Sustainability driven projects
Data driven projects

Data translation and exploratory research
The Carbon Box
MA Thesis

How do we communicate climate science through accessible and engaging mediums? Through research and design, the carbon box translates national CO₂ trends into an interactive physical experience of data and offers insight into the potential of data physicalisations to address climate communication challenges.

Featured:
Visualising Knowledge Conference, Exhibited project: Carbon Box [Helsinki, FI]

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Tracking microplastic leakages in dutch waterwaysNurdle Soup
Team manager and product designer

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.

Received:
€5,000  grant from Steunfonds Duurzaamheid (Sustainability Support Fund NL)

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Alerting communal air quality through tangible data visualisationAura
Bachelor graduation project (2020)

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 . 

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Collaborative problem solving interactions to translate wicked sustainability challenges.
Dory
Research and development project

Dory transforms ocean challenges into hybrid collaborative gameplay. By blending environmental issues with interactive game mechanics, players gather an intuitive understanding of the complexity of our marine ecosystem threats.


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Phone behaviour tracking and alertingTimeLess
Bachelors project - Seamless interaction

Guided by various user behaviour patterns, TimeLess nudges users into limiting phone distractions. Seamless auditory signals and a performance overview support individuals in developing healthy behaviour changes.

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Portfolio
Nathan Pottier

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Key to my values and work ethic, I believe that our environmental crisis is made too complex and inaccessible.
Clear, evidential and engaging approaches through design and technological advances are a solution to bring forward narratives to act.

Recent graduate from Aalto University in Finland, I find passion in complexity and how it can be communicated through creative mediums.

Embracing complexity sits at the core of my work, with socio-environmental causes serving as the driving force.
Through the lenses of art, design, business, and engineering, the process relies on a collaborative and hands-on approach, using design practices, tangibility, and data to craft meaningful stories and convey information on complex issues, helping to initiate or accelerate sustainable change.

 



Education
Masters of Arts, Major - Creative Sustainability, Minor - Information Design
2025 - Aalto University [FI]


Bachelors of Science, Industrial Design 
2021 - Eindhoven University of Technology [NL]

Upgrading Program in Applied Sciences 
2017 - Université Paris-Sud [FR]

Baccalauréat, Economic and Social Sciences, Distinction: Very Good 
2016 -International French School of Bangkok [TH]

2012 - International French School of Sydney [AUS]

2010 - International School of Siem Reap (British Curriculum: Year 1 - Year 7) [KH]



Experience Studio Assistant
Isabelle Andriessen
Ongoing [Amsterdam,NL]


Exhibition Designer
Internship
NEMO Science Museum 
2026 [Amsterdam, NL]

Strategic Design Researcher
Woven Studio (Thijs Biersteker) 
2024 [Amsterdam, NL]

Project Manager
A-Frame Project - Aalto University 
2023 [Helsinki, FI]

Production Design
Internship
Woven Studio (Thijs Biersteker) 
2021 [Amsterdam, NL]

Product Designer
Internship
Teijin Aramid 
2020 [ Arnhem, NL]

Private highschool teacher, 
Maths, French & English
CleverMate
2025 [Paris, FR]



Attended conferences and workshops
DATA & DESIGN
Information Design Conference 
2025 [Hilversum, NL]

Data Visualisation for Science, Info Design Lab (Angela Morelli and Tom Gabriel Johansen) - Graphic Hunters 
2025 [Utrecht, NL]

Data Vandals Workshop, Data Vandals - Graphic Hunters 
2025 [Utrecht, NL]

TEI 2024, Tangible and Embodied Interaction Conference 2024 [Cork, IRL]

Visualising Knoweldge Conference, Exhibited project: Carbon Box 
2022 [Helsinki, FI]

Art & Society
UNESCO General Conference, Exhibitor and spokesperson for Woven Studio with Amazonium
2023 [Paris, FR]

G20 Conference, Exhibition set-up for Woven Studio with Econario
2023 [Patna, IND]

Festival University, Participant in ARS Electronica Festival, ARS Electronica & JKU 
2021 [Linz, AUT]


























Art production and strategic research

Woven Studio & Thijs Biersteker
Internship & MA research collaboration

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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Grassroots and sustainability initiative
Renovating the A-frame
Project Coordinator

Revitalising a communal experimental outdoors lab \Test Site/ through an A to Z project led by up to 40 students and experts. From grant submission to final inauguration the A-frame project engaged a strong interdisciplinary and sustainable approach.

Received:
€9,500  grant from TTE Fund
€2,000 grant from Sustainability action booster

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Integrating circular economy models in a multinational company scale
Product development with KONE Development lead

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

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Nathan Pottier - Portfolio -  2026