Thijs Biersteker & Meriem Bouamrane: Bringing biodiversity to life

Thijs Biersteker creates interactive installations about the world’s most pressing issues today. In his work he seamlessly combines scientific research and new technologies to deliver an empowering experience that transforms topics like climate change, air pollution, ocean plastic and the anthropocene into tangible experiences that help people feel the facts and can travel the world to create awareness around these topics. Biersteker holds a teaching position at the Delft University of Technology (NL) and a Fellowship at the VU university in Amsterdam. He is also founder of Woven Studio, which works together with universities, scientists, research groups, museums and architects to communicate their scientific facts in an immersive way.

Meriem Bouamrane is an environmental economist, Chief of Section at UNESCO on research and policy on Biodiversity and Ecology in the Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences, Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme. She is also coordinator of the EuroMAB Network, the oldest and largest network of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (727 sites in 131 countries).

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📷 Thijs Biersteker, Wither, 2019. Courtesy of Daily Paper and the artist.

🎙 Production: Fondation Thalie. Programme coordinator: Stefano Vendramin. Music: Joseph Schiano di Lombo. Editing: Fabrizio d’Elia