Daan Roosegaarde
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Daan Roosegaarde

Dutch artist

Daan Roosegaarde (born 1979) is a Dutch artist, pioneer and founder of Studio Roosegaarde, which develops projects that merge technology and art in urban environments. Some of the studio's works have been described as "immersive" and "interactive" because they change the visitors' surroundings in reaction to the behavior of those visitors.2

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Born Jul 24, 1979.1

About

Other works are intended to increase environmental awareness and to add an aesthetic dimension that complements the technical solutions to environmental problems.

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Companies

Early life and education

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Roosegaarde was born in 1979 in Nieuwkoop in The Netherlands. He studied at the Institute for the Arts in Arnhem (1997–1999), the AKI Academy for Art & Design in Enschede (2001–2003), and the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam (2003–2005).

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Career

Occupation: inventor, installation artist, artist, computer artist, designer, sculptor, software developer, innovator.5 6

Roosegaarde spoke at TED2017 in Vancouver in 2017. He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2015. He has also served as a visiting professor at Tongji University in Shanghai. Phaidon published a monograph on Roosegaarde's work as part of its Contemporary Artists series. His Space Waste Lab project was developed with advice from experts from the European Space Agency, including engineer Michel van Pelt and astronaut André Kuipers, as well as NASA experts.

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Personal life

  • BornJul 24, 1979, Nieuwkoop7
  • CitizenshipKingdom of the Netherlands8 9