Next Nature

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'.

How does life originate? 🌍✨ There are already many small pieces of the puzzle, but no big answer yet. In this story, astrobiologist Inge Loes ten Kate takes you through the most promising scenarios and shows why we need both science and imagination to move forward 🧬🔬

Read more here: https://nextnature.org/en/magazine/story/2025/het-ontstaan-van-leven-wetenschap-en-verbeelding

What is artificial today may be natural tomorrow. Technology is our Next Nature.🌱

Discover more about Next Nature in our online magazine or at our museum in Eindhoven.

Mars is more than data, graphs, models, and AI simulations. In Becoming Red Dust, Hung Lu Chan lets the red dust speak - as resident and narrator. A speculative invitation not to conquer Mars, but to connect with it. As an ecosystem to live with.⁠
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🪐Read more in our online magazine: https://nextnature.org/en/magazine/story/2025/becoming-red-dust
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📷️: ⁠Hung Lu Chan

Are you aware of technology’s impact on nature? 🌍🤖

Nowadays, our world is so interconnected that it’s hard to tell where nature ends and technology begins. Technology is our Next Nature.💫

Learn more in our online magazine at nextnature.net