A smog vacuum cleaner and other magical city designs | Daan Roosegaarde

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🗓️ 5 September 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Daan Roosegaarde uses technology and creative thinking to produce imaginative, earth-friendly designs. He presents his latest projects -- from the sidewalks of Amsterdam, where he reinterpreted "The Starry Night" to get people thinking about green energy, to Beijing, where he developed a smog vacuum cleaner to purify the air in local parks, to a dance floor that generates electricity to power a DJ booth. Check out Roosegaarde's vision for a future where creativity is our true capital.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features artist Don Roskard recorded live at TED 2017.
0:06.0	You remember these glow-in-the-dark little stars which you had on the ceiling when you were a boy or a girl?
0:13.0	Yes? It is light. It is pure light. I think I've been staring at them way too long when I was a five-year-old.
0:20.0	It's so beautiful.
0:21.4	No energy bill, no maintenance.
0:24.5	It is there.
0:25.6	So two years ago, we went back to the lab,
0:27.7	making it more durable, more light emitting with the experts.
0:31.5	And at the same time, we got a request from this guy,
0:35.3	Van Gogh, the famous Van Gogh Foundation,
0:37.8	who wanted to celebrate his 125th anniversary in the Netherlands.
0:42.3	And they came to me and asked,
0:44.3	can you make a place where he feels more alive again in the Netherlands?
0:49.3	And I like that question a lot.
0:50.3	So in a way, we sort of started to connect these two different worlds. This is how my brain
0:56.9	works, by the way. I would love to keep on doing this for an hour. But okay. And this is the result
1:03.5	that we made, a bicycle path which charges at daytime via the sun and glows at night up to
1:09.6	eight hours.
1:12.6	Thank you. Hinting towards a future which should be energy-friendly
1:17.6	and linking up the local ground as Vengo literally walked and lived there in 181883.
1:22.6	And you can go there every night for free.
1:24.6	No ticket needed.
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