She/Her
is a french designer based in Belgium. Since graduating from the Design Academy of Eindhoven (NL, 2022), she uses design to explain and challenge how we perceive, build and use technology. This practice is based on empirical (DIY) and empathic research, often resulting in creating tools, methods or experiences, rather than ready-made solutions.
Low-tech Magazine
Since 2021, she works at LOW←TECH MAGAZINE. She is responsible for the visual direction of the magazine, producing photos and illustrations, graphic design and maintaining the solar-powered website. Closely collaborating with Kris de Decker, she also builds low-tech prototypes, works on the manuals and co-hosts workshops.
Other jobs
As a freelancer, she builds custom minimal websites with an attention to their energy use. Other projects take the form of publications, objects, guides and installations. She has worked with design studios (Hella Jongerius, Ecume Studio) and took part in various exhibitions and events across Europe (Dutch Design Week, FabLab Barcelona, Fiber Festival).
/!\ Currently, Marie takes no new website comissions, at least until 2025. Feel free to reach out nonetheless for advice, recommendations or if you have a massive budget ;-)
Get in touch → via email at marie[at]verdeil(dot)net (PGP key supported), or follow updates in the News page or via instagram, are.na, linkedin, mastodon.
News
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In November I was invited by the Institut Francais NL for Minimal Circuit, a 3 day event focusing on "Permacomputing" in the context of videogames, arts and design. In a series of round-table, I presented my research on the materiality of technology—specifically Wi-Fi— and discussed using a playful approach to address the ecological impact of technology. Learn more
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www.specs.work
Website design and development for Brussels based architecture practice Specs. -
Cooking with the sun
Building a solar & human powered kitchen. -
Talk: Principles for a Low-tech Web
How to apply a low-tech approach when designing for the web? A list of guiding principles to think a web in a "gentler" future, within planetary limits. -
How To Build a Small Scale Energy System? (and more)
Illustrations, photography and documentation for Low-tech Magazine's DIY guides. -
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'. -
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. -
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. -
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? -
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. -
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. -
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. -
What Pixels Hide
What are the limitations of digital images? This experimental website proposes to get under the pixels -
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. -
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. -
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.