Aesthetica Magazine - Lighting the Future
Lighting the Future Daan Roosegaarde (b. 1979) works at the threshold of science, art and engineering â producing extraordinary large-scale interventions in public spaces. Many of his creations are designed to tackle our current ecological crises. For the Smog Free Project, for example, Roosegaarde and his team installed giant smog-filtering towers in urban locations, converting the gathered carbon particles in diamonds. Their Space Waste Lab, meanwhile, is working on innovative ways to track and capture space junk, including using light beams to trace it across the night sky. For Roos...