AGENDA
Donderdag 11 juni
MAKING GINGERBEER
Open fermentation session (NL/EN)
19:30 - 21:00
Tijdens deze fermetatie sessie maken we een grote batch gemberbier voor EnergieKas èn een gingerbug voor iedereen om mee naar huis te nemen. Zo kun je thuis zelf ook gemberbier maken. Neem een glazen potje mee voor je gingerbug, wij zorgen voor de ingrediënten.
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Tonight we’re making a large batch of ginger beer for EnergieKas, and everyone will get their own ginger bug to take home so you can start making ginger beer yourself too. Please bring a glass jar for your bug, we will provide the ingredients.
5 euro donation. Sign up: THIS EVEN IS FULL
Zaterdag 13 juni
DAG VAN DE ARCHITECTUUR
Open day
11:00 - 16:00
Come and visit EnergieKas at the Architecture, and enjoy the beautiful view over the roof landscape of The Hague!
The theme of this year’s Day of Architecture is “The Solidarity Society.” We are at a tipping point. The challenges we face in the areas of climate, energy, and social justice are immense. Yet, as professor and transition expert Jan Rotmans often emphasizes, the most important transition we need to make is a personal one: overcoming our fear of change.
EnergieKas is a cultural testing ground that creates space for imagination, experimentation, and encounters at the intersection of art, climate, and science. It provides artists, designers, and makers with opportunities for hands-on experimentation, public programming, knowledge sharing, and collaboration across the fields of design, climate, and science. Together, we explore, test, and experience possible futures. What might our cities and societies look like if we chose a different path?
EnergieKas is part of De Helena, a former school building dating from the 1990s. Over the past few years, the building's users have gradually brought it back to life. Makers, designers, artists, community initiatives, and cultural organisations now use the space to host a wide range of activities. De Helena demonstrates how a place can evolve and flourish when people are given the opportunity to build something together. The municipality plans to sell the building. In response, the current users joined forces with an investor and submitted a proposal for a cultural and social future for the site. Their vision is to further develop the building as a non-profit, sustainable, and community-oriented place that continues to serve the city and its residents.
No need to sign up
Dinsdag 30 juni
StadsLab: De Gedeelde Stad / The Shared City
Popsession #1: lecture & workshop (EN)
19:00 - 21:00
We invite you to join us for PopSession #1, the first edition, taking place on the rooftop of De Helena.
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.
Our guest speaker for this edition is Roberto Rocco of the Centre for the Just City. Roberto is an Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft. Trained as both an architect and spatial planner, he earned his Master’s degree in Planning from the University of São Paulo and completed his PhD at TU Delft.
His research focuses primarily on governance for sustainability transitions, regional planning, and spatial design, with particular attention to spatial justice as a crucial component of these transitions. He has extensively researched and published on informal urbanisation in the Global South, specifically investigating how informal institutions shape and influence planning practices at the local level. This work has resulted in two major publications: The Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanisation (2019) and Insurgent Planning Practice (2024).
Together with Caroline Newton, he co-directs the TU Delft Centre for the Just City, an initiative dedicated to promoting spatial justice in the built environment through education, research, and consultancy.
> We ask for a small contribution on a Pay What You Want basis.
> Please note that our events operate a no-show policy: registering means attending. Of course, if you can no longer make it, you can always send us a cancellation so we know whether we can count on you.
Sign up: https://event.energiekas.nl/energiekas/reserve/46
About StadsLab
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 are initiated by the Popdistrict Foundation. 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.
Woensdag 1 juli
SEASONAL KIMCHI: CUCUMBERS
Open fermentation session (EN/NL)
19:30 - 21:00
Did you know kimchi is seasonal and can be made with a wide range of vegetables?
Join our open fermentation session led by Taeyeon Kim, Global Kimchi Ambassador of the World Institute of Kimchi.
We’ll be making oi-kimchi: cucumber kimchi. This is an essential part of Korean summer, known for its light and refreshing taste. We’ll also explore how to choose the right ingredients, and the basics of making and fermenting kimchi. Bring your own ingredients and jar. More details will be shared beforehand.
5 euro donation. Sign up: https://event.energiekas.nl/energiekas/reserve/43
Zaterdag 4 juli
HANDS ON MAKING IT HAPPEN
DakDoeDag - RoofDoDay
11:00 - 16:00
Doe mee met de DakDoeDagen bij EnergieKas, samen verduurzamen we het Haagse daklandschap!
Join the Roof-Do-Days at EnergieKas, together we’re making The Hague’s rooftops more sustainable!
Gratis aanmelden / Free entry, sign up: https://event.energiekas.nl/energiekas/reserve/39
Donderdag 9 juli
JOIN THE ROOFTOP POETS
Open dichtavond (all languages welcome)
19:30 - 21:30
Come (on up) and make poetry on the roof!
Think candles, tea, beer, wine, and lots of paper. We’ll write poetry, together and on our own, guided by a shared theme, in a place where the gaze stretches far, and thoughts even further..
Do you think you could never write a poem?
Have you been doing it for years?
Do you actually have no idea what a poem even is?
All three apply to us too, and that doesn’t stop us. Give it a try, or share what you’ve been doing for years. Put a few words on paper, and you might suddenly find yourself reading them aloud by the end of the evening!
ALL LANGUAGES WELCOME!
Language is no barrier, as far as we’re concerned (and we are). Poetry makes its own language, one that cares little for borders or rationality.
PS: if you don’t feel like cooking, Conscious Kitchen provides a meal of “saved veggies” in the Helena.
Woensdag 29 juli
Make your own sourdough focaccia - beginner friendly
RotClub: open fermentation session (EN/NL)
19:00 - 21:30
