Upcoming & on-going events

• TALK — “High-tech problems, obsolete technologies, and low-tech solutions”, Talk at Elisava, Barcelona, October 29, 2025.

• EXHIBITION — Au Charbon ! / At the Coalface! Pour un design post-carbone, Centre Historique Minier, FR. Presenting our solar website. From June 21st 2026 till May 25th 2026.

Past events

• PARTY — SÓLARFEST, Saturday October 18, 2025, Barcelona, Spain. La Marbella, Poblenou, between the pine trees. In collaboration with Nemo Omen. We organise our second human and solar powered party near the beach in Barcelona. Five DJ’s, two solar panels, and two bike generators. Come and find us. We start at 13:00 and continue until late in evening, switching from solar panels to bike generators. The event is self-managed and free of charge. Bring your food, your drinks, and your best energy. Bring whoever you want from your close circle, but we ask that you do not share information or photos on social media. There will be analog and digital (old) cameras available so you can immortalize whatever you like best.

• TALK — Festival low-tech á Roubaix, Monastère des Clarisses, 2 rue de Wasquehal – Roubaix, 26-27 September 2025.

• EXHIBITION — Digital Witness, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA. Presenting our dithering process to compress images. Until July 13, 2025.

• EXHIBITION — Graphic Days Torino, Italy, 2025. Showcasing the Compressed Edition.

• BOOK LAUNCH Brussels — How to Make Books more Sustainable, 29.4.25 - 7pm, Architecture Curating Practice, Brussels, BE. Launching our new compressed book edition.

• BOOK LAUNCH Barcelona — How to Make Books more Sustainable, Akasha Hub, Barcelona. Launching our new compressed book edition.

• EXHIBITION — Design voor de Planeet, Design Museum Den Bosch, the Netherlands. Showcasing the solar website and a bike generator. Until February 9 (extended), 2025.

• WORKSHOP — How to build a bike generator.Valencia, Spain, January 2025.

• EXHIBITION — Spaces for Tomorrow, by SBYD at the Dutch Design Week, 19-27 October 2024. Showcasing one our bike generator, built during a workshop with design students at the Folkwang University in Essen, DE.
• ONLINE TALK — ESC RETURN ↩ : Scripts for degrowth, buen vivir and living otherwise, panke-gallery, Berlin, June 1&2, 2024.
• WORKSHOP — Building Small Scale Autonomous Energy System. Folkwang Design School. Essen, DE, 2024.
• TALK — Back to the Middle Ages?. Reflection on the work of Louise Morin at the gallery et al. 21st of May, 2024. Brussels, Belgium.
• OPEN STUDIO — Meyboom Festival. Our Brussels co-working space has their open week-end. We will be selling books and showcasing a bike generator. 4-5 May 2024, Brussels, Belgium.
• TALK — Back to the Future of the Internet, 21 February 2024. Talk & debate on the past and future of the web at AkashaHub, Barcelona, Spain.
• TALK — Night of Ideas 2024, 26 February 2024, Institut Français, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• EXHIBITION — Energies Légères, 9 November-17 March 2024, Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris. A show about “lighter energies”, where one of our bike generators is on display.
• INTERVIEW — “Figure it Out: the Art of Living through System Failures”. Radio Conference on Stegi.radio, 13-15 December 2023, Athens, Greece. Podcast here.
• TALK — “Piksel festival”, Bergen, Norway, 23-26 November, 2023.
• INTERVIEW — “Techtonic with Mark Hurst”. Podcast, 20 November 2024.
• TALK — “Jornadas, la tierra para quien la regenera”, 11-12 November, Can Masdeu, Barcelona, Spain.
• TALK — “Sufficiency and frugality: business model and public acceptance and adoption”, 7-8 November 2023, Valencia, Spain

• WORKSHOP — How to build a bike generator. Rotterdam, the Netherlands. 10-14 October 2023.
• WORKSHOP — Direct solar systems. Transitiefestival, Antwerp, Belgium. 9 September 2023.
• TALK — Summer School, Nomadic School of Arts, Soft Connection Lab, KASK, Ghent, Belgium. 5 September 2023
• WORKSHOP — Direct solar systems, UOC, Barcelona, Spain. 6 July 2023.
• WORKSHOP — Direct solar systems, AkashaHub, Barcelona, Spain. 11 June 2023.
• WORKSHOP — How to build a bike generator, BiciHub, Barcelona, Spain. In cooperation with SlowLab. 7 June 2023.
• TALK — Design Investigations, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. 2 May 2023.

