NATHAN POTTIER
Helsinki | Paris

Data | Design | Environmental Science | Communication | Empowerment
Key to my values and work ethic, I believe that our environmental crisis is made too complex and inacessible.

Clear, evidential and engaging approaches through design and technological advances are a solution to bring forward narratives to act.
 
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P001 → The Carbon Box

How do we communicate climate science through engaging and accesible mediums? Through research and design, the carbon box translates national CO₂ trends into an interactive data physicalisation.

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Research Thesis & Project

Visualising Knowledge Conference

Aalto University
[FI]

2024-2025




P002 → Woven Studio & Thijs Biersteker

From prototyping, production, assembly & disassembly, data retrieval and analysis, to strategic development, my time as an intern and collaborator for Woven Studio and Thijs Biersteker offered a window into the world of ecological art through technology.  

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Internship & Research collaboration

Woven Studio
[NL]

2022 & 2024





P003 -> The A-Frame

Revitalising a communal experimental outdoors lab \Test Site/ through an A to Z project led by a handful of students. From grant submission to final inauguration the A-frame project engaged an interdisciplinary and sustainable approach.

Read moreGrassroot Project 

Project Coordinator

Aalto University
[FI]

2024






P004 ->  Nurdle Soup

Nurdle Soup fills an unmet need in environmental sensing; understanding the scale of microplastic leakage. By using self-developed, instantaneous, and intelligent detection technology we strived to offer reliable data to deal with this multi-ton issue.


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Team manager & Designer

TU/e
[NL]

2020-2022







P005 -> Aura

Air quality affects us universally, yet the tools remain either at a policy level or through technocratic solutions. How does one provide agency to tackle an invisible threat? Aura explores how design and data visualisation provide information to act on a communal scale .

Read moreGraduation Project

Community initiative

TU/e 
[NL]

2021







P006 -> Product Development w/ KONE

Urban mobility actors must re-consider their sustainability strategies. Partnering with KONE, this twofold project gave strategic insights on circular economy models and a design solution to give a second life to discarded elevator cables.

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Development Lead

Product Circularity

Aalto University
[FI]

2023-2024



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