Marjan van Aubel: The beautiful future of solar power
مريان فان أوبيل: المستقبل المشرق للطاقة الشمسية
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through the Austrian mountains.
النمساوية.
this beautiful, stone, remote hut,
الحجري النائي.
I get very enthusiastic.
أتحمس كثيرًا.
which is free and available,
المجاني والمتاح،
on a beautiful location,
في موقعه الجميل،
always have to be so ugly?
الشمسية قبيحة للغاية؟
and I'm a solar designer.
وأنا مصممة طاقة شمسية.
sustainability and technology.
والتقنية.
that expand in size
التي تتزايد في الحجم
that use the properties of colors
التي تستخدم خصائص الألوان
all over the world, such as MoMA.
مثل متحف الفن الحديث.
that something was missing.
بأن شيئًا ما مفقود.
called the "Solar Revolution,"
يسمى "ثورة الطاقة الشمسية"،
we receive enough sunlight
ما يكفي من ضوء الشمس
with enough electricity
I just want to focus on solar.
على الطاقة الشمسية.
solar panels more efficient and cheaper.
أرخص وأكفأ.
has dropped enormously.
started producing them on a large scale.
has increased a lot.
of 44.5 percent.
about the image of solar cells,
for the last 60 years.
على مدار الستين سنة الماضية.
just stacked onto something.
integrated into our environment.
بشكل أفضل.
problem of our time.
the government, the engineers --
-الحكومة والمهندسين-
things through design.
the crystal company.
onto a certain place.
لمكان معين.
to focus the light onto a solar panel,
على ألواح الطاقة الشمسية،
but using aesthetics.
with you in the light,
these chandeliers.
bringing the light indoors.
when I came across this technology
عندما صادفت هذه التقنية
on photosynthesis in plants.
converts light into sugar for plants,
إلى سكر للنباتات،
into electricity.
حتى داخل المباني.
have different efficiency,
on the color spectrum.
red is more efficient than blue.
a glass colored surface,
just used for esthetics,
على حصاد الكهرباء،
and is able to harvest electricity,
consists of these colored solar cells.
هذه الخلايا الشمسية الملونة.
through USB ports.
منفذ اليو اس بي.
it's always very important,
efficiency and aesthetics.
color for indoors.
the most asked question I get:
can I charge from this, then?"
شحنه بهذه؟"
complicated answer of like,
does it have enough light,
that read the light intensity of the room.
تقرأ كثافة ضوء الغرفة.
how much light it's getting,
الذي تحصل عليه،
because yesterday we installed a table
بالعاصمة أمستردام
a phone from this table.
من خلال هذه الطاولة.
the more energy you can harvest.
يمكنك حصادها.
in a gallery in London, in Soho,
في حي سوهو،
could come and charge their phones
just a window anymore.
بعد الآن.
as a little power station.
about how much I love solar,
للطاقة الشمسية،
more accessible and for everyone,
وللجميع،
that can afford a sustainable lifestyle?
نمط الحياة المستدامة؟
where we directly need it.
الذي نحتاج إليها فيه مباشرة.
amazing technologies out there.
I see every surface as an opportunity.
in the train through the Westland,
عبر ويستلاند،
with all the greenhouses.
تكثر فيها الدفيئات الزراعية.
with transparent solar glass?
بزجاج الطاقة الشمسية الصافي؟
I created Power Plant.
ابتكرت نبتة للطاقة.
والمهندسين،
that pumps around nutrified water,
التي تضخ المياه المغذية
to grow more yield per square meter.
على زيادة الانتاج في كل متر مربع.
coming from these colored LED lights
من مصابيح الإنارة الملونة هذه
will live in big cities,
في المدن الكبرى،
على الأسقف الخارجية
from the other side of the world,
من العالم،
on the location itself.
to build these in off-grid places --
في أماكن خارج التغطية،
to water, electricity --
model of the power plant,
يصل ارتفاعها إلى أربعة أمتار،
and experience how plants grow.
and for the plants.
all these modern technologies.
"But where are the solar panels?"
"ولكن أين ألواح الطاقة الشمسية؟"
design really works,
and you don't notice it.
where all the windows, curtains, walls,
والجدران،
on the place where we need it,
الذي نحتاجها فيه،
solar cells accessible for everyone.
متاحة للجميع.
close to the people with you,
من الناس،
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Marjan van Aubel - Solar designerMarjan van Aubel promotes extreme energy efficiency through intelligent design.
Why you should listen
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 -- such as Swarovski and ECN.TNO, the Dutch Energy Centre -- van Aubel works to promote extreme energy efficiency through intelligent design. From working with expandable materials to domestically integrating solar cells that mimic the process of photosynthesis in plants, she adds a double function to objects and puts them to work: a table is not just a table, but also a producer of electricity.
Van Aubel strives to redefine our current relationship with solar technology and accelerate its transition to ubiquity. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2012 and the Rietveld Academy DesignLAB in 2009, she has since exhibited at world-class institutions, including the V&A (London), the Design Museum (London) and the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam). Her work is also part of the permanent collection at the MoMA in New York, the Vitra Design Museum, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, The Montreal Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia.
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