Dutch Designer Uses “Light Recipes” To Inspire Sustainable Plant Growth


The Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde is well-known for his reality-bending art installations that give you a view of the world from a better place. This artist cum innovator’s studio is in Rotterdam. His art tends to combine cutting-edge science with acute observations about society. This results in projects such as Roosegaarde’s latest installation titled Grow.

My Modern Met/Daan Roosegaarde

With the use of high-density LED lights in red and blue hues, the project Grow turns a 20,000 square-meter field of leek into a futuristic landscape. It has been created as part of an artist-in-residence program. It’s being financed by Rabobank, and the installation aims to highlight the importance of agriculture and scientific developments that encourage fruitful crops.

My Modern Met/Daan Roosegaarde

The installation Grow uses red and blue LED lights to make dancing patterns on a leek field.

My Modern Met/Daan Roosegaarde

For Roosegaarde, light is an important medium of life and communication, especially for plant growth.

My Modern Met/Daan Roosegaarde

Growth – My Modern Met/Daan Roosegaarde

My Modern Met/Daan Roosegaarde

Growth – My Modern Met/Daan Roosegaarde

My Modern Met/Daan Roosegaarde

My Modern Met/Daan Roosegaarde

These LED lights are not only enchanting but also inspire better health in plants. These “light recipes” are supposed to trigger bio-responses.

Growth – My Modern Met/Daan Roosegaarde

My Modern Met/Daan Roosegaarde

The project Grow is meant to travel the world and visit fields to raise awareness and connectivity with nature in order to make plantations more sustainable.

The plant growth’s sensitivity to light is shown here on the McCree curve, which charts the plant’s response to different lightwave lengths.

Growth – My Modern Met/Daan Roosegaarde

My Modern Met/Daan Roosegaarde

Watch “Grow the Movie”, and lose yourself in the beautiful light.

In order to learn more about Grow and the other upcoming installations from designer Daan Roosegaarde, check out their website and Instagram.

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