Solar Futures: how to design a post-fossil fuel world with the sun?
Sunday 22 January —
12:00
- 12:45
The Talks — Hall 7
Description
Solar design is much more than solar panels: designer Marjan van Aubel and curator Matylda Krzykowski work daily with solar design, explore its potential in architecture, fashion, mobility and product design. Author of the book ‘Solar Futures’, Marjan van Aubel shows us a new way forward while through The Energy Show and the Solar Biennale, the two creatives build up momentum and impact.
The future of Solar Design will be collective.
Nos partenaires : Material Bank
Participants
Marjan Van AubelSolar Designer & Founder/Curator - The Solar Biennale
Matylda KrzykowskiCurator - The Solar Biennale
Clara Le FortJournalist
Marjan Van Aubel
Solar Designer & Founder/Curator - The Solar Biennale
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.
Matylda Krzykowski
Curator - The Solar Biennale
Matylda Krzykowski has a transdisciplinary practice at the interface between design, art and architecture. She plans, designs, writes and talks about digital and physical space. Since 2021 she is Artistic Lead of CIVIC, a new social infrastructure and exhibition space at Academy of Art and Design in Basel, Switzerland. Recently she co-curated the exhibition Institution Building at CIVA Brussels (2021), designed You Don't Want Space, You Want to Fill it for Marsèll in Milan (2022) and curated The Energy Show - Sun, Solar and Human Power at Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam in context of the first Solar Biennale (2022).
Clara Le Fort
Journalist
A writer for French and international publications (Les Echos WE, Le Point, ELLE, ELLE DECO, Bllnr), Clara Le Fort deals with subjects related to luxury, innovation and sustainable development. She also works with brands on strategic matters, as a design director. In addition, she has authored five books, published by Gestalten, and has written the Louis Vuitton City Guide for Sydney, Istanbul, Copenhagen and Arles.