Marjan van Aubel (born in 1985) is a Dutch solar designer based in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Education
Van Aubel graduated from the
Gerrit Rietveld Academy with a BA DesignLAB in 2009, and in 2012 gained an MA in Design Products from
the Royal College of Art
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in London.
Career and awards
Most of van Aubel's work involves incorporating solar cells into furniture, windows, and other objects. She has also designed a cover to maximize the surface area and thus the yield of a solar panel.
Her solar-powered table charger, ''Current Table'', was included in the 2015
Design Museum
The Design Museum in Kensington, London exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design. In 2018, the museum won the European Museum of the Year Award. The museum operates as a registered charity, and all funds generat ...
Designs of the Year exhibition in London. In 2016 she won the 2015 ''Radicale Vernieuwer'' (radical renewer) award from the Dutch newspaper ''
Vrij Nederland''
[ and also the Innovation in Product Design award at the first ''Wired'' Audi Innovation Awards, for ''Current Window'', a stained glass window incorporating dye-sensitized solar cells. In 2017 she was one of three winners of the Designer of the Future award sponsored by ]Swarovski
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The company is split into three major industry areas: the Swarovski Crystal ...
; tasked with using crystal, she incorporated portable solar cells within crystals to produce ''Cyanometer'', a set of three objects that store ambient light as they are carried around during the day and also include LED
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor Electronics, device that Light#Light sources, emits light when Electric current, current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron holes, releasing energy i ...
s to emulate the changing colors of the sky; at night they power a chandelier.[ Her solar-powered light, Sunne, won Wallpaper's Life Enhancer Of the Year Award in 2022 and Dezeen's Lighting Design of the Year in 2021.
Her ''Well Proven Stool'' (2014, with James Shaw) is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Vitra Design Museum. She was a participant in the 2016–2017 ''Dream Out Loud'' design exhibition at the ]Stedelijk Museum
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. in Amsterdam.
In 2018 she was invited to talk on 'The Beautiful Future of Solar Power' at a TED (conference) in Amsterdam. In collaboration with V8 Architects she created a solar panel skylight for the Netherlands' pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020 which won the Public Award.
In 2022, she founded the Solar Biennale at the Het Nieuwe Instituut
Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI, English: The New Institute) is a cultural centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It focuses on architecture, design, and digital culture. HNI is in a building designed by Jo Coenen at Museumpark 25 in the centre of Rott ...
with Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen
Pauline van Dongen (born 1986) is a Dutch fashion designer specialised in wearable technology.
Life
In 2010, van Dongen established her own design studio, Pauline van Dongen Studio. The studio, located in Arnhem (the Netherlands) has collabora ...
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Books
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References
External links
Official website
* March 22, 2019 TED (conference)
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Living people
Dutch designers
1980s births