Electricity, my neighbours and me

2018>2024: La pile is a project that creates links between neighbours to reinvent electricity in the city. Join the electric test field to generating electricity locally, distribute it to neighbours, consume less, or at other times, invest together in the future...

Brochure - Energy Retrofitting: explorations and inspiration

Tools BackgroundInfo Inspiration - New Practices Northern District

29/02/2024

Producing and using electricity at human scale?

Four years of experimenting in Brussels neighbourhoods.

BackgroundInfo Reports

30/01/2024

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City Mine(d) opens it's lab for future challenges at CIVA

- Informal presentation & discussion

BackgroundInfo Inspiration - New Practices

23/01/2024

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Book LAUNCH ⚡ Apéro La Pile 5 years

La Pile Mécanique Pilone SunSud Midi Neighbourhood BackgroundInfo Reports Northern District RemorqueRéno

23/12/2023

Pourquoi s’attaquer à la question de l'énergie dans nos logements ?

BackgroundInfo Northern District RemorqueRéno

31/10/2023

New La Pile publication ! "Producing and using electricity at human scale?"

Four years of experimenting in Brussels neighbourhoods.

Tools BackgroundInfo Reports Inspiration - New Practices

25/10/2023

POWER expo at CIVA! !! !!! La Pile projects on display > prolonged until 17.03.2024

SunSud - what mattered (story, learnings, data, strategies, tools)

Tools SunSud Midi Neighbourhood BackgroundInfo Reports

30/08/2023

La Pile: electricity, the city and open-ended design

Expo La Pile Mécanique Pilone SunSud Midi Neighbourhood BackgroundInfo Northern District

11/08/2023

Remorque Réno

Northern District RemorqueRéno

30/06/2023

SunSud after 1 full year of energy sharing

SunSud Midi Neighbourhood Reports

11/04/2023

1 year of energy sharing - the press about our first data

Press SunSud Midi Neighbourhood Reports

16/02/2023

SunSud on BX1 tv

Press SunSud

09/02/2023

La Pile and the Energy Crisis at RadioPanik

Press

30/11/2022

SunSud

- the story

SunSud Midi Neighbourhood BackgroundInfo

30/11/2022

SunSud : first conclusions after 2 years into the pilot project.

Social inclusion, energy poverty and energy sharing projects ?

SunSud Midi Neighbourhood

15/11/2022

SunSud : Le partage d'énergie, c’est parti !

Locataires sociaux testent leur projet pionnier "sur mesure"

SunSud Midi Neighbourhood

24/03/2022

Inscriptions Ateliers - L’énergie solaire du quartier? ça se partage !

énergie - design - électronique - réalisation d’objets en fablab - projet de quartier

Ateliers SunSud - création Display

pour créer un tableau-info

SunSud Midi Neighbourhood

16/02/2022

Fleurs Electriques ••• Opening

Événements Électriques Northern District

28/01/2022

UPCOMING ! ! ! ! ! ! ! January 2022

Expo Fleurs Electriques @ Centre Pôle Nord

Energy - under high tension

Comment faire "Communauté d'Energie"?

Press Press Inspiration - New Practices

21/12/2021

"Fleurs Electriques"

An inspiring story in the Northern District

Événements Électriques Inspiration - New Practices Northern District

30/11/2021

Summer energy!

Meetings in the Northern District in Brussels

Northern District

30/08/2021

Summer article featuring La Pile, SunSud & Pilone

- La Pile dans la presse avec SunSud et Pilone

Press Pilone SunSud BackgroundInfo

16/08/2021

PILONE

Pilone Midi Neighbourhood

19/03/2021

Soon: our solar energy to be distributed in Vlogaert!

SunSud

09/02/2021

First energy communities share solar power

La Pile in the press

Press SunSud BackgroundInfo

04/02/2021

What is the poltentiel of the Quartier Midi ? Check Pilone's "carte sol(id)aire"

Tools Pilone Midi Neighbourhood

08/01/2021

From « LA PILE EXPO » to « PILONE »: A retrospective

Expo Pilone Midi Neighbourhood BackgroundInfo Reports

08/01/2021

La Pile Mécanique: concept for a functional work of art as an invitation to the Midi neighbourhood (look back)

La Pile Mécanique Midi Neighbourhood Reports

03/11/2020

Rencontres "Sundwich" with Pilone

@ DK & online

Announcements

21/10/2020

"Centrale Électrique" : 5 actions to realise together

Pilone Midi Neighbourhood

01/10/2020

Finding the hottest spots for an energy community

Tools La Pile Mécanique Midi Neighbourhood

24/08/2020

2 embryos of energy communities in Saint-Gilles

La Pile Mécanique Pilone SunSud Midi Neighbourhood BackgroundInfo

29/07/2020

EXPO LA PILE ••• ONLINE & AS A BOOK!

