What are the landscapes of the future? How do we design a future with clean air, clean water, clean energy, and clean space?

Join this talk by speculative architect and artist Daan Roosegaarde, founder of Studio Roosegaarde, a team of designers and engineers that create projects at the intersection of art and technology such as WATERLICHT (a virtual flood showing the power of water), SMOG FREE PROJECT (the world's first largest 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 upcycling space waste), and VAN GOGH BIKE PATH (a light-emitting bicycle path which glows at night and was inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night).

About Daan Roosegaarde
Roosegaarde’s work explores relations among people, technology, and space. He is best known for fabricating future landscapes. His mantra “Schoonheid” is a Dutch word that has two meanings: “beauty” and “to clean,” as in clean air, clean energy, and clean water. For Roosegaarde, “Schoonheid” is a fundamental condition of life.

He founded Studio Roosegaarde in 2007, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where he works with a team of designers and engineers to improve daily living in urban environments. Studio Roosegarde has created public space commissions for such cities as Rotterdam, Beijing, Paris, Toronto, and Stockholm. The Studio also initiates its own projects to research social innovations, gives lectures, and has a pop-up studio in Shanghai.

Roosegaarde, who has won numerous innovation and design awards, has exhibited at the Rijksmuseum and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; Design Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum and Tate Modern in London; Mori Art Museum in Tokyo; and Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. He has also been featured on Google Zeitgeist, a series of intimate gatherings of global thinkers and leaders, sponsored by the technology company.