Marjan van Aubel

Marjan van Aubel

Marjan van Aubel is a world renowned solar designer. Ever since her graduation from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 2012, her Studio designs for a positive future. Through different product innovations, immersive light installations, and poetic solar artwork. Working on a new narrative by combining the fields of sustainability, design and technology to promote the development of solar in general.

Recent installations and designs have been exhibited at London Design Festival ’24, Salone del Mobile ’24 (Design Week Milan), Design Miami ’23, and Dutch Design Week ’25. Her artworks are, amongst others, part of the permanent collections of MoMa (NYC), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Vitra Design Museum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and Victoria & Albert Museum.

One of her award-winning designs is Sunne, a self-powered solar light that brings the sun indoors. Her book Solar Futures, published in 2022, gives a look at the past, present and future of solar energy. Marjan co-founded the Solar Biennale as well as The Solar Movement. She also designed the roof of the pavilion for the World Expo (Dubai) and the pavilion for the Dutch Design Week.

Marjan is an inspirational speaker on the topics of design, solar design, technology, innovation, and sustainability. She talks about a positive future, a new narrative, and her work as a designer, as well as her role as an ambassador within the field of solar design. With her Studio, she is working hard to embed solar energy into our daily lives, using the power, poetics and beauty of design.

Marjan van Aubel did a great talk at see-Conference #14. It was both personal, showing her path and experiments, but also visionary, as she addressed global issues of climate change and how design and technology can drive positive change. She is very sympathetic and open-minded, yet determined, a trait that we look for in our speakers.
—Peter Post, see-Conference (Wiesbaden)

The Sun, My Heart by Marjan van Aubel Studio

Dubai World Expo – Dutch Pavilion – Marjan van Aubel Studio

Sunne by Marjan van Aubel Studio