ERMI VAN OERS

BIODESIGN | ENERGY HARVERSTING | SUSTAINABILITY | MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS 

Ermi van Oers is the founder of Nova Innova, a creative studio which combines nature, science and design to create sustainable applications, based in Rotterdam. Ermi graduated cum laude at Willem de Kooning Academy in 2016, where she studied product design. During her studies, she fell in love with the subject Biodesign, where she saw the opportunity to change our artificial, polluting systems to sustainable, circular ones by integrating natural processes. Her  mission is to bring back the symbiosis between humans and nature through design. An example is the Living Light,  a lamp that works using the photosynthesis of a plant as an energy source and only can be switched on when you give the plant a gentle stroke. “Nature is full of smart solutions. As a designer I want to inspire people using the potential power within natural processes. I want to show the beautiful, poetic side of these living systems when they take their place in our everyday lives.”