Fab Find: Sustainable Dance Club
Going out in a hip and trendy club while embracing social and environmental responsibility is the vision that drives the Sustainable Dance Club. The kick-off party, called 'The Critical Mass', is scheduled for later this week (October 14) and will show off the fusion of a contemporary dance-party lifestyle with the latest ideas on sustainability.
Based on the idea that producing and consuming in a responsible manner are no longer reserved for a specific demographic. Enviu, an innovative environmental NGO for young people, and architecture firm Döll have developed the Sustainable Dance Club together as a fun club combined with a low impact on the environment. Soon club-goers will be generating energy while dancing and flush the toilet with rainwater. The color of the walls will change as a reaction to the ambient heat in the room without using any energy use and organic beers will flow from the taps in the rooftop garden.
Next to physical and design solutions, Enviu and Döll also looked at the core business and processes of a club. Just imagine the amount of energy, warmth and humidity that a club crowd produces on a busy night, and you’ll see the great potential. Seamless integration of sustainable initiatives into an atmosphere common to any good club will create a place that people can make a sustainable contribution to their environment while truly enjoying life.
The concept of the Sustainable Dance Club gives meaning to sustainability within construction, entrepreneurship and clubbing for a young and trendsetting target group. Enviu and Döll are cooperating with the technical University of Delft, Off_Corso, the Development Board of Rotterdam and several experts within sustainable entrepreneurship and the creative industry. For us, sustainable entrepreneurship is about making profit by minimizing the environmental and social impact of your company or even contribute to a solution for such an issue. It is all about balancing the three core elements of our society: people, profit and planet to be able to live in a future sustainable world.
The program at The Critical Mass offers a scale of music styles combined with interactive design, culinary theatre, fashion, images and much more. The base for the program is to show the audience what the 'eco chain of clubbing' can entail. The Critical Mass wants to inspire, effect discussion and make people curious; all things that the Sustainable Dance Club hopes to be doing for years to come. More information about the club is available at enviu.org.