Powering Future Societies – MKW
27 April, 2021, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Explore how future lifestyles will impact the electricity and tech industries.
How can understanding our social future improve electricity sector planning and shape Melbourne’s emerging technology?
Join researchers from Monash University’s Emerging Technologies Research Lab to investigate findings from their Digital Energy Futures (DEF) project. This project aims to understand and forecast changing digital lifestyle trends and social practices, and their impact on the future energy needs of Australian households.
Attendees to this live and online discussion will also be invited to take part in a future-visioning exercise, to unearth how Melburnians imagine their home’s future technology and energy needs.
This event is part of the Digital Energy Futures (DEF) project, a partnership between Monash University, the Australian Research Council, Ausgrid, AusNet Services and Energy Consumers Australia.
Event Speakers
Kari Dahlgren
Dr Kari Dahlgren is a social anthropologist interested in the ethical aspects of energy production and consumption in Australia. Kari will reveal the emerging digital energy future trends drawn from almost 200 residential energy consumers in in-depth research activities – making it the most extensive sociological study of energy demand and consumers’ energy futures conducted in Australia.
Larissa Nicholls
Dr Larissa Nicholls specialises in bringing deeper understandings of household practices and concerns into Australia’s ongoing policy debates about energy affordability, sustainability and reliability. Larissa will speak about how the Digital Energy Futures project accounts for different energy futures, visioning and diversity.
Sarah Pink
Professor Sarah Pink is a world-leading Design Anthropologist, known for her development of innovative digital, visual and sensory research and dissemination methodologies. She will discuss the research methods used to uncover the hopes and anxieties of everyday Australians.
Venue
- Cobblestone – 1 (Courtney)
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54 Courtney St
North Melbourne, VIC 3051 Australia + Google Map - Phone:
- (03) 9329 9966
