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Soil, land, 'up to'

Tech From Here: NL · Dutch Design Week 2026

The work this post covers and every source it draws on, each linked to the original.

The workAeropod by Muju Earth (Lu Afolayan, Ocean Hu), Secrid Talent Podium 2026 (Secrid Impact Fund), Klokgebouw (B4), Strijp-S. Dutch Design Week 2026 ddw.nl

Other sources

  1. UNCCD press release, Desertification and Drought Day 2024: United for Land unccd.int
  2. UN News, FAO warns 90 per cent of Earth's topsoil at risk by 2050 (27 Jul 2022) news.un.org
  3. Dutch Design Week programme: Secrid Talent Podium ddw.nl
  4. Secrid, Impact Fund secrid.com
  5. Capsule can bring healthier resilient soil in a sustainable package (yankodesign.com) yankodesign.com
  6. Soil tech solutions target compaction and green farm energy (fwi.co.uk) fwi.co.uk
  7. prototypesforhumanity.com/prototypes/aeropod prototypesforhumanity.com

Images, slide by slide

Slide 1
A sign reading 40% of global soils are degradedPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 2
A sign reading 40% of global soils are degradedPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 3
Diagram comparing two grids of 100 squaresImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against UNCCD press release, Desertification and Drought Day 2024 (): up to 40 percent of the world's land is degraded; UN News, 27 July 2022 (): FAO warned 90 percent of Earth's topsoil could be at risk by 2050 (source line drawn on the graphic)Museum or journal record
Slide 4
Diagram comparing two grids of 100 squares, this time with the right grid highlighted: 90 hatched squares for the share of Earth's topsoil that FAO said could be at risk by 2050, at risk and not already degradedImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against UNCCD press release, Desertification and Drought Day 2024 (): up to 40 percent of the world's land is degraded; UN News, 27 July 2022 (): FAO warned 90 percent of Earth's topsoil could be at risk by 2050 (source line drawn on the graphic)Museum or journal record
Slide 5
Wide view of a large industrial exhibition hall: a round pavilion of hanging white curtains with red stands, and a guide gesturing to a press group in front of itPhoto: RN Collins
Slide 6
Close view of the black sign on its red frame at the Aeropod stand, reading 40% of global soils are degradedPhoto: RN Collins
Ring frame
Teleprinters in a telex room, NS head office III, Utrecht (1960)Frame: NS, CC0, croppedMuseum or journal record
Quotes and video
The pitch quoted in this post, from RN's video at the Secrid Talent PodiumRN's own footage, 17 Oct 2026, Klokgebouw, Strijp-S, Eindhoven

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