The Social Life of Energy
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Design anthropology: crafting the future of renewable energy
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Design anthropology: crafting the future of renewable energy

Today I talk with Abhigyan Singh from Delft Technical University. For his PhD research, which he concluded last year, he developed an approach he calls design anthropology. It is a way of catching the glimpse of a potential future - by building a prototype of it. Check out what he means by it and what it can mean for the energy sector in transition.

  • I covered Abhigyan’s research earlier, in this post:

    https://sociallifeofenergy.substack.com/p/where-does-the-power-of-community

  • The podcast mentions Rapid Rural Appraisal; check the Wikipedia page on it here:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_rural_appraisal

  • Check out Abhigyan’s page at TU-Delft here:

    https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ide/about-ide/people/singh-a/

Enjoy!

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