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There will be a full program of the Solar Biennale from September 9th till October 31rst. Check the website www.thesolarbiennale.com. And should you have any specific questions about The Solar Biennale, please email to hello@thesolarmovement.org. Sunny greetings!

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The Solar Biennale Opening Seminar @ Het Nieuwe Instituut September 9th

The Solar Seminar explores solar futures built on the power of design, what these futures look like and how to make them a reality.

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Fri, Sep 9, 2022, 10:30 AM – Sat, Sep 10, 2022, 4:30 PM CEST

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Het Nieuwe Instituut 25 Museumpark 3015 CB Rotterdam Netherlands

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The Solar Biennale Opening Seminar @ Het Nieuwe Instituut

The Solar Biennale and The Solar Movement envision solar futures built on the power of design.

The Solar Seminar officially kicks off The Solar Biennale with a program that explores solar futures built on the power of design. What could these futures look like and how to make them a reality?

Aim

The Solar Seminar aims to unite diverse disciplines and viewpoints and promote sharing knowledge amongst professionals working with solar energy. We start with a dream and finish with concrete, actionable directions.

We look at our dreamed up solar world through 5 lenses; personal, social, spatial, environmental and digital. Together we emphasize the interconnectedness of humans, nature and our dependence on the sun. We call for a holistic approach, supported by interdisciplinary collaboration, appreciating the cultural dimension of solar energy, the role of Solar Design and incorporating it into the existing dominant economic and technical narratives.

In part two of the Seminar we unpack the various dimensions on which solar energy and our relationships with the sun play out. In doing so, we specify what it takes to build a solar society. We look at concrete examples from practice, ask critical questions and bring diverse views and opinions together through city tours, panels and workshops. We share knowledge, create new connections and also look critically at existing approaches and solutions as well as the gaps and blind spots in the transition to a solar society.

During the last part of the Seminar, we formulate concrete directions and share actionable insights to realize these ideas together.

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Date: 09.09.22

Time: 10:30 - 17.00

Location: Het Nieuwe Instituut

Agenda

10:30 Opening with performance by Neila Moon, Singer Songwriter

The Dutch/Congolese singer songwriter expresses her feelings through her music and strives for people to experience her music as an adventure through space. The Solar Biennale invited the multi-talented Neila Moon to reflect on her relation with the sun and translate that into a new musical creation.

10:35 Welcome words by Pauline van Dongen, Co-Founder of The Solar Movement, Marjan van Aubel, Co-Founder of The Solar Movement and Aric Chen, General and Artistic Director of Het Nieuwe Instituut.

10:40 A Future Scenario for a Solar Society viewed through 5 lenses

1. Personal -Solar for the Senses by Pauline van Dongen, Solar Designer and Creative Director, Pauline van Dongen Studio

Traditional (fossil-based) energy systems are typically placed out of sight, so that we often deal with them thoughtlessly. The same thing often seems to be happening with solar energy, when silicon panels are placed on roofs and in the landscape. Yet solar has the potential to get very close to us. And like the rays of the sun solar surfaces and objects in our everyday environment can imbue our experience of the world with meaning. So the question that arises is how can design help make solar energy be a personal matter by making it tangible, engaging and actionable.

2. Social -The Decentralized Future of Energy by Neel Tamhane, Solar Lead, SPACE10

Why decentralization & democratization of clean energy could help enable energy independence for nations around the world and leapfrog energy transitions in communities living with little or no access to electricity today

3. Spatial-Solar in our Built Environment by Saskia van Stein, Managing Director, International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR)

4. Environmental -Freedom Energy for Climate Impact: The many faces of solar electricity by Prof. Dr. Wim C. Sinke, Professor emeritus, University of Amsterdam

5. Digital -Energy Centered Design by Alex Nathanson, Founder and lead designer, Solar Power for Artists/ Energy Transition Design LLC

How can designers engage with the energy context of their work?

11:40 Panel - A Future Scenario for a Solar Society, moderated by Tracy Metz

12:15 Lunch

13:15 6 Breakout sessions

1. Personal - Designing with the Sun, a workshop by Angella Mackey and Monserrat Vallejo

Solar power requires us to renegotiate our personal relationship to energy. We have been separated from the material and technological infrastructures that provide us with electricity, enabling us to over-consume energy in a seemingly limitless or even magical way without a tangible understanding of the consequences. In this workshop we will explore what it means to develop a personal and embodied relationship to sunlight in the context of solar energy, and how this might bring us into new relations with our energy use. Starting from the point of ourselves, we will engage the sun using portable solar panels and explore what it means to search for sunlight, to hear sunlight, and relate to it in more visceral ways.

