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Spacefarming
Next Nature presents the 'Spacefarming: the future of food' at the Evoluon. This exhibition explores how we can grow our food differently in the future, or even on other planets.
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SWIPE
Ever left your phone at home by mistake and felt like you are missing a limb? Turns out, a lot of us feel that way. We need to talk about smartphones. SWIPE is a movie about your phone, on your phone.
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RetroFuture
From the Egyptians believing in eternal life to flying cars and jetpacks; humans have always been keen on dreaming about the future. While some predictions have become reality, others still remain a fantasy. We don’t own jetpacks yet after all. As we follow the trail of technological teases and wild expectations, we encounter yesteryear's utopian (and dystopian!) visions about today.
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VR Time Machine
Good day passengers. This is your boarding call for our VR Time Machine. Your destination: Big Future. Mode of transport: Virtual Reality. We have clear weather today. Our flight time takes not 10, 100 or 1000 years, but billions of years ahead into the future.
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Meat the Future
Some scientists believe in vitro meat could become a sustainable and animal friendly way to produce meat. But before deciding if we are willing to eat meat from the lab, we need to explore the food culture it brings us.
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ECO coin
Would the rain forest still be destroyed if we could pay people to let the trees stand? The ECO coin is an alternative currency to express environmental value. This is how we connect economy and ecology.
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Future Food Formula
The Future Food Formula is an interactive installation by Chloé Rutzerveld that allows you to step into the shoes of a high-tech farmer and design your personalized future vegetables.
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Rayfish Footwear
Rayfish Footwear is a fictional company that offers personalized sneakers crafted from genetically modified stingray leather. It’s launch catalyzed a debate on new biotechnologies and questioned our (often all too consumptive) relationship with animals. We aimed to make that discussion tangible in a concrete product you can either love or hate.
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Reprodutopia
What does the future family look like? Should we externalize pregnancy with artificial wombs? And are these feminist dreams or frankenstein nightmares? It’s time for a much-needed discussion about the way technology radically alters our attitude towards reproduction, gender, relationships and love in the 21st century.
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HUBOT
The robots are coming! They are getting smarter, cheaper and more reliable. How long will I have my job before a robot steals it? The industrial revolution made muscular power redundant, the digital revolution automates our thinking. How to cope with that? Are we working against, or with the robot?
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New Evoluon
Good day astronauts of spaceship Earth. This is the pre-boarding announcement for Evoluon, the training facility to encourage humanity to work together as a harmonious crew — for the future generations to come.
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Floriade 2022
There is a love story we want to introduce you to. About the bond between technological progress and nature's billions of years of wisdom. Nature Loves Technology is about this budding relationship and how together, they can both happily thrive.
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Next Nature Showcase
We are proud to present to you, our largest showcase yet: spanning across three floors, with a total surface of 1200 m2, this exhibition truly is a Next Nature showcase extraordinaire. This is where you get to experience your favourite Next Nature projects in a completely new light.
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Next Nature book
We dream about escaping to - and debate saving nature, but rarely do we ask what ‘nature’ actually is. Where technology and nature are traditionally seen as opposed, they now appear to merge or even trade places. With our urge to design our environment, we cause the rising of a next nature that is unpredictable as ever; it seems that nature changes along with us.
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The Modular Body
The Modular Body is an online science fiction story by Floris Kaayk about the creation of OSCAR, a living organism built from human cells. Its inventor is Cornelis Vlasman, a versatile and innovative biologist. Together with a like-minded team of professionals, he starts an independent laboratory in which he experiments with organic materials.
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WiFi Angels
WiFi radiation is all around, yet invisible to our human senses. The WiFi Angels app lets you sense electromagnetic radiations by turning the WiFi networks around you into a choir of singing angels. Next time when you search for WiFi, just follow the angels.
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Next Nature Habitat VR
The natural habitat of the polar bear is the Arctic. The natural habitat of the scorpion is the desert. How about humans? What is our natural habitat? And how is this changing? What does it mean to live in a next nature?
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NANO Supermarket
The NANO Supermarket presents speculative products that may hit the shelves in the next ten years. Innovative and beautiful, uncanny and disturbing, but always specifically designed to provoke discussion, the products provide us with thought-provoking scenarios that help us decide what future we actually want.
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