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A. Singh

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Building a sustainable future together

Co-creating the local energy transition in Venserpolder

This booklet describes the outcomes of four years of research and co-creation in the Venserpolder neighborhood. This research was done as part of the Local Inclusive Future Energy (LIFE) project. The LIFE project ran from 2021 to 2025 and was a collaboration between research inst ...

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Co-creatie in de lokale energietransitie in Venserpolder

Dit boekje beschrijft de uitkomsten van 4 jaar onderzoek en bewonersparticipatie in de wijk Venserpolder. Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd als onderdeel van het Local Inclusive Future Energy (LIFE) project. Het LIFE project duurde van 2021 tot 2025, en was een samenwerking tussen onde ...

Aanbevelingen voor een inclusieve lokale energietransitie

Omgaan met uitdagingen van participatie, macht en wederkerigheid

Deze brochure bevat een set aanbevelingen over hoe projecten in de energietransitie op een meer inclusieve manier georganiseerd kunnen worden. Deze aanbevelingen zijn bedoeld voor iedereen die actief is in de lokale energietransitie en sterkere samenwerkingen wil creëren tussen b ...

Recommendations for an inclusive local energy transition

Responding to challenges of participation, power, and Responding to challenges of participation, power, and reciprocity

This brochure provides a set of recommendations for how to organize energy transition projects in a more inclusive way. These recommendations are meant for anyone working in the local energy transition who wants to build stronger collaborations between residents, municipalities, ...

Design anthropology for ethics of care and emergence:

Reflections from an energy transition project

This paper describes a design anthropology approach toward design ethics, which understands design ethics in a relational and emergent manner. We characterize how ethical issues and judgments emerge from the continuous stream of social interactions, collaborations, and relations ...
Addressing global challenges, such as achieving an inclusive energy transition, involves navigating through prevalent ideologies and interconnected infrastructures that advocate specific ways of engaging with the world. However, these dominant ideologies and infrastructures can i ...

Towards Design Fiction for Human-Centered Energy Transitions

Imagining Infrastructures and Worldbuilding

This article proposes to support human-centered energy transitions through design fiction. Design fiction is conceptualized as a form of worldbuilding in the sense that design fiction not only represents alternative realities but also intervenes in the processes of their emergenc ...
Schools, as dynamic microcosms, house diverse members with unique roles, capabilities, and perspectives, influencing and being influenced by local contexts. However, their role in neighbourhood energy transitions is often overlooked. Greengage addresses this gap, offering a trans ...
This article critiques the prevailing North-South divide within the discourse on decolonizing design, recognizing its historical significance while exposing its limitations in advancing decolonial agendas. The uncritical adoption of this dichotomy often leads to oversimplificatio ...

Local Frictions in the Energy Transition

Design Anthropology for the Emergence of Energy Communities

Critical challenges in energy transitions are social and cultural – not just technical and economic. This paper shares research in an interdisciplinary consortium developing an innovative smart energy system, and demonstrates the value of ethnography in supporting energy transiti ...

A systemic framework of energy efficiency in schools

Experiences from six European countries

Schools are complex physical and social institutions within national education systems. They account for significant energy consumption and like other buildings can demonstrate inefficient patterns of energy use. Poor energy performance of educational facilities is an intricate i ...

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A systemic framework of energy efficiency in schools: experiences from six European countries (Energy Efficiency, (2023), 16, 4, (21), 10.1007/s12053-023-10099-4)

The original version of the article does not contain information about the funding of the research. The text below can be added to the existing text in relation to funding. ENERGE is an Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) project, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund ...

Constructing an inclusive vision of sustainable transition to decentralised energy

Local practices, knowledge, values and narratives in the case of community-managed grids in rural India

This chapter claims that the global North’s vision of sustainable energy transition (SET), which informs policies and infrastructure developments, holds a partial account of diverse energy-related practices and associated values that are endemic to local communities. Referring to ...
In recent years, numerous studies have explored the opportunities and challenges for emerging decentralized energy systems and business models. However, few studies have focussed specifically on the economic and social value associated with three emerging models: peer-to-peer ene ...

Guidelines for the design of digital knowledge

Empowering Bangladeshi communities to improve their water safety

Bangladesh has the largest proportion of people exposed to arsenic contamination in water. Studies have shown that awareness campaigns have positively influenced communities regarding their choice of safe water sources. In order to reach and engage communities in adopting safe wa ...

Envisioning ‘anthropology through design’

A design interventionist approach to generate anthropological knowledge

The literature on Design Anthropology (DA) is skewed towards discussion exploring anthropology's potential for design. In contrast, discourse on how design can contribute to anthropology is somewhat limited. This article proposes an ‘Anthropology through Design’ (AtD) approach by ...
With the growth of decentralized, off-grid, and distributed renewable energy systems across the globe, an arena for energy exchanges between households is opening up. As compared to traditional ‘centralized’ energy supply systems, in these emerging energy systems households are i ...

EthnoVis

Developing an interactive visualization as a designerly tool and process of longitudinal data analysis and communication

In this paper, we report on an interactive visualization that served multiple purposes and diverse roles in a research-through-design (RtD) study. The visualization is part of the study on the sociocultural factors that shape energy exchanges between households. It showcases an e ...

Exploring peer-to-peer returns in off-grid renewable energy systems in rural India

An anthropological perspective on local energy sharing and trading

Within the areas of distributed, off-grid, and decentralized energy, there is a growing interest in local energy exchanges. A crucial component of an energy exchange is a return provided by an energy-receiver to an energy-giver for the energy provided. The existing energy literat ...

Reconfiguring Mobile Media Assemblages

Download Cultures and Translocal Flows of Affective Platforms

Memory cards are flash memory devices that enable storage and circulation of music in audio and video formats. In some regions in Asia, the bandwidth to stream musical content is unavailable, and people go to ‘download vendors’, who add content to their memory cards. We investiga ...