SDG+Lab summer exhibition "Everything different? Paths to Transformation" in the theme year "Transformations in Energy + Environment"

The world around us is changing - heavy rainfall and hot summers in northern Hesse are having a noticeable local impact as natural resources become increasingly scarce. Saving electricity, cycling more and preparing for storms - will everything be different in the future? From July 9 to October 19, the SDG+ Lab's new exhibition "Everything different? Paths to transformation" shows how people and institutions from Kassel are actively shaping change for a shared future.

Can we have a say in the direction we take? Where do we even want to go? Why should we - and others - get involved? And how can a transformation succeed? As part of the "Transformations in Energy + Environment" theme year, the exhibition focuses on the work within the project, but also shows what committed people from science and society in the region are already contributing to change for a sustainable region. Visitors are actively involved in shaping, developing their vision of a North Hesse of the future and moving the lever of transformation.

SDG+Lab | Laboratory for sustainability issues

Together, we are tackling the major sustainability issues of our time. From 2023 to 2027, the SDG+ Lab will bring together science, business and society and develop impulses and concrete solutions for a sustainable region of Kassel and North Hesse along the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations.

To the website of the SDG+Lab

Thematic years

Starting in fall 2023, ideas for solutions and model projects for the region will be developed in four consecutive themed years in the so-called "Experimentale". Each theme year summarizes different aspects of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and relates them to the North Hesse region.

Transformations in energy and the environment: In the first round of the "Energy and Environment" experimentals, climate-friendly alternatives were made tangible in the areas of energy, mobility, buildings and consumption. From November 2023, "pop-up city district stores" were set up as experimental spaces in several districts of Kassel for two months at a time. These will serve as bases for implementing a wide range of participatory activities for the local population, such as workshops, expert discussions and working group meetings. The activities initiated are then monitored for up to one year.

UNI:Lokal
Wilhelmsstraße 21
34117 Kassel

Opening hours
Tuesday to Friday: 12.00 to 18.00
Saturday 12.00 to 16.00
Closed on Mondays

Admission is free.