Title: A Changemaker’s Guide to the Energy Transition. Citizens designing change one step at a time
Authors: BinBin Pearce (Delft University of Technology), Benoît Verhulst (Missions Publiques), Erwan Dagorne (Missions Publiques), Nely Gamez Mokay (Delft University of Technology), Vanja Djinlev (ETH Zurich)
Design: Agata Smok
This playbook aims to take you step by step to design, implement and reflect on an initiative of your own related to the energy transition.
Where does this playbook come from?
This playbook is the outcome of helping citizens develop their own community energy initiatives. The approaches used in the playbook are based on an online programme, called the ENCLUDE Academy, developed as a part of the research project called ENCLUDE, as well as methods that have been used with more than 1,500 Bachelor and Masters students in Europe.
Why should we talk about energy?
Energy should not and cannot be limited to a technical or an environmental concern. It is one of the learnings we get from the ENCLUDE project: energy issues are another manifestation of the social situation people face and/or intend to improve. In the Academy, we heard people using ownership of energy as a means to balance the gender gap, to live more in autonomy (and not depend on the state will) or to provide energy, as a way to pollute less and not harm their environment.
The newest ENCLUDE Academy Playbook explores the concept of #EnergyCitizenship and how people tend to position themselves towards the energy question. Within ENCLUDE project, BinBin Jiang Pearce (Delft University of Technology), Benoît Verhulst (Missions Publiques), Erwan Dagorne (Missions Publiques), Nely Gámez Mokay (Delft University of Technology) and Vanja Djinlev (ETH Zürich) ran an academy to support fellows willing to develop an energy community project.
This playbook is developed based on the learnings they had and it is also a guide addressed to you, augmented with the real-life experiences of the academy.
Energy has become a hot topic. Because of the environmental transition, of the geopolitical troubles or the objective of being more autonomous. The reasons to talk about energy are multiple. It concerns state, companies but more and more common citizens. You may not be concerned or interested by this topic, you are still affected by it.
BinBin Jiang PearceBinBin Jiang Pearce, Assistant Professor of Policy Analysis and Design at TU Delft
“A big thanks to Agata Smok for helping us to communicate ideas that are not always easy to communicate. Designing in complexity is about the heart as much as it is about the head. Great visuals help us to bridge the divide.”
ENCLUDE Academy Playbook explores the concept of energy citizenship and how people tend to position themselves towards the energy question. Within ENCLUDE project, we ran an academy to support fellows willing to develop an energy community project. This playbook is developed based on the learnings we had in this project and on the lesson learned from running the academy. It is so a guide addressed to you, augmented with the real-life experiences of the academy.
Energy has become a hot topic. Because of the environmental transition, of the geopolitical troubles or the objective of being more autonomous. The reasons to talk about energy are multiple. It concerns state, companies but more and more common citizens. You may not be concerned or interested by this topic, you are still affected by it.
Nely Mokay, PhD Candidate at TU Delft | Energy Citizenship and Inclusive energy transition | ENCLUDE project