, and reconnect with one another. Through simple bodily movement, the campsite lit up with shared energy and spontaneous collaboration.

PlayPower Selected as a Young Changemaker at IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025

🎓 HappyPower Joins TruePhil 2025 Summer Cohort We are honoured to become part of the TruePhil 2025 Summer Cohort. This milestone...

At HappyPower, every milestone is also a reminder of the people who make it possible. Today, we celebrate our CTO, Melon, whose passion...

On September 6, 2024, Typhoon Yagi swept through Haikou. While the storm caused disruptions across the city, our community-built Playground without Walls survived completely intact. How did simple materials like rope, tape, and wire withstand a Category 17 typhoon? Beyond engineering, it was the collaboration, creativity, and resilience of our team and local children that made this possible.

When it comes to clean energy, what comes to mind? Solar power, wind power, hydropower? Biomass, geothermal, tidal energy? Or are there other possibilities?

This article has a whopping 20,000 words, packed with loads of funny pictures and all sorts of random stuff. Definitely one to bookmark...

Among over 500 startup applications from nearly 30 countries, HappyPower has been chosen to advance to the offline semi-final pitch of...

This article was initially framed around Playground Without Walls as a case study. It proposes a systemic structural hypothesis: if children’s physical activity and play can be reimagined as a form of public energy production—then could play itself become a basis for reconfiguring infrastructural logics, mechanisms of benefit-sharing, and even ethics of care?

Last weekend, HappyPower hosted a late-night youth talk —part of the UN Youth Office’s #YouthLead Dialogues, calling young voices worldwide to speak up this summer. Selected voices will head straight to the UN Youth Festival this September!

I. Project Origins & Context About the BottleDream Social Innovation Festival BottleDream is a social-innovation platform devoted to...

Happy Power’s off-grid playground in Haikou’s Binlian New Village turns kids’ motion into power. Co-designed by children, its modular seesaw-Ferris wheel, bike spin disk, 360° gyro and hamster wheel slip into tight alleys and resist typhoons. Built in 20 days on ¥80 000 crowdfunding, it logged 1 000 play sessions and energy for 300 phone charges in one weekend, sparked pop-up markets, and became the area’s sole emergency charger after storms. A replicable toolkit is forthcomi

The Ambassador recruitment is running in parallel. See the Ambassador post for details ▶ Play Into the Future – Ambassador Recruitment...