Our SMOG FREE RING is now in the permanent art collection of the National Museum Zurich, Switzerland. The SMOG FREE RING contains smog collected by the SMOG FREE TOWER in China. By sharing a SMOG FREE RING you donate a 1000 m3 of clean air.
WATERLICHT wins Urban Design & Architecture Design Award 2019 for Lighting Design. WATERLICHT is the dream landscape about the power and poetry of water.
Groninger Museum presents Daan Roosegaarde’s first major museum solo show: PRESENCE which evokes visitors to become aware of their own presence in a unique manner. The exhibition already received a record amount of 100.000 visitors and can be visited until 12 January 2020.
The new art monograph book of Daan Roosegaarde about his projects and ideas is now published by Phaidon with contributions by Fumio Nanjo, Carol Becker, and Nico Daswani. Now available at Phaidon.
At the conference hall of the Palazzo Reale in Milan, Daan Roosegaarde is awarded with the Ethics Ethical Award for his SMOG FREE PROJECT against the massive air pollution.
Proud of our Mexican students and professor Daan Roosegaarde at UDEM University.
Watch Daan Roosegaarde and Gerdi Verbeet live on TV at DWDD about our new light monument "Levenslicht" to remember the 104.000 Holocaust victims.
The exhibition received a total of 100.000 visitors today. The solo exhibition peaked during the summer months. Never before has the Groninger Museum had so many visitors visiting the museum in this period. The exhibition can be visited until 12 January 2020.
Our new Holocaust monument LEVENSLICHT with Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei remembers the 104.000 Holocaust victims with 104.000 fluorescent stones and encourages to interact in municipalities all over the Netherlands. Opening 16 January 2020.
Ahead of the United Nations Climate Action Summit, Columbia University New York will launch our new WATERLICHT, including lectures by Olafur Eliasson and Daan Roosegaarde. Welcome 22-24 October, Lenfest Center for the Arts in New York.
Great interview at the Today Show by Al Roker with Daan Roosegaarde and Carol Becker about WATERLICHT New York.
Scribit, the world’s first write&erase robot has teamed up with artist Daan Roosegaarde’s SPACE WASTE LAB to draw a map of orbital space waste trajectories on people’s walls. How can we capture and upcycle the million kilos of space waste? Available now at Scribit Originals.
Waterlicht at Fremantle Biennale 2019, Australia. Fremantle Biennale announced ‘Undercurrent 19’, the second edition of the city-wide contemporary art program showcasing experimental site responsive work from established and emerging artists from across the world. Open from November 1 till 3. This will be the first time Waterlicht will be shown in the Southern Hemisphere, raising awareness for rising water levels and the climate change crisis.
The International Architecture Awards honors the best and most significant new buildings by the world’s leading architects organised by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. This year our GATES OF LIGHT was awarded for its poetic excellence in transportation architecture.
The exhibition ‘Endless Life’ exhibits our DUNE and LOTUS MODEL at Buitenplaats Doornburgh, NL. Will it soon be possible to extend our lives endlessly? What does that mean for our way of life, for society and our planet? During ‘Endless Life’ artists and scientists will reflect on the extension of life. From 13 September till 29 December.
At Fortune Global Sustainability Forum Daan Roosegaarde and William McDonough are designing a new world. Watch it now on Fortune's Youtube moderated by Clay Chandler in Yunnan, China. Daan Roosegaarde: “I don’t believe in utopia, I believe in protopia: designing prototypes for solutions that create a better world."
Gwangju Design Biennale 2019 in South Korea exhibits our Lotus Dome with its heat sensitive smart flowers which fold open in response to human warmth and light.
Daan Roosegaarde wins 40 Under 40 Award as one of the Best Emerging Young Architects & Designers in Europe. Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, Museum President of The Chicago Athenaeum states: “These are some of the brightest and most progressive architects and designers ever selected in this program over the years".
Studio Roosegaarde is growing and therefore looking for a Designer and a Project Manager who have experience to implement creative ideas into practice. Apply now: work@studioroosegaarde.net.
Watch Daan Roosegaarde at World Economic Forum's live feed in conversation with Minister of State UAE for Advanced Sciences Sarah Al Amiri and CEO Airbus Dirk Hoke about Space Waste Lab and its solutions.
PRESENCE is the exhibition of a new 800 m2 dream landscape which evokes visitors to become aware of their own presence in a unique manner. Welcome 22 June till 12 January 2020 at Groninger Museum NL, with special book signing by Daan Roosegaarde at 15.30 June 22.
Artwork SYNC in collaboration with BMWi at Art Basel shows the beauty of connectivity. Using laser and a smart membrane people create their own space of light, inspired by the autonomous driving technology. SYNC does not only shows the individual impact but also how crucial our human interactions are for a sustainable future. Open for public 13 to 16 June at BMW Art Basel.
The UN-Habitat interviewed Daan Roosegaarde about our Smog Free Project: how do you Innovate for Change?
Come and visit the world's first Smog Free Tower in Rotterdam, and enjoy clean air. Open for all at Vierhavensstraat 52.
Honoured to win the Shenzhen Global Design Award for Sustainable Development, a true Oscar in the design field. 谢谢你.
Our documentary 32KM is now on board all KLM planes as inflight movie. The movie follows Daan Roosegaarde and his team in the ups and downs of making Icoon Afsluitdijk, our largest work to date.
The VPRO Tegenlicht documentary Ruimtepuinruimers (Spacewastecleaners) investigates the 8.1 million kilo of space waste, and follows Daan Roosegaarde in his mission towards surprising solutions of the Space Waste Lab with ESA. Watch the VPRO Tegenlicht documentary (international version translated) or in Dutch about Space Waste Lab.
Daan Roosegaarde just received the World OMOSIROI Award in Japan for our Space Waste Lab.
Read the article at ArchDaily about how design studios explore new architecture, including Studio Roosegaarde.
The science behind making our largest Rainbow Station in the world is now published in this scientific paper at Optical Society of America.
Welcome at the keynote lecture by Daan Roosegaarde at Melbourne Design Week which examines how we might build cleaner, healthier, and more resilient cities. March 19, 16.45 in NGV International Great Hall Melbourne.
Domagoj Dukec, Director of the BMW M and BMW i Design Studio, in a pioneering talk with artist Daan Roosegaarde about the potentials of autonomous mobility and their impact on design. 13 March 19:00-20:30 at BMW Museum in Munich.
Daan Roosegaarde will present his first museum solo project: Presence a large-scale phosphorescent landscape at Groninger Museum which changes colour and shape. By using new materials and principles of physics, PRESENCE evokes visitors to become aware of their own impact. Opening June 22.
We are proud to announce that Daan Roosegaarde will be visiting professor at Monterrey University in Mexico. He will continue to share his vision and knowledge with Mexico’s future designers on how to build landscapes of the future.