DIGILE Foresight 2015: How Technology Becomes Nature

NEXT NATURE – KOERT VAN MENSVOORT

Dr. Koert Van Mensvoort MFA MSc @mensvoort

www.nextnature.net

HOW TECHNOLOGY BECOMES NATURE

Digile

29 January 2014

@MENSVOORT

ARTIST

SCIENTIST

DESIGNER

ENGINEER

PHILOSOPHER

DOCTOR

BLOGGER

AMATEUR

OrganicCoca-Cola?

© Koert van Mensvoort

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT NANOTECH?

WE KNOW IT’S SMALL

HOW WILL NANO TECHNOLOGY CHANGE OUR LIVES?

TIME FOR A NANO DEBATE

So we decided to make an exhibition disguised as a supermarket

It had to be supermarket noir: showing both utopian aswell as dystopian aspects.

So we decided to make an exhibition disguised as a supermarket

It had to be supermarket noir: showing both utopian aswell as dystopian aspects.

SUPER MARKET NOIR!

RETRO

FUTURE

ONE BUCKET OF PAINT, A THOUSAND COLORS FOR YOUR INTERIOR

INDIVIDUAL

EXPRESSIVE

PLEASURE

PROGRAMMABLE WINE

Van Mensvoort, Grievink, Daas

EXPRESSIVE

PLEASURE

INDIVIDUALISTIC

MEDICINES IN FOOD

INTRODUCES SMELL IN THE DIGITAL DOMAIN

PLEASURE

SOCIAL

PURPOSE

GENERATE ELECTRICITY FROM YOUR BELLY FAT

SOCIAL

PROGRESSIVE

PURPOSE

SHARE YOUR HEALTHY LIFESTYLE WITH YOUR SOCIAL NETWORK

EXPRESSIVE

PLEASURE

INDIVIDUALISTIC

TwitterImplant Run -1000 cal. #discount

TwitterImplant Nicotine +1 mg #penalty

ECO FRIENDLY LAMP POWERED BY ALGAE

SOCIAL

CONSERVATIVE

PURPOSE

EGGSHELL SHOWS THE HEALTH OF THE CHICKEN

SOCIAL

PURPOSE

PROGRESSIVE

GROW YOUR OWN SNEAKER WITH BIO CUSTOMIZATION

INDIVIDUAL

PROGRESSIVE

PLEASURE

GROW YOUR OWN AT WWW.RAYFISH.COM

http://WWW.RAYFISH.COM

SOCIAL

INDIVIDUAL

PURP

OSE PLEASURE

CALL FORPRODUCTS

WELCOME

ABOUT

PROGRESSIVE PLEASUREEXPRESSIVE

TECHNO UTOPIST

CONSERVATIVE PURPOSESOCIAL

GREEN GUARDIAN

EXPRESSIVE PLEASUREINDIVIDUAL

EMOTIONAL SHOPPER

WWW.NANOSUPERMARKET.ORG

THE PRODUCTS ARE FICTIONAL, THE DEBATE IS FACTWWW.NANOSUPERMARKET.ORG

GEOSPHEREBIOSPHERE TECHNOSPHERETHE PLANET

EVOLUTION GOES ON

FOOD TECHNOLOGY

DINOSAUR LEG

SABERTOOTH FILET

THE MEAT OF TODAY

100 % Made from an Animal 100 % Unrecognizable

THE MEAT OF TOMORROW?

HOME MEAT INCUBATOR - DANIEL ONG, TU/e ID NEXT NATURE LAB

IN VITRO MEAT: TU/e BMT

2013€ 250.000,—

WORLDS FIRST LAB GROWN BURGER

PROF. MARK POST, AUGUST 2013

HORSELESS CARRIAGE

MAG HET IETS CREATIEVER DAN EEN HAMBURGER

ALSTUBLIEFT?

EXPLORE THE IN VITRO MEAT CREATIVE POTENTIAL

OUR PROJECT

THE IN V I TRO

MEAT COOKBOOK

THE IN VITRO MEAT COOKBOOK 45 RECIPES YOU CANNOT COOK YET.

