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Founder of Next Nature concept and Network
Creator of NANO Supermarket and related futuristic projects
Author of "Next Nature: Nature changes along with us"
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He has previously worked as a researcher, teacher, and Visionary in Residence at various institutions.
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He also serves as Next Nature Fellow at Eindhoven University of Technology and is a member of the Society of Arts at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Earlier in his career, Van Mensvoort worked as a researcher at the Center for User-System Interaction (1998–2003), taught at the Sandberg Institute (2002–2006), served on the supervisory board of VPRO broadcasting (2015–2021), and was Visionary in Residence at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena (2008).
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Most of his multi-media projects are concerned with how technology becomes so omnipresent, intricate and uncontrollable we start to perceive it as a nature of its own.He uses various media to express his philosophy, including the NANO Supermarket, which showcases potential nano-technology products, and the book "Next Nature: Nature changes along with us." Van Mensvoort is the director of the Next Nature Network, a nature organization focused on the future. Notable projects
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In 2008 he was Visionary in Residence at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. His work has been featured in international media such as The Guardian, Wired, Fast Company, and Huffington Post, as well as on television programs including ABC News, VPRO Tegenlicht, RTL Koffietijd, NOS News, FOX News, and Klokhuis.
The Woods Smell of Shampoo, exploring the intimate role media play in our society: how the media have become fundamentally part of the cycle through which we create meaning and it effectively becomes impossible to distinguish media from reality.
Van Mensvoort has co-authored numerous books and publications.
His work explores how humans and technology are evolving together, with the aim to find a future that benefits both people and the planet.
Van Mensvoort began his career in the late 1980s creating video games, as part of the first generation of digital natives who are now no longer kids. The book examines people’s notion of nature and how the image of nature as static, balanced and harmonic is naive and up for reconsideration.
The Woods Smell of Shampoo; the Fake for Real memory game; the fictional bio-design company Rayfish.com, which sparked global debate about biotechnology; Bistro In Vitro, a speculative restaurant exploring the future of lab-grown meat; and the VR Time Machine, an immersive experience that lets users fly while journeying into the distant future through virtual reality.
Van Mensvoort is the author of several books, including Next Nature: Why Technology is our Natural Future, Save the Humans, Pyramid of Technology, What You See Is What You Feel, Natuur 2.0, and The In Vitro Meat Cookbook—the world’s first cookbook on lab-grown meat and its cultural implications.
He is a sought-after speaker and has given over 400 lectures around the world.
He currently resides in Amsterdam.
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Van Mensvoort is the head of the Next Nature Lab at the Industrial Design Department of the Eindhoven University of Technology, a position he has held since 2003.
He aims to understand our relationship with technology and create a future that benefits both humans and the planet. Van Mensvoort began his career in video games in the late 1980s and has since studied computer science, philosophy, and art. He has received degrees from Eindhoven University of Technology and the Sandberg Institute Masters of Rietveld Academy Amsterdam.
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Van Mensvoort is the founder and director of Next Nature, a 21st-century nature organization that aims to go forward—not back—to nature.