Expo Tools BackgroundInfo Inspiration - New Practices

15/07/2020

A local citizen power plant?

First neighbour meeting

Événements Électriques Pilone Midi Neighbourhood

10/07/2020

29.06.20 :: First neighbourhood meeting! @ Le Tri Postal :: A local power plant for the neighbourhood?

Invitation à tous les habitants du quartier Saint-Gilles Midi

Événements Électriques Pilone Midi Neighbourhood Announcements

18/06/2020

4 New Rencontres Électriques with Voisins d'Énergie

01.06.2020 :: 17:00 > 18:00 ; 15.06.2020 :: 20:00 > 21:00 ; 24.06.20 :: 18:00 > 20:00 & 01.07.2020 :: 17:00 > 18:00

Solar panels for condominiums - from individual production to collective self-consumption?

Conference-debate with the Association for Renewable Energy

Événements Électriques Pilone BackgroundInfo Reports

06/04/2020

La Pile Mécanique with conductive painting ⚡

Retour sur un atelier maker à la Sint Gillis Bibliotheek

Événements Électriques La Pile Mécanique Reports

31/03/2020

In the news!

La Pile dans la presse

Press BackgroundInfo

03/03/2020

Uni-vert Solaire: an inspiring pioneersproject

Un locataire convainc sa coopérative de locataires d'installer des panneaux solaires sur les logements sociaux

Événements Électriques Reports Inspiration - New Practices

21/02/2020

La Pile Mécanique in the Midi neighbourghood, but where?

Compte-rendu de l'atelier de cartographie 30.01.2020

Événements Électriques La Pile Mécanique Midi Neighbourhood Reports

01/02/2020

Expo La Pile at the Maison du Peuple

07>21.02.20 Expo + Rencontres Electriques

Expo Announcements

20/01/2020

La Pile Mécanique

a giant, mechanical, neighbourhood-made battery without using scarce resources

Tools La Pile Mécanique

06/01/2020

Why working on local energy is more than exciting !

[longread]

BackgroundInfo

06/01/2020

UPCOMING ! ! ! ! ! ! ! January - March 2020

Join La Pile for new electric practices! - CALENDAR

Événements Électriques La Pile Mécanique Announcements

03/01/2020

Expo La Pile at the Maison du Peuple

07>21.02.20 Expo + Rencontres Electriques

La Pile ~ Soirée Electrique #0002 DIY

Proposals, questions and ideas of the evening

Événements Électriques La Pile Mécanique Midi Neighbourhood

04/12/2019

La PiLe is a project that creates links between neighbours and reinvents electricity in the city.

A test site is being set up in Brussels Midi to visualise, generate, store and share electricity collectively

La Pile ~ Soirée Électrique #0002 DIY

02.12.19 :: 17:45 > 20:30

Expo La Pile on tour in Flanders

Hosted by the provincial centre for innovation Kamp C :: 14.11.19 > 31.01.20

Expo Announcements

15/11/2019

La Pile in Mexico City :: showcase at Muca Roma :: Thursday 5 sept '19 5pm

Événements Électriques La Pile Mécanique Announcements

03/09/2019

Expo La Pile at the Pianofabriek

04.07 - 17.09.2019 :: The future of electricity with works by 14 pioneers

Expo Événements Électriques Midi Neighbourhood Announcements

28/06/2019

La Pile ~ Midi Électrique #0001

17.06.2019 12:30

Dealing with rising costs of electricity: The Map

Tools BackgroundInfo

17/05/2019

Debate La Pile @ BOZAR

12.05.2019 - 17:00

Expo Événements Électriques Reports

12/05/2019

Programme La Pile at Bozar

What if, suddenly, we were unable to draw power from the electricity grid?

Expo Événements Électriques Announcements

06/05/2019

Playing La Pile ?

12.05.2019

Tools

24/04/2019

La Pile in Bozar

09.05 — 25.05.2019 Expo & Powerfest

Expo La Pile :: Grand Ouverture at Bozar

09.05 - 25.05.2019 :: The electricity of the future according to 14 pioniers

Expo BackgroundInfo

02/04/2019

Electricity, my neighbours and me