2019-2023 events: List under construction.

• EXHIBITION — The Offline Portal, Dutch Design Week 2021, The Netherlands. Showcasing an offline installation of the website.

• Futurs Pluriels: Low Tech!, Plurality University Network, September 11, 2019, Paris, France.

• Look Back, Move Forward, The Conference, Malmö, Sweden, August 27, 2019.

• Urban Tour: Human Power Plant, Platform GRAS, Performing Arts Festival Groningen, the Netherlands, August 16-17, 2019.

• IAM Barcelona, The Quantumness of Archipelagos, Barcelona, Spain, March 21-23 2019.

• Bits & Baüme, Die Konferenz für Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit, Berlin, Germany, November 2018. Debate + presentation of the solar powered website.

• Crossing Border, The Hague, November 2018. Presentation of the Human Power Plant, with Melle Smets.

• Live without airplanes, University of Hull, Institute of Applied Ethics, UK, October 2018.

• Radical Networks, Berlin, Germany, October 2018. A presentation of the solar powered website by Marie Otsuka and Roel Roscam Abbing.

• Lowtech Lab, Archipel, Antwerp, Belgium, September 2018

• Border Sessions Tech Culture Festival, The Hague, June 2018

• Rethinking Comfort, 10th Windsor Conference, Windsor, UK, April 2018

• Workshops Human Power Plant, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, November 2017

• Preview Human Power Plant, Antwerp, Belgium, October 2017

• Labland, Ghent, Belgium, July 2017

• PLEA 2017, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2017

• NODE17: Designing Hope, Frankfurt, Germany, June 2017

• Setmana de la Ciència Crítica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, May 2017

• II Congrés de Sobirania Tecnològica, Barcelona, Spain, March 2017

• “Stralingsverwarming”, Trend 21, Rotterdam, Netherlands, March 2017

• “Open Forum on Technology”, Summer School on Degrowth and Environmental Justice, Can Decreix, Cerbère, France, July 2016

• “Back to the Middle Ages?”, Nocturne Anno 1465, Domein Raversyde, Oostend, Belgium, July 2016

• “Spark Lecture: Low-tech Solutions for High-tech Problems”, Climate KIC, Utrecht, the Netherlands, June 2016

• “Low-tech Solutions”, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Hague, The Netherlands, November 2015

• “Low-tech Cities”, Border Sessions, The Hague, The Netherlands, November 2015

• “The prospective of forgotten technology”, DEMAND Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, May 2015

• “Low-tech Solutions”, System D Academy, Sandberg Institute, Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 2015

• “Productontwikkeling: hightech of lowtech?”, Workshop Product Design, Antwerp University, January 2015

• “Ever considered low-tech?”, FEA Research Symposium, Ghent University, December 2014, Ghent, Belgium.

• “Low-tech Solutions for a Sustainable Society”, Capitalism Catch-22, IMPAKT Festival, November 2013, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

• “Smart Technologies: Possibly High or Low”, Make a Difference (MaD) 2013, January 2013, Hong Kong.

• “Technologies Lost and Found” (workshop), Make a Difference (MaD) 2013, January 2013, Hong Kong.

• “The prospective of forgotten technology”, ARTMAP, December 2012, Paris, France.

• “Energie anders bekeken: geschiedenis inspireert tot een duurzame energiestrategie”, Koninklijke Vlaamse Ingenieursvereniging, November 2012, Antwerp, Belgium.

• “Lowtech creativiteit en innovatie”, Gent BC Business Café, November 2012, Ghent, Belgium.

• “Energie in 2030 - maatschappelijke keuzes van nu”, Rathenau Instituut & Energie+, October 2011, The Hague, the Netherlands.

• “LIFT France 2011: Be Radical”, FING, July 2011, Marseille, France.

• “Duurzame filantropen”, Flemish government, Departement of Environment, October 2010, Brussels, Belgium.