What will families look like in the future? Discover it in the exhibition Living Looonger in The Studio of NEMO Science Museum. An exhibition about growing older, staying young, living together and being mortal. Can be visited from January 19, 2024 to January 5, 2025.
The Living Looonger exhibition: how do you want to grow old? in The Studio of NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam shows the possibilities and consequences of a longer life. Over the past 150 years, human life expectancy has doubled.
Important questions
Living Looonger highlights a number of important questions surrounding aging. Can we put a stop to aging and perhaps even death through (future) developments in science? Or should we embrace our mortality by giving meaning to our lives instead of continuing to postpone death? And what can we do to grow old as vitally and full of life as possible?
In Living Looonger, visitors can investigate their biological age, experience hands-on which body parts can be replaced, think about the consequences for our society and reflect on our mortality. The exhibition also includes work by Nina Farkache (Come a little bit closer), Alexia Audrain (The Hugging Chair), Kuang-Yi Ku (Tiger Penis Project) and the short film Institute of Isolation by Lucy McRae.
Growing older and staying young
The average age in the Netherlands is 81.6 years, worldwide it is 72.8 years. Not everyone lives the same length of time: for example, the average life expectancy of people in low-income countries is lower than that in high-income countries. How you age is also not the same for everyone. Some people remain vital into old age, while others suffer from chronic conditions. People have always struggled against death. Living Looonger shows how this has been done over the past 150 years. Causes of death are shifting, we are becoming better at preventing, detecting and curing diseases in time. In the future, instead of curing diseases, we may be able to replace ‘sick’ parts of the body with something that works, or even combat aging itself. A healthy lifestyle can help add several years to your life. What does the future of aging look like? Will 90 be the new 60?
Living together
A population with increasingly older people has a major impact on society and how you organize your life course, because as you get older you have more ‘life time’. There are now twice as many people over 65 as in 1950. Moreover, an increasing proportion of those over 65 are over 80 years old. This means that as a society we have to think differently about, for example, pensions, the design of healthcare and the distribution of housing. Themes that are already urgent are examined in the exhibition and visitors are also asked how they see the future.
To be mortal
That the world will one day continue without us remains an unchangeable truth for now. But certainly not an easy truth. Can we give meaning to the course of our lives and ultimately accept death as something natural? And how is death dealt with in other places in the world? The short film can also be seen Reality doesn’t need me with interviews by spoken word artists Jörgen Gario, Sjaan Flikweert and Mirte Hartland.
About The Studio
The Studio of NEMO Science Museum is the additional location for adults on the Marineterrein in Amsterdam. It is a testing ground for experimenting with new program and interaction forms. NEMO wants to involve a broad target group of adults in social challenges related to science and technology.
More information: nemosciencemuseum.nl/destudio.
2024-01-13 23:04:11
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