Title: Everyday Echo
Motivation: Tomorrow’s energy will be renewable, intermittent, and limited. How might we adapt our everyday life to variable energy supplies?
Outcome: Transition design study on energy futures focusing on home energy behaviours.
Motivation: Tomorrow’s energy will be renewable, intermittent, and limited. How might we adapt our everyday life to variable energy supplies?
Outcome: Transition design study on energy futures focusing on home energy behaviours.
Description:
‘Everyday Echo’ is a transition design study, highlighting 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.
‘Everyday Echo’ is a transition design study, highlighting 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.
The research is split in four projects:
- Today’s energy use
- Energy futures’ planning
- Fiction 2038
- eCo, an in-home product
Project video
Today’s energy use
This phase aimed at identifying existing conflicts between the energy sector and our everyday lives, as well as recent opportunities emerging from social studies.
Through market study and consumer analysis, have been identified design opportunities to drive behavioral change.
Through market study and consumer analysis, have been identified design opportunities to drive behavioral change.
Energy futures’ planning
Through a future-oriented approach, scenarios have been developped using speculative and participatory methods, informed by current policies and behavioral trends.
During a co-creative workshop, radical narratives were tested to transfer the future scenarios at an individual and emotional level.
During a co-creative workshop, radical narratives were tested to transfer the future scenarios at an individual and emotional level.
Fiction 2038
eCo
‘eCo’ is an in-home product facilitating the management of energy supply among a community of neighbors.
The product is linked to an online platform, and provides information on a single household’s energy consumption, its local community's consumption, and energy supply status. ‘eCo’ is designed for the near future, in a scenario where households in the same neighborhood share a certain energy allowance monthly.
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The product is linked to an online platform, and provides information on a single household’s energy consumption, its local community's consumption, and energy supply status. ‘eCo’ is designed for the near future, in a scenario where households in the same neighborhood share a certain energy allowance monthly.
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