Awards

Entrepreneurs’ Award in Social Innovation: Finalist (UK), 2024

What Design Can Do; Redesign Everything Challenge: Nominee (GLOBAL), 2024

Engineers Company; Innovation For All: Nominee (UK), 2024
Innovate UK Award: Winner (UK), 2023

Design Intelligence Award: Honourable Mention (GLOBAL), 2023

Isola Design Award: Winner (GLOBAL), 2022

ArtsThread Global Design Graduate Show: Shortlisted (GLOBAL), 2022

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Exhibitions

The Solar Biennale (‘Solar Blanket’), Mudac, Lausanne (CH), March - September 2025

 

Dutch Design Foundation (‘Solar Blanket’), Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL), October 2024

Design Intelligence Exhibition (‘Solar Blanket’), Science and Art Museum, Hangzhou (CN), December 2023 - January 2024

 

Green Grads (‘Solar Blanket’), Grand Designs, London (UK), May 2023

Circolare (‘Solar Blanket’), Milan Design Week, Milan (IT), April 2023

The Energy Show (‘Solar Blanket’), Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL), September 2022 - March 2023

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United Matters (‘Solar Blanket’), Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven  (NL), October 2022 

Green Grads (‘Solar Blanket’), Samsung Experience Centre, London (UK), September 2022

CSM Graduation Show (‘Solar Blanket’), Central Saint Martins, London (UK), June 2022

Future Health (‘The Hidden Qualities of Salt’), Health Hub Utrecht (NL), June 2022

 

Floriade Expo 2022 (‘The Hidden Qualities of Salt’), The Growing Pavilion, Almere (NL), August - October 2020

Generation 2020 (‘The Hidden Qualities of Salt’), Capital C, Amsterdam (NL), January 2020

 

Sustainability Month (‘From Bottle to Shoe’, ‘Research: Recycled Plastics’), Nieuwe Bibliotheek, Almere (NL), November - December 2019

Embassy of Health (‘The Hidden Qualities of Salt’), Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL), October 2019

ArtEZ Finals (‘The Hidden Qualities of Salt’), ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem (NL), July 2019

 

Common Ground ArtEZ (‘Not Another Trash Bag’), Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL), October 2017​

Innovate Arnhem (‘From Bottle to Shoe’), Rozet, Arnhem (NL), September - October 2017

Forms & Fictions (‘glasses’), Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen (NL), January - March 2017

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Talks & Lectures

EASI Showcase, Drapers’ Hall, London (UK), February 2025
Entrepreneurs’ Award in Social Innovation, Tower Suites by Blue Orchid, London (UK), June 2024

Green Grads Innovators, Green Living Live, Grand Designs, London (UK), May 2023

Young Talents, The Solar Biennale, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL), October 2022

Interview by Pauline van Dongen & Marjan van Aubel, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL), October 2022

Design Process & Career Path, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem (NL), November 2021

Footwear & Design Process, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem (NL), February 2021

Arnhemse Nieuwe ’19, Best Graduates, Ontwerp Platform Arnhem, Arnhem (NL), October 2019

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Publications

Engineering for Change (‘Solar Blanket’), February 2025

Dezeen: Six trends from Dutch Design Week 2024 (‘Solar Blanket’), October 2024

Dutch Design Daily (‘Solar Blanket’), March 2023

Haute Innovation (‘Solar Blanket’), March 2023

Archup ('Solar Blanket’), February 2023

DesignWanted (‘Solar Blanket’), February 2023

De Ingenieur (‘Solar Blanket’), February 2023

SeymourPowell: Trend Forecast 2023 (‘Solar Blanket’), January 2023

Design Network: Trend Report 2023+ (‘Solar Blanket’), January 2023

Dezeen: Dezeen's top 10 product designs of 2022 (‘Solar Blanket’), December 2022

Dezeen: Dezeen's top 10 designs from 2022 that rethought how we use energy (‘Solar Blanket’), December 2022

1E9 (‘Solar Blanket’), November 2022

WGSN (‘Solar Blanket’), October 2022

Dezeen / Katie Treggiden: The design industry needs to imagine a world where we use less energy (‘Solar Blanket’), September 2022

Dezeen: Ten products that demonstrate the potential of solar power (‘Solar Blanket’), September 2022

TrendHunter (‘Solar Blanket’), September 2022

WeVux (‘Solar Blanket’), July 2022

Zielona Interia (‘Solar Blanket’), July 2022

Global Design News (‘Solar Blanket’), July 2022

Dezeen: Mireille Steinhage creates "affordable and sustainable" Solar Blanket (‘Solar Blanket’), July 2022

Vogue Italia: Vogue Talents (‘The Hidden Qualities of Salt’), February 2020

NU.nl: Dutch Design Week (‘The Hidden Qualities of Salt’), October 2019

Dude Magazine: ‘Best Graduates’ (‘The Hidden Qualities of Salt’), October 2019

Arts Thread: ‘ArtEZ Product Design 2019’ (‘The Hidden Qualities of Salt’), July 2019