This workshop is part of the research project Designing with the Sun. Participants in this session will be invited to further engage in the research project, if they so choose. Read more about the project here:https://civicinteractiondesign.com/

2. Social - Community-driven Solutions, a workshop by Neel Tamhane, SPACE10

In this workshop Neel takes you through exercises, thought experiments and other design methods to come up with community-driven solar solutions.

3. Spatial/social - Walking tour BoTu: A Manpowered City District (Dutch spoken)

Bospolder-Tussendijken in Delfshaven, also lovingly referred to as BoTu by, will be the first climate neutral neighborhood of Rotterdam in 2035. House of the Future and UrbanGuides take you on a tour to not only explore the district, but also the broader global challenge of energy transition through new eyes. For this, the House of the Future developed the future scenario ‘BoTu Manpowered’ in which the energy production is generated exclusively by two locally available sources: manpower and biomass, here and there supported by solar and wind energy. Your tour guide connects this future scenario to the history of the neighborhood that functioned, with its bath house, community kitchen and laundry, from its very beginning without the use of fossil fuels. Be inspired by a new (and in some ways maybe old) perspective on a future of living together.

4. Spatial - Whose Energy is it? curated by IABR (Dutch spoken)

How can a neighborhood in Rotterdam become resilient in the midst of all the challenges the climate crisis generates? How do the residents of Bospolder-Tussendijken work as owners of the energy transition? What is needed to make all Rotterdam residents owner of the abundant energy of the sun? And how can we use the transition to sustainable energy to also achieve broader social benefits?

In the context of the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, OOZE (Eva Pfannes) researched a Local Energy Action Plan in the energy quarter Bospolder-Tussendijken. Here local energy initiatives like Delfshaven Energy Cooperation (Robbert de Vrieze) move from theory to practice. In this workshop Eva and Robbert guide you, on the basis of local examples and plans from Bospolder-Tussendijken, to explorations of opportunities to make Rotterdam’s residents owner of sustainable energy through Public Solar Rooftops.

5. Environmental - Sustainable Solar, a panel discussion

We have put all our cards on solar panels. Lots of them and as fast as possible. But are we sure that this is the right path to a better future? Do we regard solar panels as an enrichment or a pollution of our natural and build environment? How recyclable are its materials? And are these panels produced in a way that respects workers and the environment? Essential questions that urgently need to be answered if we want to continue to enjoy the abundant energy of the sun.

In this panel Angele Reinders (Professor of 'Design of Sustainable Energy Systems', TU/e), Roebyem Anders (Co-Founder and Board member, Sungevity International) and Siemen Brinksma (Founder, Biosphere Solar, TBC) weigh in, and invite you to join their discussion.

6. Solar Education - Solar Powered Draw Bots, a workshop by Alex Nathanson

This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to creating solar powered electronic art. Over the course of this workshop, Alex will cover basic electronic knowledge and discuss a number of concepts and methods for incorporating photovoltaic solar power into art. Participants will design and build a solar powered draw bot and have new insight into the challenges and possibilities of incorporating sustainable energy into our daily lives through both practical and experimental uses.

14:45 Break

15:15 Welcome back with another performance by Neila Moon, Singer Songwriter

15:20 Feedback from breakout sessions moderated by Tracy Metz

15:35 Solar Futures, How to Design a Post-Fossile World with the Sun by Marjan van Aubel

Marjan van Aubel, award winning solar designer and co-founder of The Solar Movement and The Solar Biennale, draws from her new book 'Solar Futures, How to Design a Post-Fossil World with the Sun', to imagine what a solar society could look like.

16:00 Interview with Chantal Zeegers, Vice-Mayor Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the host city for the first The Solar Biennale. Vice-Mayor Chantal Zeegers, who holds the city’s portfolio for Climate, Build Environment and Housing, will explain why Rotterdam’s solar ambitions to become the solar capital of The Netherlands align so well with The Solar Biennale.

16:15 The Solar Biennale - 7 weeks of solar program

What can you expect of 7 weeks of The Solar Biennale program? With Pauline van Dongen, Solar designer and co-founder of The Solar Movement and The Solar Biennale, and Pallas Agterberg, Chair woman of the Board of The Solar Movement.

16:30 End of Solar seminar

For bios and more information on The Solar Biennale, visit www.thesolarbiennale.com

The Solar Biennale x Het Nieuwe Instituut

The Solar Biennale, een initiatief van solar designers Marjan van Aubel en Pauline van Dongen, vindt dit jaar voor het eerst plaats en heeft de tentoonstelling The Energy Show - Zon, zonne-energie en menskracht als centraal onderdeel. Samengesteld door curator en ontwerper Matylda Krzykowski en in samenwerking met The Solar Biennale, toont The Energy Show hoe de wereld eruitziet als hij draait op zonne-energie. Met innovatieve projecten van internationale kunstenaars, ontwerpers en onderzoekers, waaronder Mária Telkens, Solar Power for Artists en Solar Mamas.

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