Marjan van Aubel

Nacht van de Radicale Vernieuwing (44737558181) (cropped)


Education

Van Aubel earned a BA from the Rietveld Academy and an MA from the Royal College of Art.[1]

Career and awards

Most of van Aubel's work involves incorporating solar cells into furniture, windows, and other objects.[2] She has also designed a cover to maximize the surface area and thus the yield of a solar panel.[3]

Her solar-powered table charger, Current Table, was included in the 2015 Design Museum Designs of the Year exhibition in London.[4][5] In 2016 she won the 2015 Radicale Vernieuwer (radical renewer) award from the Dutch newspaper Vrij Nederland[1] 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.[6] 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;[7] at night they power a chandelier.[3]

Her Well Proven Stool (2014, with James Shaw) is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[8] She was a participant in the 2016–2017 Dream Out Loud design exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.[9]

References
  1. 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.
  2. Ray, Debika (2015-01-10). "Hidden Power". Icon. 149: 38. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  3. Roux, Caroline (2017-06-15). "Design Miami/Basel 2017: review of the fair". Financial Times. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  4. Gompertz, Will (2015-03-24). "Nominations for Designs of the Year 2015 announced". BBC news (video, 1 minute 45 seconds). Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  5. 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.
  6. Manthorpe, Rowland. "DeepMind and OpenBionics among the winners at the WIRED Audi Innovation Awards". Wired UK. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  7. Aouf, Rima Sabina (2017-06-13). "Swarovski crystal 3D-printed, upcycled and made into gadgets by designers". Dezeen. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  8. "Marjan van Aubel, James Shaw. Well Proven Stool. 2014". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  9. "Dream out Loud - Designing for tomorrow's demands". Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
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