POLITICAL LAB ABOUT ELECTRIC CARS

The first ever Political Laboratorium about Electric Cars was held on May 18th 2015 at Kattesunder 12, in the centre of Copenhagen City. 

The Alternative believes that together we can create much better political solutions than we do today. That is why we invite everyone both in Denmark and abroad to send questions, ideas and input for developing The Alternative’s political proposals.

The Alternative will generate policies together with citizens of all ages and in all parts of the country through events and workshops. We will focus on challenges, opportunities and good examples. Ideas will be gathered which can be developed into solid political proposals and serious sustainable scenarios for the future.

From the website of the new Danish Green Party "The Alternative", who hosted the day.

Per Jørgensen Møller from The Danish Electric Car Commite gave a presentation

The citizents and specialists was gathered around a table with a cup of coffee and colorful papers and pens.

Open Discussions and interaction

Kåre Albrechsen from Copenhagen Electric, the Region of Copenhagen Regions Electric Car Department.

John Krøll 

Please notice the screen of Kåre's PC showing images from the Guinness World Record that he was part of in September 2014.

Thomas Knudsen

More about that lovely memory HERE

Martin Messer Thomsen from EV TEST. One of Denmarks most knowable men when it comes to Electric Cars, the most optimal way of driving them and where new laws about Electric Cars can be implemented so it makes most possible sense for Denmark. To the left of Martin is Christian Poll who is the lead candidate for The Alternative within the areas of Green Technology and ECO living.

Jon Seemann Pedersen from The Alternative talked about Self Driving Cars and how it is key to also include this new element to the future of transportation.

Notes from a participant.

David Morrow 

Members of The United Danish Electric Car Owners was present

David Morrow 

The initiator of the event Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen is in the above image wearing a T - Shirt from the Guinness World Record attempt in September 2014. He is the current holder of the World Record in "Largest Parade of Electric Cars".

David Morrow 

The Future is Not What it Used to Be - The Electric DeLorean from New York, turned into artwork as part of The Alternative election campaign.

David Morrow 

There is no doubt that Nikola Tesla would have supported the Electric Car today. Allready over 100 years ago he had the solution for a Fossil Free Future. He is the Godfather of the CO2 Green Drive Project and should be canonized as a Green Saint.

Now we will see what the brainstorm will turn into in the official politics of The Alternative and later into Danish politics in the near future!

Thanks to David Morrow for joining us during the day and documenting the moment!

UPDATE:
After this POLAB was held, we sent out the working paper to several of our friends and partners. Not long after that, the Danish political party "Radikal Venstre" went out in the Danish media and announced several of the concepts and proposals we had come up with during the day. This including a "Green Licence plate" for electric cars. All we can say about this is that The Alternative is all for tranceparency and sharing, but we also like to get credit for the ideas, but we also like to say "You are Welcome!"

Read the announcement HERE

THE ALTERNATIVE FUTURE OF SUSTAINABLE URBAN DESIGN IN COPENHAGEN AT DOME OF VISIONS

On May 23rd there will be a Political Laboratorium/Workshop at Dome of Visions in Copenhagen.
It will be hosted by The Triangle Project & CO2 Green Drive in collaboration with the new Danish Green Party called The Alternative. There will be three sessions with talks by specialists in Urban, Vertical and alternative ways of traditional farming. This is to inform and create public involvement in changing politics around the future of our food supply and local food production. The involved speakers and facilitators are:


HUMAN HABITAT

Ronnie Markussen from Human Habitat

Mikkel Kjær from Human Habitat

Human Habitat is a holistic design lab. They offer interdisciplinary concept--solutions linking design, architecture and food production. The aim is to generate holistic sustainability by creating economic, environmental and social value. 

Human Habitat website HERE

GLOBAL FOOD AND FARMING



Paul Kledal from IGFF

Institute for Global Food and Farming is a private institute doing applied research and consultancy within aquaponics, urban agriculture and the economic organization of agro food chains.

IGFF website HERE

VERTICAL GARDENING/FARMING

David Francois Diego Rey (French living in Copenhagen) is an architecture technologist & construction management student. He is a project coordinator in designing, planning & constructing community architectural projects with 5 years of project  management & practical construction experience with production stages companies, NGOs, and Project & Cultural Houses in Denmark. 

He has a passion for Design & Planning with Building Information Modelling (BIM), Maximum Sustainability and Facility Management.

David is driven by the desire to design, plan and construct smart homes & buildings with science and technology. David is also an educator & researcher holding talks, writing reports, video documenting and facilitating workshops in economy and sustainability practices.

In above image: David as part of the The Triangle Project Panel Discussion at Roskilde Festival 2013, talking about political activism. 

More about the Roskilde Panel Discussion event HERE.
Read David's paper on Vertical Farming in Wooden Skyscrapers HERE

The above photo is by Torben Dalhof is from left to right; The Triangle Project veteran and spokenword artist Claus Ankersen, New York photographer Brendon Stuart, Anup Yogi Desai who is the man behind Rentha.com and all the way to the right is David. 

Rune Wingård

Rune Wingård is one of the 10 Copenhagen candidates from the new Danish Political party The Alternative. Rune will be facilitating the Political Laboratorium, about the above subjects as part of the process of developing the political program for The Alternative.

Rune's personal Political Facebook Page HERE

The Alternative believes that together we can create much better political solutions than we do today. That is why they invite everyone both in Denmark and abroad to send questions, ideas and input for developing The Alternative’s political proposals.

Following the event at Dome of Visions on May 23rd 2015, the information from the day will be gathered and transferred into concrete political proposals, to potentially be implemented into the Official Political Agenda of The Alternative.

Read more about how The Alternative creates new involving Politics HERE

DATE & LOCATION:

May 23rd at 16:00 - 18:30
Dome of Visions
Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1
1016 København K
by DEN SORTE DIAMANT - Royal Public Library

Website HERE