Enter, in appropriate white pants suit and slicked back hair, the Sustainable Dance Club (or SDC). An innovation from Netherlands-based organizations Enviu and Döll, the SDC concept is aimed at making your Saturday night lighter on your conscience through a range of creative solutions to make the whole dang-blasted thing self-sustaining.

 

 

Most intriguing among these solutions is the sustainable dance floor, which converts the clattering of revellers’ hooves into an electrical charge that is used to power the club itself. It’s a great idea that challenges those doing the gyrating to be as energetic as possible, and might just convince even the most rigid of wallflowers to do the same. While the energy output is admittedly low, the SDC is all about inflaming awareness about sustainability, and having fun with the often tedious idea of eco-consciousness.

 

 

Vera Verkooijen of the SDC tells Merge that “we are also developing ideas like a sustainable bar, personal cupholder, a water wall (for air-conditioning) and a relax roof but we also look to work with already proven technology like wind, solar and water energy as efficient way as possible”. And though we’re not too sure what a ‘relax roof’ is, it all sounds fantastic.

 

Get those passports dusted off, because the world’s first club to utilise SDC technology, Club WATT, is set to open in Rotterdam on September 4th. And, what’s more, Vera says “In July we will visit London, to look for possibilities to open the next Sustainable Dance Club there”. So if you do make the miles, then you can revel in the hazy satisfaction of doing something productive without even trying - although you still might not remember anything the next morning. 

 

Photographs courtesy of Frank Hanswijk.

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