Design for a Socially Engaged Energy Efficiency in the Sustainable City

Last changed: 03 April 2023

In this project we investigated how the concept of energy efficiency can be further developed in relation to the everyday habits encouraged by the design of the built environment.

How energy efficiency has been expressed in the past sustainability efforts and how these aspirations could be better implemented in future environments for sustainable habits in relation to the technical progress made possible? We analyzed several areas which differ in character in terms of for example degree of "completion" and residents' socio-economic status. The project's interdisciplinary research team produced concrete design proposals on objects and environments with a focus on the physical form that examined how people to a higher extent could be encouraged to live sustainably with a focus on how we produce, use and relate to energy in everyday life.

The project was a cooperation with Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, KTH.

Facts:

Project leader

Loove Broms, Researcher, Swedish Royal Institute of Tehnology, KTH - Strategic Sustainability Studies, +4687907398
Read more on Loove Broms' presentation web page
Send an e-mail to: loove@kth.se

Project participants

Josefin Wangel, Associate Professor, Researcher, Division of Landscape Architecture, SLU

Jonas Runberger, Artistic Professor, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural Theory and Methods
Read more on Jonas Runberger's presentation web page
Send an e-mail to: jonas.runberger@chalmers.se

Karin Ehrnberger, Researcher, Swedish Royal Institute of Tehnology, KTH - Strategic Sustainability Studies, +4687908643
Send an e-mail to: karin.ehrnberger@abe.kth.se.

Miriam Börjesson Rivera, Researcher, Swedish Royal Institute of Tehnology, KTH - Strategic Sustainability Studies, +4687909168
Send an e-mail to: miriam.rivera@abe.kth.se

Camilla Andersson, Doctoral Candidate, Aalto University - Department of Design, Helsinki Finland