Creative Urban Solutions by the Studio Roosegaardee

Studio Roosegaarde is the social design lab of Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde. Together with his team of designers and engineers, Roosegaarde creates landscapes of the future for a better world.

The studio connects people, technology and space to improve daily life in urban environments and spark the imagination.

1. VAN GOGH PATH is part of the SMART HIGHWAY, which are interactive and sustainable roads of tomorrow made possible by Daan and Heijmans Infrastructure. Its goal is to make smart roads by using light, energy and information that interact with the traffic situation. The bike path connects innovation with cultural heritage in the town of Nuenen NL, where Van Gogh lived in 1883. By charging at day-time via the sun, the path glows at night up to eight hours, allowing for efficient use of solar energy.

   

2. Daan and his team of experts created the world’s first smog vacuum cleaner. The 7-meter SMOG FREE TOWER uses positive ionisation technology to produce smog free air in public spaces, allowing people to breathe and experience clean air for free. Equipped with environment-friendly technology, it cleans 30 m3 per hour using very little green electricity. The effect of the SMOG FREE TOWER has been validated by the results compiled by the Eindhoven University of Technology. SMOG FREE PROJECT (including TOWER, BIKE and RING) is a series of urban innovations led by Daan Roosegaarde to reduce pollution and provide an inspirational experience of a clean future. The project has recently been launched in China, the Netherlands and Poland
3. WINDVOGEL are energy generating kites which have the potential to create up to 100 kW and can supply up to 200 households with green energy. Floating in the air, the smart kites move around and are connected with a cable to a ground station. This push and pull of the cable transforms into electricity, like the dynamo of a bicycle. Whilst flying, the installation also creates a visual symphony of dancing lines, celebrating the beauty of green energy.
4. GATES OF LIGHT, the new futuristic entrance of the Afsluitdijk, brings the 60 monumental floodgates originally designed by Dirk Roosenburg in 1932 back to their glory. Every day 20.000 cars pass by. The structures, augmented with a retro-reflective layer, can now be illuminated by the headlamps of passing cars (light reflected through small prisms) in the dark. If there are no cars on the road, the structures will not be illuminated. This way of using light requires zero energy and does not contribute to light pollution.

   

5. DUNE is the public interactive landscape that interacts with human behaviour. This hybrid of nature and technology is composed of hundreds of fibres that brighten according to the sounds and motions of passing visitors. DUNE, which seeks to enhance social interactions in the public spaces, was commissioned by Rotterdam City of Architecture so that Rotterdam citizens enjoy their walk at night.

Daan Roosegaarde: Dutch Artist and Innovator, Founder of Studio Roosegaarde

Daan is a Dutch artist, creative thinker and maker of social designs which explore the relation between people, technology and space. His works, including a bike path illuminated by thousands twinkling stones (running on solar energy) to mirror ‘Starry Night’, the world’s largest smog vacuum cleaner (air purifier) which uses no more electricity than a water boiler, are responses to the urban environment.

Professional Qualifications and Achievements:

Roosegaarde graduated from The Berlage Institute with a Master in Architecture. He founded Studio Roosegaarde in 2007, where he works with his team of designers and engineers towards a better future. Together they develop ‘Landscapes of the Future’ building smart sustainable prototypes for the cities of tomorrow.

Notable Awards: Roosegaarde is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum and named Artist of the Year 2016 in The Netherlands. Roosegaarde has won the London Design Innovation Medal, the INDEX Design Award, the World Technology Award, two Dutch Design Awards, the Charlotte Köhler Award, and China’s Most Successful Design Award. He exhibited at the Design Museum in London, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Tate Modern, Tokyo National Museum, Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris, Victoria & Albert Museum and various public spaces in Europe and Asia. Selected by Forbes and Good 100 as a creative change maker, Daan Roosegaarde shares his visionary ideas frequently at conferences across the world such as TED and Design Indaba.

Daan Roosegaarde will be a speaker at the upcoming IFLA World Congress 2018, 18 to 21 July 2018, Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore. To find out more, log on to http://www.ifla2018.com/