Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde (1979) is a creative maker of social designs which explore the relation between people, technology and space. Daan and his team of designers and engineers connect people and technology in artworks that improve daily life in urban environments, spark imagination and fight the climate crisis. Clean air, clean water, clean energy, and clean space are their new values and light is their language.
He founded Studio Roosegaarde in 2007. Internationally acclaimed works include WATERLICHT (a virtual flood showing the power of water), SMOG FREE PROJECT (the world's first largest outdoor air purifier which turns smog into jewelry), SMART HIGHWAY (roads that charge throughout the day and glow at night), SPACE WASTE LAB (visualizing and up-cycling space waste) and now world's first URBAN SUN which cleans public spaces of the coronavirus. Daan Roosegaarde frequently shares his visionary ideas and projects at lectures across the world, including at TED and NASA.
Roosegaarde has won numerous prestigious awards including the Shenzhen Global Design Award, LIT Lighting Design Award 2019, World OMOSIROI Award Japan, Beijing Media Architecture Award, Design Project of the Year Dezeen Award, London Design Innovation Medal, the INDEX Design Award, Platinum A'Design Award 2017, D&AD Awards 2017, Dutch Artist of the Year 2016, the World Technology Award, etc.
SELECTED ART WORKS:
Grow
WaterLicht
Presence
Van Gogh Path
Windvogel
Lotus Dome
Urban Sun
Smog Free Project
Space Waste Lab
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