Marjan van Aubel is a Dutch solar designer known for work that asks a simple but radical question: why does solar energy have to be ugly? Through product innovations, immersive light installations, and architecture, her studio designs for a positive future. She is combining sustainability, design, and technology to make solar energy part of everyday life.

Her work is held in the permanent collections of MoMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the V&A in London, the Vitra Design Museum and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. She co-founded the Solar Biennale and is the author of “Solar Futures: How to Design a Post-Fossil World with the Sun”.