www.bistro-invitro.com

http://www.nextnature.net

KNITTED MEAT

F IRST APPL I -CAT ION

NEXTNATURE STUDIO REGENERATED FASTFOOD

DODO NUGGETS

MEAT FRUIT

VEGE MORPH-

ISM

NEXT NATURE STUDIO

MEAT FLOWEMEAT FLOWER

LAB PEARLS

HONEST FROM

THELAB

HONEST FROM THE LAB - NEXTNATURE STUDIO

HONEST FROM THE LAB - NEXTNATURE STUDIO

TRANSPARENT SASHIMI

3D PR INTED LAB MARROW BONE

RUST IC IN V I TRO

NEW AUTHEN

T IC

SATISFIES YOUR INNER CAVEMAN - NEXTNATURE STUDIO

BONE UTENS ILS

MEAT OYSTER

IN—VITRO—ME

GROW MEAT ON YOUR OWN BODY – CHLOÉ RUTZERVELD

BORN AND MADE

ARE FUSING

NATURE AND CULTURE

ARE FUSING

NATURE AND CULTURE

ARE SHIFTING

BORN MADE

BORN MADE

AUTONOMOUS

CONTROLLED

BEYOND CONTROLCONTROLLED

BORN MADE

BORN


MADE

Old view: Everything that is Born

MADE


BORN

New view on Nature: Everything Beyond Control

CONTROLLED

BORN MADE

BEYOND CONTROL


CONTROLLED

BORN MADE

NATURE CAUSED BY

PEOPLE

BEYOND CONTROL



BORN MADE

NATURE CAUSED BY

PEOPLE

TECHNOLOGY BECOMES NATURE

ELECTRIC LIGHT

YOUR GRAND-GRAND-PARENTS NEW MEDIA

AGRICULTURE

10.000 YEARS AGO THIS WAS A TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION

COOKING

200.000 YEARS AGO, THIS WAS A TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION

3 MLN YEARS BC

300.000 BC

19.000 BC

4.000 BC

3.000 BC

600 BC

1850 DC

3 MLN YEARS BC 300.000 BC

19.000 BC

3.000 BC

600 BC

TODAY

4.000 BC 1850 DC

HUMANS ARE TECHNOLOGICAL BY NATURE

HUMANS ARE TECHNOLOGICAL BY NATURE

NATURE CHANGESALONG WITH US

Is this evolution?

Is this biodiversity?

A FLOCK OF VISAS – IMAGE: BRUCE MAU

Is this an ecosystem?

Is this architecture?

ROOT BRIDGES in INDIA

Is this a natural phenomenon?

PYRAMID OF TECHNOLOGY

PHYSICAL NEEDS

SAFETY & SECURITY

SOCIAL CONTACT

ESTEEM

SELF

INSPIRATION: MASLOW HIERARCHY OF HUMAN NEEDSABRAHAM MASLOW, 1943

http://WWW.NEXTNATURE.NET

PYRAMID OF TECHNOLOGYSEVEN LEVELS AT WHICH TECHNOLOGY CAN OPERATE

1. ENVISIONEDIDEA EXISTS IN THE HUMAN MIND

ENVISIONED

OPERATIONAL

ENVISIONEDOPERATIONAL

2. OPERATIONALWORKING PROTOTYPE EXISTS

ENVISIONED

APPLIEDOPERATIONAL

3. APPLIEDAVAILABLE & AFFORDABLE


ACCEPTED

4. ACCEPTEDPART OF EVERYDAY LIFE

APPLIED

ENVISIONED

VITAL

OPERATIONAL

5. VITALHARD TO LIVE WITHOUT

APPLIEDACCEPTED

VITAL


6. INVISIBLENOT EXPERIENCED AS TECHNOLOGY

INVISIBLE

APPLIEDACCEPTED

VITAL


PYRAMID OF TECHNOLOGYWHAT’S AT THE SUMMIT?

INVISIBLE

APPLIEDACCEPTED

?

VITAL


NATURALISED

APPLIED

7. NATURALIZEDINDISTINGUISHABLE FROM NATURE

ACCEPTED

INVISIBLE

NATURALISED

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ENVISIONEDENVISIONEDOPERATIONAL

1. ENVISIONEDArtists, Science Fiction Writers

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ENVISIONEDOPERATIONALOPERATIONAL

2. OPERATIONALInventors, Principle Scientists

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APPLIED

3. APPLIEDEntrepreneurs, Engineers

ACCEPTED

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4. ACCEPTEDDesigners, User Experts, Marketeers

APPLIED

INVISIBLE

NATURALISED

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VITAL?

5. VITALPolicy makers?

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6. INVISIBLEVacancy?

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7. NATURALISEDVacancy?

APPLIEDACCEPTED

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APPLIEDACCEPTED

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SUMMIT PYRAMID IS NOT UNDERSTOOD AS TECHNOLOGY

– ALAN KAY

TECHNOLOGY IS ANYTHING THAT WAS INVENTED AFTER YOU WERE BORN

– DANNY HILLS

TECHNOLOGY IS ANYTHING THAT DOES NOT QUITE WORK YET.

NATURALISED

INVISIBLE

VITAL


APPLIED

WHY SETTLE FOR PARTIAL SOLUTIONS?We should carry technology to its full potential

ACCEPTED


FORWARD TO NATURE!

GEOSPHERE BIOSPHERE TECHNOSPHERE

GEOSPHEREBIOSPHEREOUR PLANET

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