Dubai: Marjan van Aubel takes her role as a designer seriously – tasked with building the future, she believes solar panels should not only generate energy but catch the eye too. In a unique integration of sustainability, technology and design, the award-winning Dutch solar designer adorns the Netherlands Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai with 60 organic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) solar panels.
“Sustainability is a core element. You have to rethink about what kind of material you are using and what impact it will have 10, 20, even 100 years from now,” says van Aubel, in an interview with Gulf News. The colourful panels seamlessly blend into the biotope theme of the pavilion under the banner of ‘Uniting water, energy and food’.
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- Martin Scorsese
‘‘Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.’’
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Akira Kurosawa
One is an American master and the maker of timeless Hollywood classics like ‘Taxi Driver’ or ‘Goodfellas,’ the other the Japanese auteur who is regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th century. The sense of respect and admiration for Ray, the man who was responsible for taking Indian cinema to the global audience, was one of the few factors they would have had in common.
It’s a pity that the Covid-19 pandemic, like so many other things in our lives, have deprived his family and Kolkata - his own city - from celebrating his 100th birth anniversary on Sunday (May 2). The fact that it’s also the day for counting of votes after a volatile, protracted assembly elections in West Bengal over March-April, means the opportunities for his retrospectives, appraisals in TV talk shows and what have you - will have