Daan Roosegaarde

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Daan Roosegaarde (born 1979) is a Dutch artist and founder of Studio Roosegaarde, which develops projects that merge technology and art in urban environments.

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Early life and education

Roosegaarde was born in 1979 in Nieuwkoop in the Netherlands. He studied at the Institute for the Arts in Arnhem (1997-1999), the Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede (2001-2003), and the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam (2003-2005). He founded Studio Roosegaarde in 2007 in the Netherlands and later opened a "pop-up" studio in Shanghai, China.

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Design works and projects

Roosegaarde's projects often employ light and sensing technology in an interactive manner.

Intimacy was a project to design garments that reacted to changes in heat produced by people present or from the environment by changing the opacity of their "e-foil" material, based on sensor input. The e-foil material was produced in black and white versions.

Icoon Afsluitdijk is a design project to enhance the appearance of floodgates on Afsluitdijk, a floodgate dike in the Netherlands.

Beyond is a 397-foot (121 m) long lenticular print of cloud images, back-lit by LED lamps at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, which gives the illusion of depth into the image.
Roosegaarde's "Smog Free Project" consists of a tower that cleanses the air nearby, using positive ionization. Roosegaarde incorporated the collected pollutants into jewelry to fund and publicize the project. It was previously demonstrated in Rotterdam, Beijing, Tianjin, and Dalian. Smog Free Bicycle concept was introduced in 2017 to be part of Smog Free Project, and it will be developed with ofo.

Rainbow Station is a lighting project, in collaboration with Leiden University, which illuminates the 125-year-old Amsterdam Central Station.

Smart Highway is a collaboration with the Heijmans infrastructure group to use light, energy and information that interacts with traffic on roadways. It includes the Van Gogh Path--a 600-metre (2,000 ft) cycle path between Nuenen and Eindhoven, which uses embedded lights that twinkle to evoke Vincent Van Gogh's painting, The Starry Night.

Lotus 7.0 is an interactive wall lighting project, premiered in Paris.

The work from his Studio Roosegaarde has been exhibited at the Rijksmuseum, Tate Modern, Tokyo National Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Design Museum in London. Roosegaarde won the London Design Innovation medal in 2016.