Daan Roosegaarde will inspire on how to design a better future at AIBC Confab 2021 by the Architectural Institute of British Columbia. Join us in the online lecture and Q&A on 11 May, 12.30 PM GMT-7.

Our URBAN SUN is honoured as finalist of the FastCompany World Changing Ideas Award 2021 Urban Design.

Our GROW wins two international design awards at [d]arc in London and MUSE Award by International Awards Associate. GROW uses the power of light to improve agriculture.

Today URBAN SUN which sanitises public space of viruses is world news and reached more than 850 million people. Thank you BBC, Yahoo, Reuters, Dezeen, Fastcompany, Frame, Jinek and many others. Looking forward to URBAN SUN's possibilities shining, and more applications in the future.

As PR & Media Manager at Studio Roosegaarde you work on the all-round storytelling of our new groundbreaking projects which show the beauty of a sustainable society.

Using the power of light to sanitise public space for better human gatherings.

Traditional UV light at 254nm is harmful. URBAN SUN uses a new, 222nm far-UVC light which is considered safe for both people and animals.

Watch Daan Roosegaarde's interview on Dutch television Jinek about URBAN SUN, with more than 2.3 million views in the first week.

Scientists talk about the science of URBAN SUN in the Radio 1 interview with Ab Osterhaus, Andreas Voss and Ivo Lede (in Dutch).

World's first URBAN SUN creates better public spaces.

Today GROW reached around 665 million people. Thank you Dezeen, Yahoo, Corriere della Sera, Designboom, Trouw, Fastcompany, NRC, Reuters, World Economic Forum, RTL Nieuws, Monocle, FD, Rotterdam Partners, NBTC and many others to make GROW grow and inspire.

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

GROW shines a new light on the beauty of agriculture. The 20,000m2 luminous dreamscape is inspired by scientific light recipes which improve plants’ growth and resilience.

GROW is the 20,000m2 luminous dreamscape inspired by scientific light recipes which improve plants’ growth and resilience.

URBAN SUN inspires safer social gatherings and cleans public spaces of the coronavirus.

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.