Article: THRIVE: an expo in designing nature and growing technology
Publication: NEXT NATURE
Date: 2022-04-08
NEXT NATURE (HQ: Eindhoven, the Netherlands) is an international nature organization for anyone interested in the debate on our future – where biology and technology appear to be merging or even trading places.
We must no longer see ourselves as the anti-natural species that merely threatens and eliminates nature, but rather as catalysts of evolution. With our urge to design our environment we create a ‘next nature’ which is unpredictable as ever: wild software, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us!
Preserving nature is of great importance, but we must also dare to look ahead. Will we grow meat without slaughtering animals? Embrace the robot as a colleague? Earn ECO coins for sustainable actions? Will men have babies one day? We want to go forward – not back – to nature.