
Loove BromsSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING · STRATEGIC SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES
Loove Broms
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This book is about the design of urban living environments and how design can provide more sustainable ways of living. The book comes out of two larger research projects – Sensing Energy and Beyond Efficiency – both of which made use of speculative design as a way of exploring possible alternatives to contemporary ways of conceptualising urban sust...
This article approaches urban ethics through critically examining the production and reproduction of an eco-modern socio-technical imaginary of sustainable urban development in Sweden, and the conditions and obstacles this poses for a just transformation. We see that notions of ecological modernization re-present problems of urban sustainability in...
There is a lack of futures studies addressing consumption and lifestyles at the level of everyday life. This article reports on the transformation of the policy-orienting scenario “Legato”, developed by the Swedish Energy Agency in 2016, to a practice-oriented design speculation. The article describes the process of transformation and the resulting...
We need to transition our society in a more sustainable direction, for example through enormous cut-downs in carbon emissions. Yet this future is hard to envision and work towards. In this project we have, with a transition design posture, designed tools that we believe can be useful to initiate dialogues and reflections on the future. In particula...
We must accept the present reality – only thereby do we have the possibility to understand it, relate to it to influence it and create culture that is a flexible tool for the transition.
This is the opening paragraph of "Vitiden - an energy fiction"* where the transition to a more sustainable society is explored through interacting text and image....
The artificial world is part of an on-going negotiation of meaning, manifesting in social practice. From a sustainability perspective it is thus important to critically examine what norms are imprinted into the artificial, as well as to imagine, materialize and suggest artefacts that could afford more sustainable stories and practices to form. The...
People’s domestic habits are increasingly being targeted to reduce levels of CO2 emissions. Whereas domestic energy consumption has received a lot of attention with several reported studies on sustainable practices, there are very few studies on workplace practices. Nevertheless, these are considered as having much potential for reducing energy con...
This paper explores the border between technology and design (form giving) from a feminist perspective. Looking at the energy system and how it has been integrated in the household, we want to address the underlying structures that have been built into the ecology of electrical appliances used in daily life, preserving certain norms that could be q...
Introduction There is no silver bullet to solve ecological problems, nor any single answer to how people should live — and yet, we must seek new ways to think and act in light of environmental challenges. This is the issue at stake for design today. Design has historically been employed in service to expanding industrial production and consumer cul...
Introduction There is no silver bullet to solve ecological problems, nor any single answer to how people should live — and yet, we must seek new ways to think and act in light of environmental challenges. This is the issue at stake for design today. Design has historically been employed in service to expanding industrial production and consumer cul...
The EnergyLife mobile interface incorporates lessons from environmental psychology and feedback intervention to relay information from appliance sensors, offering a gaming environment that rewards users for decreased electricity consumption.
Increasing our knowledge of how design affects behaviour in the workplace has a large potential for reducing electricity consumption. This would be beneficial for the environment as well as for industry and society at large. In Western society energy use is hidden and for the great mass of consumers its consequences are poorly understood. In order...
Smart electricity meters and home displays are being installed in people's homes with the assumption that households will make the necessary efforts to reduce their electricity consumption. However, present solutions do not sufficiently account for the social implications of design. There is a potential for greater savings if we can better understa...
Increasing our knowledge of how design affects behaviour
in the workplace has a large potential for reducing
electricity consumption. This would be beneficial for the
environment as well as for industry and society at large. In
Western society energy use is hidden and for the great mass
of consumers its consequences are poorly understood. In
order...
New interfaces to the energy system can facilitate changes of habits and provide means to control the household's use of energy. In this paper, we look at energy use and such interfaces in the home from a socio-technical perspective. We describe how interviews and user observations can be used in combination with the theory of domestication to info...