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25
Jul 2022

The Solar Blanket By Mireille Steinhage

The recent graduate of the Master Material Futures at Central Saint Martins in London, Mireille Steinhage has created the Solar Blanket, part of the People Power project, which aims to make renewable energy products more accessible and affordable. The project aims to support people to keep warm by alleviating some of the strains of soaring…
14
Feb 2022

Solarpunk, The Utopia We’ve Been Waiting For

Solarpunk is an artistic and cultural movement that, as the manifesto states, seeks to answer and embody the question “what does a sustainable civilization look like, and how can we get there?”  It's not only based on a punk aesthetic in which nature thrives on technological ruins, which has Art Nouveau and Hayao Miayzaki as…
19
May 2021

Portable Solar Distiller, Lexus Design Award 2021

Launched in 2013, the Lexus Design Award is an international competition for emerging creators from around the world. The winner of the 2021 edition is Henry Glogau with the Portable Solar Distiller project. Henry is a young New Zealander designer, recently graduated from the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. His project was selected among the…
12
Mar 2021

Sunne, The Self-powered Solar Light, M. Van Aubel

Marjan van Aubel is an award-winning solar designer whose innovative practice spans the fields of sustainability, design, and technology. In collaboration with scientists, engineers, and institutions, she works to promote extreme energy efficiency through intelligent design. From working with expandable materials to domestically integrating solar cells, through her works the designer tries to redefine our…
09
Jun 2020

The Solar Project

Led by Moisés Hernández, the Solar project saw six students from the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) develop six different lamps made from waste materials found in rural Mexico, such as wicker, coconut bark and the maguey pulquero (Agave salmiana) plant. Using solar cells and LED technology, the lamps propose a sustainable solution to the…