iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rex Martin @rex-martin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We're seeking contributions that engage with creativity and transformation towards future energy systems 250 word abstracts due Mon 24th February Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1Lgzz...

drive.google.com

RGS-IBG 2025 session Future energy systems-embracing creativity in energy transformations.pdf

011

Rex Martin @rex-martin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🚨 CfP 🚨 Co-hosting an online / hybrid session for RGS-IBG on "Future energy systems-embracing creativity in energy transformations" at this year's @energygeography.bsky.social conference, with Anna Cain, @paulmunro.bsky.social, @shanilsam.bsky.social @miker66.bsky.social 1/2

163

Reposted by Rex Martin

Joe Rand @josephrand.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I put together a starter pack of energy social scientists (distinct from the existing 'climate social science' starter pack). So far it's a small but mighty list. Please collaborate to help build this out! 🔌💡 go.bsky.app/5zMF4Vx

5125

Rex Martin @rex-martin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A great collaboration with colleagues at Monash's Emerging Technologies Research Lab - Fareed Kaviani, Kari Dahlgren & Yidan Gao - with illustrations by Stacy Gougoulis #emergingtechlab Link to report and release: www.monash.edu/emerging-tec... 5/5

monash.edu

Household Energy Glossary release

010

Rex Martin @rex-martin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

And how do we think about Cost, and therefore ways to steer household energy demand? Do we think about cost solely in financial terms (left), or in a broader sense involving tradeoffs like time costs and emotional costs (right)? 4/5

110

Rex Martin @rex-martin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

For example: How does the energy sector understand Consumers? As rational, individual customers (left), or as connected communities (right)? 3/5

121

Rex Martin @rex-martin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The report aims to build understanding within the Australian energy sector and to bridge the communication gap between the sector and everyday people. We use illustrations to explore different framings of key ideas & to contrast who/what is included in differing visions of the energy system 2/5

110

Rex Martin @rex-martin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

New report 🚨: in the Household Energy Glossary we explore 4 concepts central to Australia’s energy transition – Consumers, Concessions, Cost, Control – where differing perspectives and miscommunication between stakeholders pose challenges for cooperation on key issues 1/5

212

Rex Martin @rex-martin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

We find embodied & experiential forms of knowledge importantly yet differently shape heating/cooling, & the use of smart tech. Recognising that practical knowledge contextualises & operationalises technical skills/tools, we argue the sector must better account for lay capacities

000

Rex Martin @rex-martin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Fieldwork was conducted in Copenhagen, DK & Canberra, AU with households using smart comfort & energy tech. Despite differences between the field sites, our cross-national analysis shows an important overlap in the way people use lay understandings to pursue comfort at home 2/3

100

Rex Martin @rex-martin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Thrilled to share new research published in #ERSS with Simon PAK Larsen. Placing research from Denmark & Australia in conversation, we explore the practical knowledge households draw on as they heat and cool their homes Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629623004498 1/3

sciencedirect.com

100

Rex Martin @rex-martin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

We consider how conventional and non-energy forms of feedback are often used in combination in everyday life, and conclude by exploring novel feedback concepts that engage households on their own terms 2/2 Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629624001518

sciencedirect.com

Non-energy feedback: The unseen impacts of sensory, social, material and systemic feedback on household energy demand

Energy feedback is a central plank in demand management interventions aiming to reduce the quantity or shift the timing of domestic energy use – chang…

000

Rex Martin @rex-martin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

New(ish) research published in #ERSS with the terrific Yolande Strengers where we propose the concept of 'non-energy feedback' to examine how data not directly about energy still shapes it's use. Specifically we explore sensory, social, material and systemic forms of non-energy feedback 1/2

153