She/Her
is a french designer based in Belgium. She graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven, NL. Her practice is based on empirical and empathic research and often results in creating tools, methods or experiences, rather than ready-made solutions. In her work, she uses hacks and subversion in an attempt to shift our relationship with technology.
She also wonders what design can do to challenge our beliefs & habits in a finite, ecologically threatened world. She prefers to work with open-source resources, re-purposed materials, energy-aware approaches and DIY techniques. Previous projects take the form of websites, objects, instruments, publications & installations among others. She works as a designer with LOW←TECH MAGAZINE. Previously, she collaborated with Écume Studio (Nov 2022) and Onomatopee (May 2021).
Jobs
Also, she develops and designs websites on request, with an attention for their energy consumption. She is open for collaborations and job opportunities. CV on request.
Get in touch → via email at marie[at]verdeil(dot)net (PGP key supported), or follow updates in News or via instagram, are.na, linkedin, mastodon, github.
News
From 12-15 of October, Low-tech Magazine was invited by the Huis van de Toekomst (a Rotterdam-based neighborhood project focused on human power) to build a bike generator as part of their energy system. We ran an (open) workshop where participants helped us build the bike and hack DC appliances to be pedal powered. Low-tech Magazine's events, where I sometimes take part, can be found on their events page.
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Signal Theremin
The Signal Theremin is an electronic musical instrument allowing any player to hear and play with the Wi-Fi signal emitted by its phone. -
Open-source DIY Bike Trolley
How to build a simple bike trolley with repurposed material and hand tools to replace you car when going to the market? -
Plantenna 1.0
Can we use the Internet to rethink our relationship with non-human-centered places? Plantenna 1.0 is a proposal to use a webcam and webchat as a respectful, distant & less extractive way to care about nature. -
pressaletter.online
pressaletter.online is an experimental website that hosts a typography poster generator with a custom-made variable alphabet entirely developed from scratch with P5.js. -
What Pixels Hide
What are the limitations of digital images? This experimental website proposes to get under the pixels -
Offline portal for Low-tech Magazine
In collaboration with Kris de Decker. We built an "Off-line Portal" to present Low-tech magazine's critical ideas on degrowth and the climate crisis through images from the blog. -
Faire Cabane
In collaboration with Anna Mareschal de Charentenay, we explored the potential of tree-house building as a method to foster togetherness, (re)intergrate one's local environnement and think collaboratively. -
Summer Hut in garden
Using the resources of the garden and its surrounding properties, this hut was designed to be easily dismantled and rebuilt according to the season. -
Learn Now, Survive Later
The publication is the outcome of an extensive investigation into the Prepper subculture online. The book acts as a guide to prepping and navigating survival-centered forums, but also offers a critical yet empathic look at the radical practices and ideology advertised by the members. -
Urban Material Foraging Manifesto
In parallel with building a treehouse in Eindhoven, we started collecting and repurposing material from our local urban environment. This "foraging" practice resulted in a collaborative guide and manifesto for urban foraging. -
How to Build a Bike Generator?
This transformed exercise bike prototype can produce up to 100W/h of human power to charge a battery, power a printer or a soldering iron. It also invites users to reflect on the energy consumption of their household appliances. -
Panel Talk: The Cat in the Black-box
As technology becomes increasingly complex and entangled with our lives, there is a need to take a close look at what lies behind the abstracted concept of 'black box'.