Marjan van Aubel

Marjan van Aubel
Marjan van Aubel
Born	1985; Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Education	The Royal College of Art, The Gerrit Rietveld Academy
Occupation	Solar designer
Notable work	The Energy Collection, Well Proven Chair, Current Table, Current Window, Cyanometer, Sunne, Ra
Movement	Solar Movement
Awards	Life Enhancer of the Year award, Wallpaper* Design Awards, 2022, Sustainable Construction Project of the year, The Netherlands Pavilion, Expo, 2021, Lighting Design of the Year, Dezeen, 2021, Innovation Award, ARC21, 2021, Public Vote Design Award, Dezeen, 2021, ECO coin Award, Next Nature Network, 2020, Public Award, Dutch Design Award, 2019, Climate Action Challenge, What Design Can Do, 2018, Designer of the Future, Swarovksi, 2017, Product Innovation Award, WIRED Audi Innovation Awards, 2016, Radicale Vernieuwer (Radical Pioneer) by Neelie Kroes, 2016, Emerging Talent Medal, London Design Festival, 2015, ARC chair Award, 2014, First Prize Dutch Material Award, 2012
Website	www.marjanvanaubel.com

Marjan van Aubel (born in 1985) is a Dutch solar designer based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.^[1]

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 in London.^[2]

Career and awards

Most of van Aubel's work involves incorporating solar cells into furniture, windows, and other objects.^[3] She has also designed a cover to maximize the surface area and thus the yield of a solar panel.^[4]

Her solar-powered table charger, Current Table, was included in the 2015 Design Museum Designs of the Year exhibition in London.^[5]^[6] In 2016 she won the 2015 Radicale Vernieuwer (radical renewer) award from the Dutch newspaper Vrij Nederland^[2] 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.^[7] In 2017 she was one of three winners of the Designer of the Future award sponsored by Swarovski; 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 LEDs to emulate the changing colors of the sky;^[8] at night they power a chandelier.^[4] 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.^[9]^[10]

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.^[11]^[12] She was a participant in the 2016–2017 Dream Out Loud design exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.^[13]

In 2018 she was invited to talk on 'The Beautiful Future of Solar Power' at a TED (conference) in Amsterdam.^[14] 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.^[15]^[16]

In 2022, she founded the Solar Biennale at the Het Nieuwe Instituut with Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen.^[17]

Books

Aubel, Marjan van (2022). Solar Futures : How to Design a Post-Fossil World with the Sun. Prinsenbeek: Wilco Art Books. ISBN 978-94-92852-65-6. OCLC 1344291375.

References

^ MADLENER, ADRIAN (2 April 2022). "HOW MARJAN VAN AUBEL USES DESIGN TO MAKE SOLAR ENERGY MORE ACCESSIBLE". Frame magazine. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
^ ^a ^b van de Wiel, Clara (2016-02-10). "Marjan van Aubel is de winnaar van de Radicale Vernieuwers 2015". Vrij Nederland (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-07-10.
^ Ray, Debika (2015-01-10). "Hidden Power". Icon. 149: 38. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
^ ^a ^b Roux, Caroline (2017-06-15). "Design Miami/Basel 2017: review of the fair". Financial Times. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
^ Gompertz, Will (2015-03-24). "Nominations for Designs of the Year 2015 announced" (video, 1 minute 45 seconds). BBC News. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
^ McCloud, Grace (2015-03-25). "Designs of the Year 2015: what the past year of design has brought the world". Wallpaper. Retrieved 2017-07-14.
^ Manthorpe, Rowland. "DeepMind and OpenBionics among the winners at the WIRED Audi Innovation Awards". Wired UK. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
^ Aouf, Rima Sabina (2017-06-13). "Swarovski crystal 3D-printed, upcycled and made into gadgets by designers". Dezeen. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
^ "Winner: Lighting design of the year 2021". Dezeen. 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
^ "Solar light and modular cabin win Life-Enhancer of the Year: Wallpaper* Design Awards 2022". Wallpaper. 6 January 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
^ "Marjan van Aubel, James Shaw. Well Proven Stool. 2014". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
^ "Well Proven Chair". Vitra Design Museum.
^ "Dream out Loud - Designing for tomorrow's demands". Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
^ "The beautiful future of solar power". TED. 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
^ "Marjan van Aubel, winner of the 2019 Public Award, designed the solar roof for the Dutch pavilion on show during The World Expo in Dubai in 2020". Dutch Design Awards. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
^ "Marjan Van Aubel Adds Colourful Solar Panel To The Netherlands Pavilion At Expo 2020 Dubai". World Architecture. 8 October 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
^ Hahn, Jennifer (28 September 2021). "Inaugural Solar Biennale aims to mobilise designers around the "solar revolution"". Dezeen. Retrieved 3 September 2022.

External links

Official website
The beautiful future of solar power by Marjan van Aubel on YouTube March 22, 2019 TED (conference)

[1] MADLENER, ADRIAN (2 April 2022). "HOW MARJAN VAN AUBEL USES DESIGN TO MAKE SOLAR ENERGY MORE ACCESSIBLE". Frame magazine. Retrieved 3 September 2022.

[radical-2] van de Wiel, Clara (2016-02-10). "Marjan van Aubel is de winnaar van de Radicale Vernieuwers 2015". Vrij Nederland (in Dutch). Retrieved 2017-07-10.

[3] Ray, Debika (2015-01-10). "Hidden Power". Icon. 149: 38. Retrieved 2017-07-10.

[FT-4] Roux, Caroline (2017-06-15). "Design Miami/Basel 2017: review of the fair". Financial Times. Retrieved 2017-07-15.

[5] Gompertz, Will (2015-03-24). "Nominations for Designs of the Year 2015 announced" (video, 1 minute 45 seconds). BBC News. Retrieved 2017-07-10.

[6] McCloud, Grace (2015-03-25). "Designs of the Year 2015: what the past year of design has brought the world". Wallpaper. Retrieved 2017-07-14.

[7] Manthorpe, Rowland. "DeepMind and OpenBionics among the winners at the WIRED Audi Innovation Awards". Wired UK. Retrieved 2017-07-10.

[8] Aouf, Rima Sabina (2017-06-13). "Swarovski crystal 3D-printed, upcycled and made into gadgets by designers". Dezeen. Retrieved 2017-07-10.

[9] "Winner: Lighting design of the year 2021". Dezeen. 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2022.

[10] "Solar light and modular cabin win Life-Enhancer of the Year: Wallpaper* Design Awards 2022". Wallpaper. 6 January 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.

[11] "Marjan van Aubel, James Shaw. Well Proven Stool. 2014". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2017-07-10.

[12] "Well Proven Chair". Vitra Design Museum.

[13] "Dream out Loud - Designing for tomorrow's demands". Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2017-07-10.

[14] "The beautiful future of solar power". TED. 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2022.

[15] "Marjan van Aubel, winner of the 2019 Public Award, designed the solar roof for the Dutch pavilion on show during The World Expo in Dubai in 2020". Dutch Design Awards. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 3 September 2022.

[16] "Marjan Van Aubel Adds Colourful Solar Panel To The Netherlands Pavilion At Expo 2020 Dubai". World Architecture. 8 October 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2022.

[17] Hahn, Jennifer (28 September 2021). "Inaugural Solar Biennale aims to mobilise designers around the "solar revolution"". Dezeen. Retrieved 3 September 2022.

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