SMOG FREE TOWER by Daan Roosegaarde - June 2022 The world's first smog hoover.

Smog Free Tower by Daan Roosegaarde - A smog-free project - June 2022

Environment & Art - 19 June 2022

SMOG FREE TOWER by Daan Roosegaarde - June 2022

The world's first smog hoover.

Daan Roosegaarde: "True beauty is not a Louis Vuitton bag or a Ferrari, but clean air and clean energy."

And the SMOG FREE RING

Smog Free Project Tianjin - Photocredit Hasy - ©Daan Roosegaarde

The SMOG FREE TOWER is the world's first smog hoover, according to Danish environmental artist Daan Roosegaarde. It is intended to create parks with cleaner air and is therefore preferentially placed in these locations. It is part of the long-term Smog Free campaign, where Daan Roosegaarde is looking for solutions for clean air.

What it is:

According to Studio Roosegaarde, the 7-metre high SMOG FREE TOWER uses a patented positive ionisation technology to create smog-free air in public spaces.

The developers have equipped the tower with environmentally friendly technology so that 30,000 m3 per hour can be purified and only a small amount of green electricity is consumed. The SMOG FREE TOWER is also used in parks. According to Roosegarde, the results have already been validated by the Eindhoven University of Technology.

To spread its SMOG FREE TOWER, the studio is entering into workshops with governments, universities and the clean-tech industry. SMOG FREE PROJECT campaigns have been launched in South Korea, China, the Netherlands, Mexico and Poland.

Smog Free Project Rotterdam NL photocredit Willem de Kam - ©Daan Roosegaarde

Smog Free Tower Korea - ©Daan Roosegaarde

©Daan Roosegaarde

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an exclusive interview with Daan Roosegaarde. The Dutch artist's latest work will be a dreamscape of biodegradable sparks of light, an alternative to the much-missed fireworks tradition. SPARK will have its world premiere at "The Wellbeing Summit for Social Change" June 1-3 in Bilbao-Biscay, Spain.

SPARK is a sustainable alternative for the traditional and polluting methods of celebration. The artwork invites visitors to wonder and reflect on their connection to themselves, each other and the environment; a celebration of the interconnectedness between people and nature.

The SMOG FREE TOWER has won the following awards:

Winner of Successful Design Award China, Ethics Ethical Award, Grand Award for Sustainability, BUILD Architecture Awards 2020, Europe 40 Under 40 Award, Design That Educates Award, Gold Award Design For Asia, Platinum A'Design Award and German Design Award Excellent Product Design.

SMOG FREE RING:

Roosegaarde also designed the SMOG FREE RING made of compressed smog particles as a tangible souvenir. When the buyer shares a SMOG FREE RING, he or she donates 1000 m3 of clean air to the city.

SMOG FREE RING is part of the permanent art collection of the National Museum Zurich and the Stedelijk Amsterdam.

SMOG FREE RING - ©Daan Roosegaarde

The latest addition to the project is the SMOG FREE BICYCLE. An innovative bicycle that inhales polluted air, cleans it, and releases clean air around the cyclist.

Discover more about the studio:

https://www.studioroosegaarde.net/projects

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Daan Roosegaarde is an artist, designer and inventor. He studied at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam.

He founded his studio in 2007 and has since been realising projects with his team of designers, manager and engineers to show the beauty of a sustainable future. His artworks and designs are intended to improve people's daily lives, stimulate their imagination and in this way combat the climate crisis. Daan Roosegaarde shows prototypes for the cities of tomorrow with his projects like Smog Free Project (World's first smog vacuum cleaner which creates clean air parks), Gates of Light (60 light-reflective buildings illuminated by the headlamps of passing cars) or Space Waste Lab (The living lab with the European Space Agency to visualise, capture, and upcycle space waste into sustainable experiences).

He is recognised for his inventions by Forbes, Wired, the World Economic Forum and he is a member of the NASA Innovation Team.

He has already solved many problems or identified them in the first place and proposed alternatives. His creativity seems endless. One of the many restrictions of our time was the ban on fireworks, otherwise the highlight of many celebrations, which unites people. Daan Roosegaarde has tackled this issue in his latest project and developed SPARK, organic fireworks, is a sustainable alternative forcommunity events and celebrations.

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