Surprised by the level of smog he experienced in Beijing, Daan Roosegaarde set a goal to create clean parks in Beijing. To achieve this Studio Roosegaarde has been working on an electronic vacuum cleaner to remove smog particles from the sky. To raise aditional awareness for the smog problem the collected dust will be used to create two types of ‘smog’ rings. The regular type will contain a milimeter cube of compressed dust, created with a hand-operated press, which symbolizes the cubic kilometer of smog that has been cleared to create it. The dust used for the limited edition version will be compressed enough to turn into something very similar to a diamond while still retaining some of it’s characteristic pigment. As Roosegaarde puts it: when buying a ring, “you are buying a cubic kilometer of clean Beijing air”. More info at Studio Roosegaarde.
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