After exposing at Shanghai and Washington DC, Visual Voltage visited Brussels. More than 1500 visitors were informed about the utility of art and design to increase awareness about energy shortage and sustainability. Among the 350 guided visitors were Brussels secondary school pupils, and students in architecture, industrial design, and sciences from the universities in Brussels, Ghent and Antwerp. In addition, EFTA environmental specialists and the Swedish minister of Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth were guided and informed.
Questions were raised concerning the importance of prototypes, the sustainability of the exposed subjects themselves, and upcoming incentives and smart design objects to reward energy-saving behaviour or punish spillage. Furthermore, visitors debated their willingness to allow sustainability-related measures affect their daily life; the danger exists that people are concerned and aware, but choose not to care. Certainly, the discussion did not stop after visitors left the exposition at the Design Vlaanderen Gallery.