Everyday Echo
Personal work
Tomorrow’s energy will be renewable, intermittent, and limited. How might we adapt our everyday life to variable energy supplies?
Research question
Tomorrow’s energy will be renewable, intermittent, and limited. How might we adapt our everyday life to variable energy supplies?
The approach
‘Everyday Echo’ is a transition design study, narrating the potential of a collective approach to energy consumption in order to engage people with sustainable energy use.
This research looked at potential interventions to help individuals reconnect with the natural environment, the energy it produces, and the people who use it. Interventions are set in a speculative future - where electricity is limited and technology variable.
This research looked at potential interventions to help individuals reconnect with the natural environment, the energy it produces, and the people who use it. Interventions are set in a speculative future - where electricity is limited and technology variable.
Summary of the study
1 - Research and horizon scanning
This phase aimed at identifying existing conflicts between the energy sector and our everyday lives, as well as recent opportunities emerging from social studies.
Methods and activities:
- Behaviours mapping, asked participants to map their connection to heat and electricity across the week
- Interviews with energy and sustainability experts,to collect different perspectives of the system
- Market study, to understand the roles and relationships of stakeholders across the system
- Survey, to understand people’s perception of “comfort” in the home