As a social design lab, Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde and his team connect people and technology in installations that improve daily life in urban environments and spark the imagination. Clean air, clean water, clean energy, and clean space are their new values, and light is their language.
Internationally acclaimed works include WATERLICHT (a virtual flood showing the power of water), SMOG FREE PROJECT (the world's first outdoor air purifier which turns smog into jewellery), SMART HIGHWAY (roads that charge throughout the day and glow at night), SPACE WASTE LAB (visualising and up-cycling space waste), world's first URBAN SUN (cleans public spaces of the coronavirus) recently SEEING STARS (switching off all the city lights to bring back the stars), the new organic fireworks SPARK, and the world's largest FIREFLY GARDEN in Bali.
Roosegaarde’s mantra 'Schoonheid’ is a Dutch word with two meanings: ‘beauty’, as in creativity, and ‘clean’, as in clean air and clean energy. For Roosegaarde these should be fundamental conditions of daily life.
In his Phaidon monograph, he says: "We first have to imagine a better future and only then can we create it. People won't change because of numbers. But if we can trigger curiosity for a better world, that's how to activate people. I don't believe in utopia, but in protopia; improving the world around us step by step."
Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde (1979) is a creative thinker and maker of social designs that explore the relation between people, technology and space. From an early age, Roosegaarde was inspired by nature’s gifts, such as luminous fireflies or jellyfish. His fascination for nature and technology features in his iconic works, such as SMOG FREE PROJECT (the largest outdoor air purifier, which turns smog into jewellery), VAN GOGH PATH (bicycle path which glows at night), and URBAN SUN which cleans public spaces of the coronavirus.
Roosegaarde studied Fine Arts and graduated from The Berlage Institute in Rotterdam with a Master in architecture. He founded Studio Roosegaarde in 2007, where he works with his team of designers and engineers on landscapes of the future.
Daan Roosegaarde is Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, visiting professor at the University of Monterrey in Mexico, an advisor for Design Singapore Council, a professor Design & Innovation at Tongji University Shanghai, and a member of the NASA Innovation team. He has been selected by Forbes, WIRED and Good 100 as a creative change maker.
Daan Roosegaarde frequently lectures worldwide including at TED and NASA, where he shares his visionary ideas and projects. Phaidon has published a monograph of Daan Roosegaarde.
Daan Roosegaarde frequently lectures worldwide including at TED and NASA, where he shares his visionary ideas and projects. In his lectures he presents his latest projects — from the bicycle paths in the Netherlands where he reinterpreted “The Starry Night” to get people thinking about green energy, to Beijing, where he developed a smog vacuum cleaner to purify the air in local parks, to a dance floor that generates electricity to power a DJ booth. Experience Roosegaarde’s vision for a future where creativity is our true capital.
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