Design Museum Den Bosch
s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

The exhibition Design for the Planet presents a design history of the phenomenon of geoengineering. This is the first time that the theme has been addressed in this way in a design museum. From colonial plans to green the Sahara, via the fear of hurricanes as a weapon of war in the Cold War, to current plans to extract CO 2 from the air or to cool the earth with enormous sunshades in space. Such projects often prove to be impracticable or entail enormous risks, while their effectiveness is far from certain. Who has the right to put such plans into practice? Who bears the possible consequences? And what do these debates say about the expectations we have of engineers, scientists and designers?

Full exhibition details here: designmuseum.nl/tentoonstelling/design-voor-de-planeet