Daan Roosegaarde

Dutch artist, Daan Roosegaarde, is one of the most innovative artists to emerge in the past decade. His sculptures and installations, made in collaboration with a team of engineers and designers, aim to create better conditions in cities and to make difficult areas habitable again, by rethinking processes and upgrading urban structures. At the core of Roosegaarde's practice is schoonheid, a Dutch word that stands both for 'clean-ness' and 'beauty.' It is this that has informed some of his most popular public projects, including Waterlicht (a virtual flood that shows the force of water); Smog Free Project (a large outdoor air purifier that turns smog into jewelry), and Smart Highway (an interactive road that charges throughout the day and glows at night).- Carol Becker is Dean of Faculty and Professor of the Arts at Columbia University in New York.Nico Daswani is the head of arts & culture at the World Economic Forum in Geneva.Fumio Nanjo is the director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.Key Selling Points - Releasing to coincide with Roosegaarde's first retrospective, which takes place at the Groninger Museum, The Netherlands, in May 2019 - He has been the recipient of many prestigious awards, including Dutch Artist of the Year, the INDEX Award, and the London Design Innovation Medal - Listed by Forbes as one of the top-100 change-makers, Roosegaarde's TED talk, first viewed in June 2018, has enjoyed over a million views through the 15 languages into which it has been translated This is the first comprehensive publication available on Roosegaarde's multifaceted practice