Hendrik Jan Grievink

Hendrik-Jan Grievink is a conceptual artist, visionary designer, and inspiring speaker. He uses art and design as sensory and imaginative tools to weave ecology, technology, and care back together — in our bodies, our systems, and our worldview.

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Keynote spreker,Workshop / Masterclass

About Hendrik Jan Grievink

In his work, he creates tangible experiences that invite different ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. He stimulates a renewed, conscious resonance — between people, with the planet, and all that lives.

His mission: to make the invisible visible and the abstract tangible — so that new imaginations of the future can become reality.

Hendrik-Jan’s talks are more than stories — they are immersive experiences. Visually powerful, built around inspiring diagrams and images that resonate, and enhanced by multimedia such as images, video, and sound. His open, inviting, and humorous style creates space for genuine interaction: he actively engages his audience and allows the story to organically flow with the energy of the moment.

In collaboration with the Next Nature Network, Hendrik-Jan has been working since 2010 on projects that explore the relationship between humans, nature, and technology. He was a co-initiator of the In Vitro Meat Cookbook, which explores the creative potential of cultured meat through 45 speculative recipes. He conceived the Pyramid of Technology, a conceptual model that shows how technology becomes ‘nature’ in seven steps.

Technology is not only a force for progress but also an opportunity to reconnect — with each other, with the planet, and with all that lives.

Together with Máxima MC, he developed a model for an artificial womb and created Reprodutopia: a retro-futuristic fertility clinic and living lab where visitors engage in discussions about the future of reproduction and family. With Check Your Technoprivilege, he mapped technology and power across five dimensions, resulting in a practical Technology Privilege Checklist. Since 2023, he has been a fellow at Next Nature.

His current work explores how indigenous worldviews and ecological awareness can form the basis for a regenerative and connected future where technology no longer alienates but reconnects.

Specialist Subjects

Using five dimensions, Hendrik-Jan explores how access to technology contributes to social and ecological injustice. The Technology Privilege Checklist offers practical tools for ethical innovation and a more equitable technological environment.

How do we design technology that enhances empathy, regeneration, and inclusivity? Hendrik-Jan investigates how human innovation becomes part of the ‘web of life’ (our Next Nature) in a way that contributes to a future for all life on earth.

Technology as a source of awareness: Hendrik-Jan introduces Deep Tools — concepts and experiences that help us live and create more consciously and regeneratively.

What can we learn from indigenous wisdom and ecological thinking to reshape technology? An exploration of regenerative innovation.

How do we create space for radically new futures? Hendrik-Jan demonstrates through his own work how design can be used to make social change tangible and conceivable.

An enlightening model that shows how technology evolves in seven steps from an abstract idea to something fully integrated with the ‘web of life’, transforming ourselves — as human beings — to a new phase in our evolution.

We are what we eat. But what if food no longer grows in the soil, but is designed in the lab? On the ethics, creativity, and cultural shifts surrounding alternative food production.

How technological and cultural innovations change our ideas about care, well-being, and human connection — and what new questions that raises.

How to dream, build, and live in a world where biology and technology merge and integrate into the ecosystem of our planet? Often in combination with Speculative Design and World Building, Food Futures, Futures of Care (or Futures of X) and/or Pyramid of Technology.

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