Happy Together 3 . "Next Nature: How Technology becomes Nature"
Next Nature: How Technology becomes Nature - Koert van Mensvoort
moderator: Vítor Moura
Interactive paint, medical candy, lab grown meat and the Twitter tooth are a just few of the products that might hit the shelves in the future. Dr. Van Mensvoort designs speculative products to provoke debate on the new technologies that are transforming our lives. Wild systems, genetic surprises autonomous machinery, and beautiful black flowers. Our technological environment has become so complex, omnipresent and autonomous that it becomes a nature of its own. Yet, despite our deep-rooted relationship with technology, most of us are still relatively unaware of how new technologies are introduced, accepted or discarded within our society. Dr. Van Mensvoort will show how technology becomes nature in seven steps and what engineers, inventors, designers and entrepreneurs can learn from that.
Koert van Mensvoort
Koert van Mensvoort is director of the Next Nature Network; a 21st century nature movement that aims to go forward – not back –to nature. Furthermore he is appointed Next Nature fellow at the Eindhoven University of Technology, board member of the Society of Arts at the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences and supervisory board member of VPRO. Earlier Van Mensvoort worked a researcher at the Center for User-System Interaction (1998-2003), as a teacher at the Sandberg Institute (2002-2006) and as a Visionary in Residence at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (2008). Van Mensvoort is author of numerous books and publications; among them Next Nature, Save the Humans, Pyramid of Technology, What You See Is What You Feel, Natuur 2.0 and the In Vitro Meat Cookbook.
Program
11 November (7 pm) . talk Next Nature: How Technology becomes Nature with Koert van Mensvoort . Forum of the Future, Teatro Rivoli