Premiere on Monday January 18.

Join our journey towards URBAN SUN which inspires safer social gatherings and cleans the coronavirus in public spaces.

Inspired by the Sun, we dream that URBAN SUN shines its helping light to enhance our well-being and kills the coronavirus in public spaces.

Read more about URBAN SUN at RTL, DutchReview, AD, Designboom, BNR and many others.

Carlo Ratti and Daan Roosegaarde publish the article Design for Humanity at DOMUS: "We desperately need design and architectural solutions to reprogram our pandemic-stricken cities."

This month's National Geographic features our glowing nature research at Studio Roosegaarde about the beauty of light and darkness in nature.

Honoured to be part of the 200 year Naturalis exhibition, opened by our King. The wing of the morpho butterfly always remains vibrant reflective and is our inspiration for GATES OF LIGHT.

SUTD-MIT International Design Centre in Singapore is hosting a free public online seminar by Daan Roosegaarde “Prototyping the World of Tomorrow“ on 1 December 2020, Tuesday 4-5pm SGT.

How to design our sustainable future after COVID-19? Tune in Wednesday 18 November 11.00–12.30 for the free insight talk with Daan Roosegaarde and Tobias Wallisser at conference ADC Design Experience in Stuttgart.

Join us for the keynote by Daan Roosegaarde 'Prototyping the World of Tomorrow' on 29 October at 10.00 online at the International Symposium MEET Creativity in Milan which inspires human-machine interaction and sustainability.

Our SMOG FREE TOWER wins BUILD Most Innovative Sustainable Design Project 2020 which recognises the world’s most innovative designers and architects.

Our GATES OF LIGHT wins the Global Future Design Award 2020 in category Lighting Design. The 60 permanent renovated floodgates at the Afsluitdijk with reflective layers of micro prisms use the headlamps of the cars to create an energy-neutral landscape of light.

Our PRESENCE is winner of the Award of Merit 2020 AZ Awards chosen from 1241 entries by the esteemed international jury in the category Temporary & Experiential Installations.

Join our team now at Studio Roosegaarde to make poetic landscapes of the future, as designer or intern or you just being you. We are open for enthusiastic people with a drive in design or technology. Mail your motivation to work@studioroosegaarde.net.

The SPACE WASTE LAB wins a Gold Award at the Future Mars Life competition in China for its design contribution to life in space.

Last night our WATERLICHT was the winner of a 2020 IESNYC Lumen Award in New York. The 2020 Lumen Jury: “The installation powerfully delivers social commentary without getting preachy.”

How can art inspire space waste solutions? Join Daan Roosegaarde in conversation with ESA Clean Space team about SPACE WASTE LAB at the webinar Thursday 23 July 15:00 CEST.

Can GLOWING NATURE replace streetlights? See our mysterious exhibition of 700 million year old microorganisms which glow upon your touch.

The new exhibition at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art shows designs that make use of waste products, including our SMOG FREE RING of 1000 m3 clean air. Welcome at Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined till September 6 in Scottsdale Arizona, USA.

The art monograph book of Daan Roosegaarde about his projects and ideas is published by Phaidon with contributions by Fumio Nanjo, Carol Becker, and Nico Daswani. Now available at Phaidon.

Nearly 10,000 people in New York came to experience WATERLICHT. Read more about Daan Roosegaarde's protopia; step by step improving the world in collaboration with Columbia University School of the Arts.

The SMOG FREE PROJECT wins again in China with the 2019-2020 Successful Design Award which recognises successful design for the future.

Monument LEVENSLICHT remembers the 104,000 Holocaust victims with 104,000 luminescent stones. LEVENSLICHT started in Rotterdam NL and was shared to 170 Dutch municipalities in collaboration with the National Committee.

Daan Roosegaarde is judging this year Dezeen Awards joined by Norman Foster, Joyce Wang, Michael Anastassiades and Paola Antonelli.

Last night in New York our PRESENCE exhibition was awarded with the 2020 Digital Dozen Storytelling Award as one of the most innovative narratives of today.

Follow Daan Roosegaarde and his team in the making of our largest work till date Icoon Afsluitdijk featuring GATES OF LIGHT, WINDVOGEL and GLOWING NATURE in the movie 32KM.

Studio Roosegaarde, also known as the Dream Factory, now at Fortune Magazine on the balancing act of art + commerce.

How can we capture and upcycle the 8.1 million kilo of space waste? How can we design new sustainable fireworks? Are you ready to upgrade the world? Join our team of designers and engineers at Studio Roosegaarde in Rotterdam NL where several new positions are available. Mail your proposal to work@studioroosegaarde.net

Daan Roosegaarde lecture Design by Nature at World Economic Forum in Davos is now online, moderated by Caroline Baumann of Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

Read more about LEVENSLICHT in The New York Times, Dezeen, Designboom, Washington Post, Arbitare, NOS, Domus, NRC, and a beautiful homage by mayor Ahmed Marcouch.

Today 170 exhibitions of LEVENSLICHT open in 170 municipalities of the Netherlands filled with local activities of memory and freedom.

Our exhibition PRESENCE - Daan Roosegaarde attracted a record amount of almost 180,000 visitors. Never before had the Groninger Museum so many visitors in the summer period. Stay tuned for the international tour.

Our Holocaust monument LEVENSLICHT with National Committee 4 and 5 May remembers 104,000 Holocaust victims with 104,000 specially developed luminescent stones in 170 municipalities in the Netherlands. Public opening: 16 January 2020, 19.25 at Eva Cohen-Hartogkade in Rotterdam, NL. (Photo: Daan Roosegaarde and Gerdi Verbeet).

Our new Holocaust monument LEVENSLICHT is a collective experience of light and commemoration throughout the Netherlands. LEVENSLICHT will open January 16 in Rotterdam and travel to 170 municipalities with a Holocaust history in the Netherlands.

GROW shines a new light on the beauty of agriculture.

Our PRESENCE exhibition at Groninger Museum is Second Award winner of the Urban Design & Architecture Design Awards. PRESENCE evokes visitors to become aware of their own presence in a unique manner.

Daan Roosegaarde: "Light monument LEVENSLICHT shows the magnitude of the Holocaust, with the 104,000 victims in the Netherlands. But it also shows hope for a better future. It is an honor to work on this project."

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.

Read the full interview about LEVENSLICHT with Daan Roosegaarde at Artnet by Nina Siegal.