Marjan van Aubel (born in 1985) is a Dutch solar designer based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
[1]Van Aubel graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy with a BA DesignLAB in 2009, and in 2012 gained an MA in Design Products from the Royal College of Art in London.
[7] 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;[8] at night they power a chandelier.
[14] In collaboration with V8 Architects she created a solar panel skylight for the Netherlands' pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020 which won the Public Award.
[15][16] In 2022, she founded the Solar Biennale at the Het Nieuwe Instituut with Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen.