Some of the highlights

LED light- Low energy lighting interacts with the audience, art project by Totem Collective

The young design agency Totem Collective, formed by Christina Mejborn and Line Langballe, prepared a very beautiful and interactive lighting concept for the festival with the newest opportunities within the LED lighting technology. The project was implemented in cooperation with the lightcompany  Seelite.

LED lighting was installed inside windows of DTU’s main building, and LED lamps were integrated into a forest area. Filament color and beam direction was controlled by sensors that reacted to movement from the audience when they moved around the field in front of the wood. Pretty light-art gave the festival participants the oppertunity to play and experiment with light, and sense the fantastic opportunities LED light creates. A poetic and enchanting image that created a romantic atmosphere at the festival site.

The Bike Stage

The bike stage was the most popular and successful element of the festival. It came around in 30 international and national media. This was a live show where the cyclists were part of the performance. Here art and technology was merged. The bike stage was a great example of innovative performing arts, where the participants acted in synergy with the technology, and took the stage to a live interactive show. At the festival’s bike stage both musicians, actors, radio hosts communicated the technology, while the audience competed to cycle power to the music. With the audience in the center, we believe here that we have created a unique, improvisational element in performing arts.  

Role play about our green future

The role play "Changing the Game" was played in the middle of Explore-tent, which was the universe at the festival focused on showing a world of many options for a green future – both through the exhibition, interviews, talks, films and interaction with audience.

With the role play it was about to activate and involve the audience to a new dialogue on climate and energy. Festival participants should design their dream scenario for a sustainable future – and then make it a reality. To lead the dream out in the framework of the laws of physics and our country’s economy, the participants became more aware of the challenges we face now. Role play was developed and run by a group of PhD students from Risø DTU called Energy Crossroads, and was played several times during the festival.

CO2PENHAGEN Cycle Parade and Mr. Green

CO2PENHAGEN Cycle Parade started from Kongens Nytorv with a speech by the Copenhagen Environment and Technology Mayor Klaus Bondam and a show with Mr. Green. BBC journalist Emma Thomas alså had a speech. With five other people she had cycled all the way from London to Copenhagen.

CO2PENHAGEN Cycle Parade was a huge procession of cyclists. A vibrant cycling theater, inviting the audience to bike out to the festival. On the journey along the way audiences was entertained by Mr. Green and Karma Kanonen who played music. As the party team of green suits arrived on Saturday at the festival at 12, they went on stage and opened the festival with a great appearance singing a climate song.

Happening in bus on biogas

By participating in a competition doing a "climate rap" with P3-host Henrik Milling, 30 people won a ticket for the festival through a radio program. Winners were given the chance to perform their klimarap facing each other while they were transported out to the festival in a sustainable green "disco-bus", which ran on biogas. In this way, participants were self-entertainment, while Henrik Milling kept the mood high among the disco-dancing and rapping bus passengers. 1 km from DTU the bus stopped opened its center doors for a small stage. Here three professional rappers jumped in and held – "Danish sustainable World of Rap." Shortly after arriving at the festival, the raps was repeated live in the danish radio program P3, which sent live spots from the festival.

Interaction with the audience through mobile technology

During the year before the festival five groups of students from DTU Informatics worked with mobile applications and new mobile technologies. The goal was to integrate the latest technology in an eventful activity at the festival and create an interactive show where festival participants attended by their mobile phone.

Graphics professionals worked with students to disseminate the technology in a fun, conceptual and pedagogical way. This turned into more interesting projects with future prospects. Projects that opened up to the festival guests through social interaction, games on the big screen and participation in on-site contests, could create new social networks within the festival’s universe.

At the festival’s small stage in the tent "Explore" the participants could play innovative interaction gaming on a large screen by controlling the mobile phone over their own movements. Previews focussed on how to get rid of polluting cars by choosing environmentally friendly transportation that could be racing with eco-cars – and you could recycle garbage so that it becomes a resource instead of waste.
  
"Festival Experience Sharing" called festival guests to create a profile at the festival’s info-stand. Here one could upload photos and quotes that were displayed on a large screen. In this way, many festival guests shared their experiences with each other, and experiences could be saved for after the festival as well. CO2PENHAGEN had a good size for this pilot project and the idea is that it will subsequently be integrated into much larger festivals.

2D barcodes on the beer glass made it possible to use fewer beer glasses and even a fast service! In the festival bars you could buy three beers in one glass. When the glass was refilled, beers were "scanned by" the bar’s special mobile phones. 

Light installation by Hans E. Madsen 

The artist created a beautiful installation with energy-saving lights. A design with lights that painted a beautiful architectural image in the evening’s darkness and mediated through the beautiful art that an energy-saving future is far from boring or uninspired.

Light installation by students from DTU

By Katrine From, Jacob Drachmann, Tobias Øhrstrøm. Construction with low-energy light. The group made a design of fiber pipes with LED lights. Installation made beautiful images of "glowing light sticks" in the evening. All materials for the construction was carried by the students with public transportation to DTU.