Storymaking in sustainable energy systems research
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Exploring the multimodal methodology developed on the Energy Biographies project at Cardiff University for investigating how the stories people tell about their everyday energy use can help us understand the opportunities for and obstacles to transforming energy systems.
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This document summarizes an academic presentation on the Energy Biographies project, which examines peoples' knowledge and competencies regarding sustainable energy practices. The project uses qualitative longitudinal methods to study four case sites in the UK. Interviews with 68 participants in the first phase explored which knowledges and competencies people demonstrate around sustainable practices. The data shows that people often feel uncertain about what constitutes truly sustainable actions and question whether their current practices are sufficient. This uncertainty arises from complex connections between the meanings, materials, and skills involved in sustainable behaviors.
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How energy matters: energy biographies, ethics and the texture of everyday life
While energy consumption is necessary to support people’s everyday lives in a material and instrumental sense, the ways in which energy is used are also constitutive of ways of life and of identities. The Energy Biographies project at Cardiff University has used biographical narrative interviews and multimodal methods across four case sites in the UK to investigate this constitutive meaning of energy consumption, and its implications for attempts to reduce energy demand.
Our data demonstrates the importance of emotional attachments to practices and technologies that consume energy, and the ways in which these attachments support valued identities, particularly when people undergo difficult lifecourse transitions. We show how a biographical approach can help us appreciate the ways in which ethical and moral conflicts emerge out of everyday energy consumption, not just around the priorities accorded to different values (like convenience, cost, comfort and luxury) but around what are in effect competing ethical frameworks used by people to guide them in balancing their attachments, and thus in determining how to use energy (including e.g. caring commitments to others, the costs and benefits of using energy, the plurality of values that make up a ‘good life’, or deontological rules). We thus show how qualitative biographical approaches can reveal the ethical investments and conflicts that are embedded in the thick texture of everyday life, and how the ethical significance of energy in the everyday lies in the diverse ways in which it comes to matter to us through the lifecourse.
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3) While the targets focused on measurable outcomes, residents highlighted wider personal and social impacts like inspiring visitors and contributing to community. Smart technology was seen as a way to better manage resources and appeal to more people.
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- 1. Storymaking in sustainable energy systems research Professor Karen Henwood (Social Sciences, Cardiff, UK) Storymaking Symposium, Liverpool Screen School, Liverpool, 11 November 2016
- 2. Making knowledge through stories: social science & the arts • Traditional division of labour: researchers produce knowledge, arts helps communicate it • Alternative model: arts practitioners & researchers as knowledge intermediaries Peat Leith and Frank Vanclay (2015) “Translating science to benefit diverse publics: engagement pathways for linking climate risk, uncertainty and agricultural identities”. Science Technology and Human Values (40(6) 939-964
- 3. The value of storymaking for research: three projects • Making Sense of Sustainability – Environmental Futures Dialogue (AHRC Connected Communities, 2013-14 - an arts-social science network) • Energy Biographies (ESRC/EPSRC 2011-16) (www.energybiographies.org) • Flexis (Wales European Funding Office Structural Funds – WEFO, 2015-2020)
- 4. Obliquity and creating data • Environmental Futures Dialogue project – how to talk about big, difficult issues like sustainability? • Worked with arts colleagues to create spaces, situations and objects to think with (Heim, 2004) • The importance of ‘cultural probes’ - using material objects and obliquely- related tasks • Convivial spaces alive to the unexpected • Sought to inspire stories, enhancing data elicitation Examples of cultural probes
- 5. Energy Biographies study (EBs)… • Energy policy and research all about making stories –stories of big and small transitions • EBs approach: asks ‘can biographical stories tell us about the complexities of change?’ & makes visible the intangibility of energy usage in everyday life? • 3 waves of multimodal engagement with participants over one year (2012-3) ▫ Participant photography of everyday energy use ▫ Viewing films of energy futures and the everyday
- 7. Obliquity - multimodality Cos we love being outside, we just love that you can you know go, we were sitting out there one evening … it was like midnight and you could have a drink outside still and it’s so lovely here cos it’s so quiet and everything so but you wouldn’t have been able to do it without that so or you would have been freezing. So that’s our kind of, we know it’s really bad but we’re still going to use it. (Lucy)
- 8. Obliquity - multimodality Definitely no way I would have a car in fifteen years … I don’t foresee the car playing anything but a tiny part of my life. No more building … perhaps just a bit of kind of maintenance you know… I mean I suspect that there will still be a degree of kind of internet communication and computer work but I’m not clear on quite what form that would take … I mean in fifteen years I expect that you know this will be a huge kind of ecovillage … with all the elements necessary for self-reliance completely established and up and running so you know a good bakery, a good pub scene, you know good social networks going on, really diverse production covering just about everything you could want, yeah. (Peter)
- 9. Obliquity - multimodality I mean I’m fascinated by all this, these interviews act like a mirror you know and so I think that my reaction to the indoor garden was because it was still linked to life, to green things, a connection to the biological reality of being a human being. Whereas I thought the IT leisure stuff depicted in those, in that home I think its dehumanising and it takes human beings away from nature … but I’ve lived long enough to understand that you know the bell curve of human behaviour is such that there’s always going to be some people who would happily, totally immerse themselves in a non-biological totally technological world and be very happy and fair enough. I suppose in the future there will still be people who renounce all the technology even though it’s available … So like I think that that is a pretty neat illustration of the, the future it’ll be this kind of mishmash of and where the technology is hidden people like me can pretend that they’re living in a natural state but in reality the technology will be there. (Jonathan)
- 10. Energy Biographies are stories of change
- 11. A Sense of Energy (Hackney Wick/The Senedd, Cardiff Bay, June & October 2014)
- 12. Re-using the exhibits • ‘Monster Confidence’ event aimed at encouraging young women into STEM organised by Stemettes Photos courtesy of Stemettes
- 13. Flexis (Flexible, Integrated Energy Systems) • Engineering-social science research consortium in Wales • Demonstrator sites in Port Talbot, centring on Tata Steel, and surrounding region • Revisiting “stories of change” to understand potential social impacts of energy system transitions • Socio-technical focus – expert imaginaries and effects of interventions in everyday homes, plus siting/risk controversies
- 14. Flexis & obliquity • Planning range of multimodal storymaking research strategies • First example: expert interviews • Eliciting personal as well as professional perspectives on the future
- 15. Final remarks: storymaking & questions for social science & the arts 1. How to bring together social science & arts to stage ‘convivial’ research encounters to create knowledge? 2. Can their collaborative work be developed to enliven engagement with research? 3. What role does obliquity play in making it possible to tell ‘difficult’ stories? 4. How can the arts bring materiality into social science, making tangible the intangible (e.g. everyday life and its dependencies, assumptions about the future?)
- 16. To read end of award report: • http://energybiographies.org/newsblog/energy- biographies-final-report-available/
- 17. EB’s design and methodology … • Shirani, F., Parkhill, K., Butler, C., Groves, C., Pidgeon, N. and Henwood, K. (2016) Asking about the future: Methodological insights from energy biographies, International Journal of Social Research Methodologies, .19 (4) 429-444 DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2015.1029208 • Henwood, K., Shirani, F. and Groves, C.(in press). Using photographs in interviews: When we lack the words to say what practice means. To appear in U. Flick (ed) The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection London: Sage
- 18. Thank you for listening Contact: henwoodk@Cardiff.ac.uk Flexis Social Sciences, Research Team Dr Chris Groves Dr Fiona Shirani Professor Nick Pidgeon