POWER connects questions of energy and politics. The exhibition and accompanying program challenges viewers to consider how contemporary infrastructure relates to everyday life across intersecting concerns, including political institutions, citizen participation, geopolitics, energy transition, and climate justice. More info here

Dates Vendredi, 13 octobre, 2023Dimanche, 25 février, 2024 Vernissage 12.10.2023 - 19:00 Address CIVA Rue de l’Ermitage 55 1050 Bruxelles

La Pile is an invitation to set up new electrical practices in the city. Producing electricity locally, sharing it among neighbours, using less of it or at other moment in time, collectively investing in the future...

Projects rooted in the reality of Brussels' neighbourhoods are taking shape, fuelled as much by expert opinions and the technical configuration of infrastructure as by the practices of pioneering individuals.

La Pile is an Open Ended Design process by City Mine(d). The process and different initiatives emerging from it are depicted by aquarelles by Fanny Monier:

La Pile Mécanique illustrates the need to make renewable energies visible.
SunSud shares solar energy in a social housing block, as a pioneer for Brussels, and tackles the challenges of energy poverty. Pilone, run by a group of residents in the Quartier Midi, draws on existing communities (mosques, neighbourhood committees, trade unions, etc.) to create an "energy community".
Remorque Réno, in the Quartier Nord, is trying to unite desires, needs and stakeholders around the challenge of conserving energy.

The low voltage feeder, made available by distribution network operator Sibelga, epitomises the technical-infrastructural relationship that links electricity users in a single neighbourhood. It makes collaboration among neighbours self-evident. The feeder provides a strong socio-technical metaphor for a future energy landscape of communities that builds on the infrastructure already present in our streets.

SunSud videos:
• Extrait du documentaire "Charmeurs de Soleil" (2023) par David Vranken, partenaires coproducteurs Centre Vidéo de Bruxelles, Innoviris co-create "Voisins d'Energie", la Fédération des Services Sociaux • Reportage par Jean-Christophe Pesesse pour l’émission Autrement (BX1 – 6/12/2022)