{"id":26591,"date":"2022-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designdiffusion.com\/2022\/03\/01\/daan-roosegaarde-art-design-and-clean-energy\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T11:56:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T09:56:16","slug":"daan-roosegaarde-art-design-and-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designdiffusion.com\/en\/2022\/03\/01\/daan-roosegaarde-art-design-and-clean-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Daan Roosegaarde: art, design and clean energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

An artist and a designer, Daan Roosegaarde thinks that sustainability is a collective process that involves the community<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Daan Roosegaarde is a Dutch artist with an all-around creativity, who uses art and design to innovate<\/strong>. With a diploma in Fine Arts and a master\u2019s degree in Architecture obtained from the Berlage Institut in Rotterdam, he is among the contemporary artists who are most attentive to environmental sustainability. In 2007, he founded Studio Roosegaarde, which involves a community of designers and engineers.<\/p>\n

In addition to his independent professional work, Roosegaarde is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, visiting professor at the University of Monterrey in Mexico, advisor at the Design Singapore Council, professor of Design & Innovation at Tongji University in Shanghai, and a member of the NASA Innovation team. Daan has been selected by Forbes, WIRED, and Good 100 as a creative change maker. The recipient of numerous awards, Daan Roosegaarde<\/a><\/strong> creates social projects that explore the relationship between people, technology, and space<\/strong>. His projects include many installations that eliminate smog, develop innovative ideas for agriculture, and capture space waste.<\/p>\n

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Light and beauty for the landscapes of the future<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Is<\/strong> Daan Roosegaarde<\/a><\/strong> an artist, a designer or an architect? <\/strong>Are installations like WATERLICHT or SMOG FREE TOWER art, design or architecture? <\/strong>Or all of them?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am an artist and an innovator, a creative thinker, and a creator of social projects that explore the relationship between people, technology, and space. My work revolves around the concept of schoonheid<\/em>, a Dutch word meaning \u2018beauty\u2019 and \u2018clean\u2019, where beauty comes from creativity, and cleanliness comes from clean air and clean energy. Clean air, clean energy and beauty should be part of everyone’s daily life. I always work with light; light is life, light is hope, and light is our language. My work, therefore, always includes beauty and light, and, at that point, it becomes irrelevant which category it belongs to \u2013 architecture, art, design. The most important thing, for me, is that my work reflects me, and that I can let people experience the landscapes of the future.<\/p>\n

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Waterlicht is a virtual flood that shows how high the water level could rise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cFor a more sustainable world, we must do more, not less\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n

What are the \u201clandscapes of the future\u201d? Is it a way to talk about sustainability?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think we need to find alternative ways to talk about sustainability, because we live in a fluid world, not a static one. The things we do today, in terms of economics and energy, are no longer effective. We keep thinking that to be sustainable we have to do less<\/strong>, we have to reduce our energy consumption, because we think it’s better for the environment \u2013 fewer cars, fewer showers, less electricity, less water. But the truth is that we shouldn’t be doing less, we should be doing more, to push people to imagine a different world<\/strong>. Usually, when we talk about sustainability, we talk about numbers: 40% less, 1.5 degrees, but I don’t think people will change their behavior to change the numbers; however, they might if they could imagine a better future.<\/p>\n

Liquid Landscape is a permanent public artwork commissioned by the Arte Sella contemporary open-air museum in Italy. Watch the video<\/p>\n