If you happen to be in the neighborhood, you may want to attend that inspirational Next Nature lecture Dr. Van Mensvoort will be throwing this Sunday 15-11-2009 at the Microwave International New Media Arts Festival in Hong Kong.
The festival is highly resonating on the nature caused by people. They will also screen parts of the Next Nature DVD and reprint the Real Nature is not Green essay. Nature transforms along with us!
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Out now: A Next Nature DVD with over twenty visions of artists, scientists, designers, filmmakers and thinkers who present their powerful imagery, radical ideas and visionary statements on how we can design, build and live in on the nature caused by people.
Filmed during the Biggest Visual Power Shows at Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL), Zeche Zolverein (DE) and the Million Dollar Theater in Los Angeles (USA). The DVD box contains a booklet including the essay Real Nature is not Green. Among the presenters are Floris Kaayk, Kevin Kelly, Tobie Kerridge, Jack van Wijk, Sunny Bergman, Hendrik-Jan Grievink, Karl Grandin, Casey Alt, Amir Admoni, Jos de Mul, Tracy Metz, Henk Oosterling and many more.
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This years edition of the Ars Electronica festival, which has been hangout for international experts from the arts and sciences for almost three decades, focuses on the nature caused by people:
Human Nature: The Reinvention of Nature
We are entering a new age here on Earth: the Anthropocene. An age definitively characterized by humankind’s massive and irreversible influences on our home planet. Population explosion, climate change, the poisoning of the environment and our venturing into outer space have been the most striking symbols of this development so far.
But to a much more enormous extent, the achievements of genetic engineering and biotechnology are the truly indicative markers of this transition to a new epoch. Now, we’re not only changing our environment; we’re revising the fundamentals of life itself—even our own human life.
Among the works on display are the Cloned robot professor, Flesh nike, Living doll, Cloned beef, human body farming and conductive bodypaint.
Ars Electronica 2009: Human Nature is organized from September 3rd – 8th in Linz, Austria.
Students of the Next Nature Theme at TU/e Industrial design in Eindhoven decided to jungle-up their working environment a bit with the corporate animal wallpaper.
Hand painted (!) by Jurrian Tjeenk Willink, Glenn Jacobs, Kevin Pfeil and Josien Rijswijk. Original pattern design by Karl Grandin, of whom the corporate animal sweater is still available.
See also: Corporate animal pattern laptop engraving, Five strategies of biomimicmarketing, A wood of logos, Nextnature@Volume magazine, Designing for Next Nature @ TU Eindhoven.
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Remember the Next Nature pocket, featuring a 140 page trip of visions and statements from thinkers from around the globe on their explorations in next nature?
We now consider that funky little booklet officially outdated. There will be no future reprints and the current leftovers are on sale for the giveaway price of € 5,00 through the website of Bis Publishers (shipping not included), or you can get it for $7,00 at Amazon.
We are working on a new bigger and better publication on Next Nature, to be released in 2010.
Starting February 2009 the Industrial Design department of the Eindhoven University of Technology takes Next Nature as one of its educational themes.
The Industrial Design department at TU/e, which welcomes around 150 students per year, has a bachelor and a master course with a special learning model in which students simulate being junior employees of a design agency that takes assignments from inside and outside the university. Throughout their studies, students conduct project within the various educational themes at the department. Among the other educational themes are AutoMobility, Playful Interactions, Medical Care and Wearable Senses.
The Next Nature theme will focus on living products, calm technology, wild systems, genetic surprises, manipulating growth, virtual for real, designing by evolution, nano worlds and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Professional organizations interested in running projects within the Next Nature theme at TU/e are invited to make contact.
See also: Designing for Next Nature: Selected Proposals, Designing for Next Nature Workshop report.
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Designing for NextNature @ TU Eindhoven
Call for Proposals: Three Days Left
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