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.
A love story
Imagine a world in which nature and technology are in balance. A relationship that we humans must embrace with love, so that together they live happily ever after. After all, we are nature ourselves. The exhibition 'Nature Loves Technology' is about the connection between technological innovation and all of nature's wisdom.
Imagine a world in which nature and technology are in balance. A relationship that we humans must embrace with love, so that together they live happily ever after. After all, we are nature ourselves. The exhibition 'Nature Loves Technology' is about the connection between technological innovation and all of nature's wisdom.
An exhibition where technological innovation collaborates with nature's rich diversity and evolutionary experience. In this year's theme, Growing Green Cities, nature is a co-creator of our urban habitats. Our bio based natural pavilion features innovations from over 24 artists exploring this relationship. Kiss the future!
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Dutch innovation experience
On the ground floor you will enter the future food restaurant where we present a radical new system of our food and the eating rituals that come with it. Visit the world’s first self-powering greenhouse by solar designer Marjan van Aubel, bringing the future of farming into our cities. You will also find the below works on each floor:
ECO coin - Next Nature
Bistro In Vitro: Meat the future - Next Nature
Politics of Food - A Radical New Food System for the Post-Anthropocene City - Chloé Rutzerveld
Those Vegan Cowboys - Jaap Korteweg & Niko Koffeman
Power Plant - Marjan van Aubel
The Museum of Endangered Foods - Sharp & Sour
Marker Wadden - Natuurmonumenten, Rijkswaterstaat, Boskalis, Nieuw Land National Park.
The Netherlands in 2120 - Wageningen University & Research
The Fish Migration River - An initiative of the Waddenvereniging, It Fryske Gea, Sportvisserij Nederland, NetVISwerk, het Blauwe Hart and developed by De Nieuwe Afsluitdijk.
The first floor offers a new form of fashion in which garments grow, evolve and decay. Earn Eco coins in a new green economy that places value in sustainable actions. Envision a world without plastic with seaweed-ware bioplastic. Discover 3D printed organic materials that create unique habitats that stimulate biodiversity in the urban environment.
First Encounters - Sophie Falkeis
Kadans 2.0 – Aliki van der Kruijs & Jos Klarenbeek
Next Nature Habitat VR - Daniel Fraga, Next Nature
Zeewier Cyclus – 3Dbakery – Studio Klarenbeek & Dros
Caravel - Ivan Henriques
Living Light Lamp - Ermi van Oers, Nova Innova
On the second floor take shelter within the moulds of mycelium as we reimagine aviation with Studio Cartier’s Growing Aeroplanes. Find alternative materials made in collaboration with nature, such as Seaweed Colours for clothing, with Fruitleather for the accessories.
Fruitleather Rotterdam - Koen Meerkerk & Hugo de Boon
Aireal - Teresa van Dongen
Fur_tilize - Dasha Tsapenko, Han Wösten
SeaWood Materials - BlueBlocks
FORESTA Acoustic System, Mogu Floor Flex -MOGU & Arup Group
Treekind® - Biophilica
Mymo - Studio Cartier, SIGN
Growing Aeroplanes - Studio Cartier, SIGN
My cel & Floor Lamp - Rob van Houten (My cel), Peter Oei (Floor Lamp)
Seaweed Colours - Zeefier
Urban Reef - Max Latour & Pierre Oskam
Nature Loves Technology was developed by Next Nature for the Floriade world horticultural exhibition and is part of the Dutch Innovation Experience (DIX). Compiled by Next Nature fellows William Myers and Emma van der Leest.
For this exhibition, Next Nature Academy developed a DIY book. This book can be used at home, but it also offers many possibilities for the classroom. Throughout its pages, children will find information about the artworks and designs that can be seen at the Floriade in the Dutch Experience Pavilion. Download the free PDF (Dutch only).
When can I visit?
From April 14th till October 9th you can visit Nature Loves Technology at Floriade 2022, the international horticulture exhibition in Almere, NL. Floriade is about green, sustainable and creative solutions for the cities of the future. Our pavilion will keep flourishing after the expo, as the plot on reclaimed ground adapts to its surroundings.
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