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Marijn van der Poll founded his multidisciplinary design studio in 2000. His work has been shown in museums around the world including the Victoria&Albert Museum in London and is part of the collections of amongst others the San Francisco MOMA. Marijn is an ambassador of the internationally renowned Dutch Design Week. He is a guest lecturer at the Design Academy Eindhoven. He holds a BA in Industrial Design from the Design Academy and a MSc from the University of Nebraska. He is an ambassador of the Dutch Design Week. His corporate clients include research institute Imec, office furniture maker Ahrend and aircraft supplier Fokker Technologies. Marijn is a strategic advisor to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Watermanagement with where he helped found the fieldlab for the future, Nieuw Zwanenburg, a machineshop for societal challenges on a seventeeth century farm with ten acres of land cultivating biobased building materials. His first book Right-brainier is a survival handbook focussing on the periodic element of all abstract thinking, the idea.
2023- now NIEUW ZWANENBURG: werkatelier voor de toekomst
In 2023 we were handed the task of conducting a reconnaissance mission into the desirability of an in-between space to work on societal challenges. This resulted in us helping to found the first fieldlab for the future, Nieuw Zwanenburg. At Nieuw Zwanenburg we work as a collective. Our joint mission: growing and developing bio-based building materials for use in infrastructure with respect for soil, water and air. Five different disciplines are involved. Entrepreneurs, Academics and students, Designers, Government professionals and local Experts working together on the intersection of design, technology and material science within a circular, regenerative bio system, taking into account the social, ecological and economic consequences. Nieuw Zwanenburg has two value streams: 1) to further the implementation of bio based building materials in infrastructure and the built environment and 2) to develop the fieldlab for the future as a scalable ecosystem to be applied to other societal challenges.
Partners include the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management as well as the Technical University Eindhoven and ASML x Brabant C.
Marijn is co-founder and Guildsman at Nieuw Zwanenburg
Marijn speaking at de Spreker about the language of ideas and his book RIGHTBRAINER. His view on creative thinking is that it is not a mystical talent but a common and basic skill like Emglish or Maths. What we are lacking is some basic grammar to structure our thoughts and to share them with others. Marijn taught at the leading design institute the Design Academy Eindhoven but also worked with professionals at the smartest square kilometre in the world, the High Tech Campus giving both the same assignment. The results, the same original, poetic and feasible ideas on both sides of the spectrum- creative and so called non-creative.
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Eindhoven, Netherlands
