Description
Experts from the housing, energy, infrastructure and digital futures as well as architecture and design sectors will be exploring the challenges and opportunities in household energy management (HEM) technologies’ interconnectedness with community energy demand [spatially, digitally and socially].Aims: The aim of this launch workshop is to provide an innovative dynamic approach to engaging stakeholders with how people manage energy in homes and what could be learnt from bees’ social organization and communication. Building on a growing interest in sustainable energy transitions and energy democracy, this workshops Hive format offers an accelerated approach for both communities and individuals to forge a new relationship with energy.
Project Background: GLOW is an EPSRC funded £586,000 ambitious multidisciplinary project inspired by bees’ social organisation and communication patterns, the project will provide a step change to energy management in the home.
Three housing communities will be participating in the project to identify the inefficiencies found between individual household energy in relation to community energy demand. A new computational system will be developed based on self-organisational pattern algorithms to facilitate and optimise energy behaviour in homes in a responsive, targeted and effective way.
Findings will benefit residents by enabling a user-oriented and evidence-based approach to managing home energy.
Housing developers and construction professionals will also gain a better understanding in how energy is used in homes and what socio-spatial configurations support targeted net zero design and development.
Energy policymakers will benefit from gaining novel insights and a rich evidence base that offers social and spatial knowledge, household behavioural patterns, and social responses to better inform a sustainable future in terms of energy demand management.
The GLOW project is led by Prof. Oliveira (University of Strathclyde) together with Assoc.Prof Chatzimichali, Dr Badarnah, Dr Barakat (UWE), Dr Atkins (University of Bristol) as well as Energy Systems Catapult, Energy Super Hub Oxford, SNUG, Bristol Housing Festival, Stride Treglown, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Purpose and Desire, Oxford Brookes University, Utah State University / Centre for Atmospheric and Space Sciences CASS and The University of Texas at Arlington.
Agenda
• 1100 -1130 Introductions and presentation by GLOW Team
• 1130 -1145 Dr Emma Melanie Morton, ‘A Social Innovation Approach to NetZero’[Dr Emma Morton is an Architect, within the Planning Department’s City Development, Plan Research & Development Team, at Glasgow City Council. Emma is leading on work to deliver Planning’s transition to Net Zero, with a particular focus on policy, guidance and skills development.]
• 11:45 -13:00 HIVE Challenges Matrix Workshop
| Period | 22 Mar 2022 |
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| