Category Sustainability

Behavioral sciences, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

The potential of behavioural interventions for optimising energy use at home

Individuals and households can adopt a variety of measures to optimise their energy consumption, writes Elisabatta Cornago of the International Energy Agency. This article focuses on the potential for enhancing energy efficiency with policies and programmes designed to educate consumers and encourage them to alter their daily habits – without resorting to large-scale structural improvements.

Experientia
27 Jun 2021

Behavioral sciences, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

[Report] Behavioural insights for demand-side energy policy and programmes

During its first year of activity, the Behavioural Insights Platform of the UsersTCP, with the IEA (International Energy Agency), has developed an environment scan report assessing how behavioural insights have been applied to demand-side energy policy and programmes.

Experientia
27 Jun 2021

Ethnography, Health, Healthcare, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

Heidi Larson, vaccine anthropologist

Heidi Larson studies vaccine rumors—how they start, and why some flourish and others wither. Tackling misperceptions individually is like eliminating a single microbial strain: when one germ is gone, another will bloom. Instead, the entire ecosystem must be rehabilitated.

Experientia
14 Jun 2021

Cities & Infrastructure, Financial services, Health, Mobility, Research, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

Swiss Re Institute on how COVID-19 is transforming consumer behaviour

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing how we work, travel, communicate, shop and more, but which new habits are likely to stick permanently? The authors explore five key behavioural changes and their implications for risk and protection.

Experientia
2 Feb 2021

Architecture & Urban space, Asia, Cities & Infrastructure, Experientia, Jan-Christoph Zoels, Sustainability

Berlin exhibition features Experientia work

The exhibition, curated by ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, presents exemplary built projects and outstanding conceptual models by architects and planners from all over the world

Experientia
18 Jan 2021

Architecture & Urban space, Cities & Infrastructure, Innovation, Scenarios, Service design, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

[Essay] Helsinki Design Lab ten years later

A survey of Helsinki Design Lab's activities 2008-2013, with reflections on the three "bets" that the Lab made and their relevance today.

Experientia
30 Sep 2020

Behavioral sciences, Cities & Infrastructure, Participation, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

[Paper] Active consumer participation in smart energy systems

Designing energy services with a human-centered approach will allow us to rely on consumers not only as executors of changes in energy consumption, but also as providers of data.

Experientia
30 Sep 2020

Developing markets, Participation, Sustainability, Technology (general)

Lack of partnership with key community members causes ICT4D projects to fail

The main lesson is that even a nearly imperceptible deviation from the full inclusion of all relevant parties in every aspect of the project can result in large deviations from the expected outcomes

Experientia
25 Sep 2020

Book, Business, Innovation, Sustainability

[Book] The Innovation Delusion

The authors offer a compelling plan for how we can shift our focus away from the pursuit of growth at all costs, and back toward neglected activities like maintenance, care, and upkeep.

Experientia
10 Sep 2020

Book, Scenarios, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability, Technology (general)

[Book] Slow computing

Drawing on the ideas of the "slow movement", Slow Computing sets out numerous practical and political means to take back control and counter the more pernicious effects of living digital lives.

Experientia
10 Sep 2020

Book, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

[Book] Life After COVID-19: The Other Side of Crisis

Almost every aspect of society will change after the pandemic, but if we learn lessons then life can be better. Featuring expert authors from across academia and civil society, this book offers ideas that might put us on alternative paths for positive social change.

Experientia
17 Aug 2020

Book, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

[Book] Slowdown

Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling visualizations to illustrate how fertility rates, growth in GDP per person, and even the frequency of new social movements have all steadily declined over the last few generations.

Experientia
6 Jun 2020

Architecture & Urban space, Participation, Sustainability

Smart city visions and human rights

Without consideration for all humans inhabiting cities, smart city and technological approaches have the potential to exacerbate socio-economic divisions, corporate dominance, and top-down governance.

Experientia
3 Jun 2020

Foresight, Sustainability

Post Covid, our societies will likely be more value-oriented, local and green

The world after Corona will not be the same. When the corona wave has passed, our societies will likely be more value-oriented, local and green, writes Christian Bason of the Danish Design Centre.

Experientia
29 May 2020

Foresight, Scenarios, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

Covid-19, changing social practices and the transition to sustainable production and consumption

Covid-19, changing social practices and the transition to sustainable production and consumptionby Boons, F., Browne, A., Burgess, M., Ehgartner, U., Hirth, S., Hodson, M., Holmes, H.,Hoolohan, C., MacGregor, S., McMeekin, A., Mylan, J. Oncini, F., Paterson, M., RÃ¶dl, M.,Sharmina, M.,…

Experientia
26 May 2020

Health, Identity / Privacy, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

Covid-19 and Social Innovation: Contactless sociability and hybrid communities of place

While some optimists think there will be a lasting positive change in our well-being model, with the quality of relationships and common goods at its centre, Manzini argues that things are not necessary going in that direction. A confrontation is required.

Experientia
13 Apr 2020

Creativity, Culture, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

[Paper] The Imaginary Crisis

As the Covid-19 crisis hopefully comes slowly under control, we ought to attend to a very different kind of crisis, and one which is scarcely visible: the deteriorating state of our shared social imagination.

Experientia
9 Apr 2020

Health, Sustainability, Teens

Scrutinizing the effects of digital technology on mental health

Does time spent using digital technology and social media have an adverse effect on mental health, especially that of adolescents?

Experientia
15 Feb 2020

Culture, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

Three narratives that stymie social change and what we can do about it

Nat Kendall-Taylor studied nearly 40 different social issues and the cultural models people use to understand them. He found three cultural models that stymie social change, and three research-based messaging strategies that can help shift them.

Experientia
26 Jan 2020

Cities & Infrastructure, Sustainability, User research

Smart City Index that takes citizen engagement into account

A team of researchers from IMD in Switzerland and SUTD in Singapore put together the Smart City Index. For the first time, researchers attempted to assess people’s perceptions of technology – as opposed to the quality of the technology itself…

Experientia
10 Oct 2019