Marjan
van Aubel

An award-winning innovative solar design practice that brings solar energy into daily life.

The studio is creating lasting change through solar design, integrating solar power seamlessly into our environments such as in buildings and objects.

Most notable works are the Solar Roof of Netherlands Pavilion at the World Expo 2020 in Dubai, Sunne, Current Table and Power Plant.

 

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Marjan van Aubel Studio is an award-winning innovative solar design practice that brings solar energy into daily life. Designing for a positive future through combining the fields of sustainability, design and technology.

The studio is creating lasting change through solar design, integrating solar power seamlessly into our environments such as in buildings and objects. With the goal to make solar power more accessible for everyone. Most notable works are Sunne, Current Table, Power Plant and the roof of the Netherlands Pavilion at the World Expo 2020 in Dubai.

Marjan has collaborated with global brands such as Cos, Timberland, Swarovski with the aim of accelerating the global energy transition to solar. Graduating from the Royal College of Art (Design Products MA) in 2012 and the Rietveld Academy DesignLAB (BA) in 2009.

 

Permanent collection:

_ MoMA in New York

_ Victoria and Albert Museum in London

_ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

_ Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rein

_ Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam

_ The Montreal Museum of Art, Montreal

_ National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne

 

Awards: 

2022: Wallpaper Life Enhancer Of the Year Award

2021: Dezeen Lighting Design of the Year

2021: ARC21 Innovation Award

2021: Dezeen Public Vote Design Award

2020: ECO coin Award by Next Nature Network

2019: Dutch Design Award chosen by the Public

2018: Climate Action Challenge by What Design Can Do.

2017: Designer of the Future by Swarovksi

2016: WIRED’s Innovation Award, Wallpaper Design Award and Radicale Vernieuwer (Radical Pioneer) by Neelie Kroes.

2015: London Design festival Emerging Talent medal

2014: ARC chair Award

2012: First Prize Dutch Material Award.

 

 

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Oudeschans 35
1011 KT Amsterdam
The Netherlands

KvK 78273692

 

 

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Sunne

Solar Futures

The Solar Biennale

Studio Dialogue 3

Studio Dialogue 2

Studio Dialogue 1

Solar Democracy

Studio film Nieuwe Instituut

Caventou

Foam China

Foaming expanding porcelain.

Foaming volcanic rock

This is an impression of a research trip to the island of Stromboli by James Shaw and Marjan van Aubel.

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