Klimaatweek x StadsLab: The Climate-resilient City
Pop Session: presentations & workshop (EN)
Pop District as a Living Lab for the Sustainable City
Are you a dreamer, designer, resident or entrepreneur who believes the city can be more sustainable — and more fun? During The Hague Climate Week, we’ll explore how the Pop District in the city centre can develop into a living lab for the climate transition. Join us, get inspired and share your vision!
Cities need to adapt to a changing climate. The municipality is developing a new vision for public space, while the Pop District is positioning itself as a living lab for the city of tomorrow. Plenty of reasons to put our imagination to work!
In the Pop District, music, culture, businesses, residents and visitors come together right in the heart of the city. This makes it an ideal testing ground for new solutions, new collaborations and discovering what works in practice. Can a water retention basin become a swimming pond, a façade become a forest, and a public square become a heat buffer?
In the City Lab, we bring different people and organisations together to share ideas, inspiring examples and concrete experiments. Our goal: to make the Pop District a visible example of how culture and sustainability can reinforce each other.
Share your ideas. Experiment. Help build the Pop District of the future.
This event is organised from within the EnergieKas community. The people hosting or facilitating it are contributing their time and knowledge voluntarily.
We ask for a small contribution to help cover the use of the space and keep EnergieKas running as a place for experimentation, community and learning. If the contribution is not affordable for you, you can adjust the price yourself. The same goes the other way as well, if you are able to contribute a little more, that is always greatly appreciated.
If you signed up but can no longer make it, please cancel your ticket so someone else can take your place.
About EnergieKas & StadsLab (CityLab)
Energiekas is a cultural test-site that offers space for imagination, experimentation, and encounters at the intersection of art, climate, and science. A place to explore new ways of seeing, growing, creating, building, and living together. EnergieKas is a non-profit, bottom-up and hands-on project.
At our brand new StadsLab we reimagine the existing city. How do we design regenerative, climate-adaptive and just ways of living together, from street to region and from civic initiative to institutional policy? StadsLab is a collaboration between EnergieKas and Popdistrict.
About Popdistrict & Pop Sessions
Popdistrict is a 25,000 m² cultural institution with a tramline running straight through its centre. The district’s public space connects dozens of locations housing creative entrepreneurs and cultural organisations, while also providing a stage for numerous music festivals, including Sniester, Grauzone, and Rewire.
During Pop Sessions, we come together to explore the questions that concern us. One of these questions is how we collectively organise space in our city. Who has access? Who decides? What collective models can we apply? And who holds the power?
Each Pop Session consists of a lecture, conversation, and short workshop. Afterwards, there will be space to continue the discussion informally.