Next Nature

Back to work! Or maybe not quite? 🤖 While smart systems take over more of our tasks, we wonder: what will your work week look like in 10 years? Will work be a choice or a memory? Make a statement in your next meeting with our 'Never Work Again' shirt. Available in navy and white. 👕⚡

https://nextnature.org/en/shop/products/shirt-never-work-again-blauw

OPEN CALL: What will care, wellbeing, and healthcare look like in a constantly changing world? 🩺🏥

We invite artists, designers, thinkers, and creators to imagine new perspectives. Do you have a thought-provoking idea or project proposal? Share it with us for a chance to be featured in our exhibition.

👉See link in bio to view the Open Call and submit your project!

When robots start meditating🧘

Two robots, each with their own character, create endless patterns in the sand. Artist and fellow Heleen Blanken is the creator behind Singularity Garden, our special Zen garden where robotic arms follow the patterns of AI. The project asks a simple but penetrating question: Is this peace or control?

More about Singularity Garden: https://nextnature.org/en/magazine/story/2025/singularitygarden

When AI becomes culture🤖

As one of the most influential thinkers in the field of digital culture, media theory, digital art, and AI, Lev Manovich has been researching for decades how software, data, and artificial intelligence shape our culture. We speak with Manovich about AI, art, and the future of it all.

Read our interview with Lev Manovich:
https://nextnature.org/en/magazine/story/2025/lev-manovich-when-ai-becomes-culture

The architecture of our planet🌎

More than 650 people have traveled to space, but no one has ever reached the Earth's core. And yet, a fascinating world lies hidden right beneath our feet. With our new GEO lift, you travel to the center of the Earth. Through layers of heat and rock. You pass through the Earth's crust, the mantle. Do you dare to descend?

See you in the future in the ✨

Imagine: a soft, flexible gill worn like a piece of jewelry. Philippa Beale’s Human Gills demonstrate how humanity and technology can merge to survive underwater.

Discover the Human Gills at the Next Nature Museum or read more here: https://nextnature.org/en/mission/projects/human-gills

Magdalena Salinas transforms waste salt into stunning 3D-printed houses. A clever solution for a warming world in need of new materials.🧂

Read more about salt castles here: https://nextnature.org/en/magazine/story/2025/salt-castles

Design is more than just making beautiful things. Dagan Cohen, founder of Changery, explains how we can use 'stories from the future' to truly change the world today.

Explore the world of Design Fiction here: https://nextnature.org/en/magazine/story/2025/prototyping-van-gewenste-toekomsten-fictie-als-ontwerpdiscipline

Upgrade your body: Why not adjust the menu to your stomach?

Why stop at changing our food? Chloé Rutzerveld explores whether we should be adapting our own bodies instead. Imagine an extra stomach or DNA that produces its own vitamins. Discover Human 2.0 here: https://nextnature.org/en/magazine/story/2025/de-mens-2-0

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Once upon a time… there was Earth. 🌍✨. Not a fairy tale, but the true beginning. A glowing sphere spinning through the black universe. Layer upon layer, always in motion. For billions of years, it created itself. There was no plan, no design, but it did come into being. And somewhere in that process of creation, humanity stepped aboard.

Read the article by Mieke Gerritzen and look at the planet beneath your feet with a fresh perspective: https://nextnature.org/en/magazine/story/2025/er-was-eens-de-aarde

Or would you like to learn even more about the Earth? Then visit the Next Natue Museum. From February 27th, you can experience the new exhibition 'Once Upon a Time... the Earth'.