Energy Babble
This is the story of a set of computational devices called Energy Babbles. The product of a collaboration between designers and STS researchers, Energy Babbles are like automated talk radios obsessed with energy. Synthesised voices, punctuated by occasional jingles, recount energy policy announcemen...
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| author | Kerridge, Tobie Michael, Mike Moline, Katherine Ovalle, Liliana Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew Wilkie, Alex Boucher, Andy |
| author_browse | Boucher, Andy Kerridge, Tobie Michael, Mike Moline, Katherine Ovalle, Liliana Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew Wilkie, Alex |
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| description | This is the story of a set of computational devices called Energy Babbles. The product of a collaboration between designers and STS researchers, Energy Babbles are like automated talk radios obsessed with energy. Synthesised voices, punctuated by occasional jingles, recount energy policy announcements, remarks about energy conservation made on social media, information about current energy demand and production, and comments entered by other Babble users. Developed for members of UK community groups working to promote sustainable energy practices, the Energy Babbles were designed to reflect the complex situations they navigate, to provide information and encourage communication, and to help shed light on their engagements with energy policy and practice. This book tells the story of the Babbles from a mix of design and STS perspectives, suggesting how design may benefit from the perspectives of STS, and how STS may take an interventionist, design-led approach to the study of emerging technological issues. Chapters Energy Babble is organised into three main sections – Framing, Designing, and Circulating – that trace the story of how a team of design and STS researchers made and deployed a set of computational devices to UK–based community groups. The book is introduced by way of a preface and introduction and contains subsections that describe the various ways in which the research into local energy practices was conducted. Katherine Moline provides a reflection on her three-year experience of curating exhibitions that features the Energy Babble device and the book comes to a close with an Afterword by Bill Gaver. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1709852026-01-20T05:07:32Z Energy Babble Kerridge, Tobie Michael, Mike Moline, Katherine Ovalle, Liliana Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew Wilkie, Alex Boucher, Andy Industrial / commercial art and design Product design Social theory thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AK Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AK Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration::AKP Product design thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory This is the story of a set of computational devices called Energy Babbles. The product of a collaboration between designers and STS researchers, Energy Babbles are like automated talk radios obsessed with energy. Synthesised voices, punctuated by occasional jingles, recount energy policy announcements, remarks about energy conservation made on social media, information about current energy demand and production, and comments entered by other Babble users. Developed for members of UK community groups working to promote sustainable energy practices, the Energy Babbles were designed to reflect the complex situations they navigate, to provide information and encourage communication, and to help shed light on their engagements with energy policy and practice. This book tells the story of the Babbles from a mix of design and STS perspectives, suggesting how design may benefit from the perspectives of STS, and how STS may take an interventionist, design-led approach to the study of emerging technological issues. Chapters Energy Babble is organised into three main sections – Framing, Designing, and Circulating – that trace the story of how a team of design and STS researchers made and deployed a set of computational devices to UK–based community groups. The book is introduced by way of a preface and introduction and contains subsections that describe the various ways in which the research into local energy practices was conducted. Katherine Moline provides a reflection on her three-year experience of curating exhibitions that features the Energy Babble device and the book comes to a close with an Afterword by Bill Gaver. 2026-01-20T05:07:31Z 2026-01-20T05:07:31Z 2026-01-19T08:17:34Z 2018 book ONIX_20260113T144613_9780995527737_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109735 9780995527737 9780995527720 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/170985 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109735/1/9780995527737.pdf Mattering Press Mattering Press 10.28938/9780995527720 10.28938/9780995527720 cc75b5a6-8f3f-4412-bf4e-26e8d3b68bf0 9780995527737 9780995527720 Mattering Press 152 Manchester, UK open access |
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