Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde (1979) is a creative thinker and maker of social designs which explore the relation between people, technology and space.He founded Studio Roosegaarde in 2007, where he works with his team of designers and engineers towards a better future. Together they develop ‘Landscapes of the Future’, creating artworks and smart sustainable prototypes for the cities of tomorrow. Roosegaarde: “I don’t believe in utopia, I believe in protopia: improving step by step."Roosegaarde has been driven by nature’s gifts such as light-emitting fireflies and jellyfish from an early age. His fascination for nature and technology is reflected in his iconic designs such as Waterlicht (a virtual flood), Smog Free Project (the largest outdoor air purifier in the world which makes jewellery from smog), Space Waste Lab (the mission to up-cycle space junk that floats in space) and the recent Urban Sun which cleans coronavirus in public spaces.Daan Roosegaarde frequently shares his visionary ideas at conferences across the world such as TED, World Economic Forum and NASA. Roosegaarde graduated from The Berlage Institute with a masters in architecture. He is a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum Davos, a visiting professor at several universities, was selected by Forbes and Good 100 as a creative change maker and named Artist of the Year 2016 in The Netherlands.Roosegaarde has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the Shenzhen Global Design Award, Ethics Ethical Award, World OMOSIROI Award Japan, Dezeen Award, London Design Innovation Medal, DFA Gold and Grand Award Hong Kong, LIT 2017 Lighting Designer of the Year Award, D&AD Awards 2017, the World Technology Award, two Dutch Design Awards, the Charlotte Köhler Award, and China’s Most Successful Design Award. He has exhibited at the Design Museum London, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tate Modern, Tokyo National Museum, Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris, Victoria & Albert Museum, and various public spaces across the globe.Recently a monograph of Daan Roosegaarde was published by Phaidon.