Sensing the Air and Experimenting with Environmental Citizenship
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This document discusses citizen sensing and monitoring of environments. It presents several projects that allow citizens to monitor air quality including the London Air mobile app, environmental monitoring Arduino kits, and air quality monitoring devices attached to street sweepers, robotic dogs, pigeons, and eggs. The goal is to experiment with environmental citizenship and materialize data through do-it-yourself sensing devices. The research is funded by a European Research Council grant for a project called "Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice".
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SOCIAL ACCEPTABILITY & RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF ENERGY SYSTEMS
.Understanding the whole energy system of the future involves us
i) working in a shared socio-technical “problem space” encompassing what is considered to be:
Possible/plausible and desirable
We are mapping this out (our “issues space”)
Engaging with publics/ideas about imagined futures
ii) Understanding diverse impacts of dynamic changes arising on daily life, the lifecourse, and emergent socio-technical/systems
Smart - as an emergent (socio-technical & socio-cultural) systems dynamic - will impact in ways that matter greatly to people– raising non-trivial research issues
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The problem of how to make the transition to a more environmentally and socially sustainable society poses questions about how such far - reaching social change can be brought about. In recent years, lifecourse transitions have been identified by a range of researchers as opportunities for policy and other actors to intervene to change how individuals use energy, taking advantage of such disruptive transitions to encourage individuals to be reflexive towards their lifestyles and how they use the technological infrastructures on which they rely. Such identifications, however, employ narratives of voluntary change which take an overly optimistic change of how individuals experience lifecourse transitions, and ignore effects of experiences of unresolved or unsucc essful transitions. Drawing on narrative interview data from the Energy Biographies project based at Cardiff University, we explore three case studies where effects of such unresolved transitions are significant. Using the concept of liminal transition as developed by Victor Turner, we examine instances where ‘progressive’ master narratives of energy use reduction clash with other ‘narrative genres’ which individuals use to make sense of change, based on experiences of transition. These clashes show how nar ratives which view lifecourse transitions as opportunities ignore the challenges that such transitions may pose to individual identity and thereby to interventions which position individuals as agents responsible for driving change
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