Project information
Project manager
Eric Snodgrass, Linnaeus University
Other project members
Daniel Gustafsson, Linnaeus University Miranda Moss, Independent artist and researcher Helen V. Pritchard, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Participating organizations
Linnaeus University, Plymouth University, Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Financier
The Swedish Energy Agency - Energimyndigheten (MESAM - Människa, Energisystem, Samhälle)
Timetable
1 August 2021 - 31 jul 2024
Subject
Design (Department of Design, Faculty of Arts and Humanities)
Website
https://regenerative-energy-communities.org/
More about the project
Regenerative Energy Communities explores how current energy paradigms can be challenged and remade by energy approaches working with agroecology and regenerative agriculture’s commitment of not only maintaining but actively empowering the health and resilience of local ecosystems and the communities connected by them.
The project engages members of the public interested in the crucial problems of contemporary energy practices through creative, community-inspired experiments with alternative approaches to energy provision. This included local farmers, growers and energy enthusiasts, as well as anyone interested in collectively exploring what possible forms a regenerative energy practice might take.
A guiding question for the work of the project is how can we make space for communities to feel that both food (farming) and energy (electricity + electronics) are not something that is done to us, but that we do? Through a series of workshops, energy and agriculture open lab workshops, talks, publications and free to replicate small-scale regenerative prototypes, we collectively experiment with and share a range of regenerative energy practices, concepts and propositions for energy approaches in support of just socioecological transformation.
