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. Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined till May 17 in Scottsdale Arizona, USA.

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

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.

Monument LEVENSLICHT opens in Rotterdam, remembering the 104,000 Holocaust victims with 104,000 luminescent stones. Follow the journey of LEVENSLICHT to 170 Dutch municipalities with Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei.

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.

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.

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

Our LOTUS MODEL at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo opens its smart flowers in response to light. Welcome till 29 March 2020 in Japan at the exhibition Future and the Arts which contemplates human society.

The Dutch designer on the importance of human connection, the challenge of upcycling space junk and why design must make the world a more sustainable and beautiful place. Now at CLAD.

Our large-scale phosphorescent exhibition PRESENCE at Groninger Museum is winner of 2019 LIT Lighting Design Award in the Visitor Experience & Museum Exhibition category.

Our SMOG FREE RING is now in the permanent art collection of the National Museum Zurich, Switzerland. The SMOG FREE RING contains smog collected by the SMOG FREE TOWER in China. By sharing a SMOG FREE RING you donate a 1000 m3 of clean air.

WATERLICHT wins Urban Design & Architecture Design Award 2019 for Lighting Design. WATERLICHT is the dream landscape about the power and poetry of water.

At the conference hall of the Palazzo Reale in Milan, Daan Roosegaarde is awarded with the Ethics Ethical Award for his SMOG FREE PROJECT against the massive air pollution.

Proud of our Mexican students and professor Daan Roosegaarde at UDEM University.

Watch Daan Roosegaarde and Gerdi Verbeet live on TV at DWDD about our new light monument "Levenslicht" to remember the 104.000 Holocaust victims.

The exhibition received a total of 100.000 visitors today. The solo exhibition peaked during the summer months. Never before has the Groninger Museum had so many visitors visiting the museum in this period. The exhibition can be visited until 12 January 2020.

Ahead of the United Nations Climate Action Summit, Columbia University New York will launch our new WATERLICHT, including lectures by Olafur Eliasson and Daan Roosegaarde. Welcome 22-24 October, Lenfest Center for the Arts in New York.

Great interview at the Today Show by Al Roker with Daan Roosegaarde and Carol Becker about WATERLICHT New York.

Scribit, the world’s first write&erase robot has teamed up with artist Daan Roosegaarde’s SPACE WASTE LAB to draw a map of orbital space waste trajectories on people’s walls. How can we capture and upcycle the million kilos of space waste? Available now at Scribit Originals.

Waterlicht at Fremantle Biennale 2019, Australia. Fremantle Biennale announced ‘Undercurrent 19’, the second edition of the city-wide contemporary art program showcasing experimental site responsive work from established and emerging artists from across the world. Open from November 1 till 3. This will be the first time Waterlicht will be shown in the Southern Hemisphere, raising awareness for rising water levels and the climate change crisis.

The International Architecture Awards honors the best and most significant new buildings by the world’s leading architects organised by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. This year our GATES OF LIGHT was awarded for its poetic excellence in transportation architecture.

The exhibition ‘Endless Life’ exhibits our DUNE and LOTUS MODEL at Buitenplaats Doornburgh, NL. Will it soon be possible to extend our lives endlessly? What does that mean for our way of life, for society and our planet? During ‘Endless Life’ artists and scientists will reflect on the extension of life. From 13 September till 29 December.

At Fortune Global Sustainability Forum Daan Roosegaarde and William McDonough are designing a new world. Watch it now on Fortune's Youtube moderated by Clay Chandler in Yunnan, China. Daan Roosegaarde: “I don’t believe in utopia, I believe in protopia: designing prototypes for solutions that create a better world."

Gwangju Design Biennale 2019 in South Korea exhibits our Lotus Dome with its heat sensitive smart flowers which fold open in response to human warmth and light.

Daan Roosegaarde wins 40 Under 40 Award as one of the Best Emerging Young Architects & Designers in Europe. Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, Museum President of The Chicago Athenaeum states: “These are some of the brightest and most progressive architects and designers ever selected in this program over the years".

Studio Roosegaarde is growing and therefore looking for a Designer and a Project Manager who have experience to implement creative ideas into practice. Apply now: work@studioroosegaarde.net.

Watch Daan Roosegaarde at World Economic Forum's live feed in conversation with Minister of State UAE for Advanced Sciences Sarah Al Amiri and CEO Airbus Dirk Hoke about Space Waste Lab and its solutions.

PRESENCE is the exhibition of a new 800 m2 dream landscape which evokes visitors to become aware of their own presence in a unique manner. Welcome 22 June till 12 January 2020 at Groninger Museum NL, with special book signing by Daan Roosegaarde at 15.30 June 22.

Artwork SYNC in collaboration with BMWi at Art Basel shows the beauty of connectivity. Using laser and a smart membrane people create their own space of light, inspired by the autonomous driving technology. SYNC does not only shows the individual impact but also how crucial our human interactions are for a sustainable future. Open for public 13 to 16 June at BMW Art Basel.

The UN-Habitat interviewed Daan Roosegaarde about our Smog Free Project: how do you Innovate for Change?