Koert Van Mensvoort MSc, PhD

Koert van Mensvoort is a University Fellow of Next Nature at the Department of Industrial Design. He is the director of the Next Nature Network, board member of the Society of Arts at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and supervisory board member of VPRO television.

Van Mensvoort is an artist and philosopher best known for his work on the philosophical concept of Next Nature, which revolves around the idea that technology has become so complex, omnipresent and autonomous that it is best perceived as a nature of its own. Among his award-winning design-research projects are the In Vitro Meat Cookbook, the ECO Coin, the NANO Supermarket and the HUBOT job agency for people and robots. Van Mensvoort gave over 300 lectures on six different continents. His Letter to Humanity was translated into 26 languages.