Dutch cities are increasingly vulnerable to heat stress and energy stress. At the same time, theses cities’ roofs make up huge areas that can be covered with local plants and solar panels, offering advantages such as increased biodiversity, cooling, isolation, and energy generation. To generate solutions, a symposium on sustainable green roofs will be organised at the Green Village (TU Delft) - the place to be for sustainable green innovations in the built environment.
This one-day symposium will include both plenary presentations and interactive workshops. It will present the design of an experimental sustainable green roof that combines native vegetation, solar panels, and circular principles at The Green Village. This green roof, implemented at The Green Village, is equipped with local plants from Dakbloemenweide and functions as a site for data collection in collaboration with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Twente, and Delft University of Technology, as part of a practical research project.
In workshops, participants share their needs and motivations for green roofs with solar panels. In these workshops, citizens, policy makers, innovators, business representatives and scientists co-create the ideal sustainable green roof. The results of these workshops will be used in two follow-up symposia in October 2025 and March 2026, where the scalability and governance for green roofs will be discussed.