Zoo of the Future

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Approach

Considering the implications of a new geological epoch, it is about time we review the way we look at animals. And what better place to look at animals than the zoo? By looking at human-nature relationships from a number of different perspectives we develop a number of (counter-) proposals for the non-human habitats in the contemporary zoo.

Timeline

Thijs de Zeeuw's challenge to design an enclosure for Artis Amsterdam Royal Zoo and Bart de Hartog's research Project "A Day at the Zoo" touched upon so many fundamental questions that ZOOOF was born.
Ever since, ZOOOF organised a symposium, talks, a publication and built up this online archive.

Coordinators:

We see the library-part of this website as an open platform. A visual think-tank, where everybody is invited to upload contents. It is clear that we don't own all of the copyrights of these images, and zooofthefuture.com should therefore never be mentioned as their respective source. If you feel your personal copyright is being violated by this website, please get in contact with one of our project coordinators.

The Zoo of the Future is a research project supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.
This website makes use of the typefaces "Whyte" and "Synt" by Dinamo, next to Helvetica.
Design and programming done by Kaj Lehmann.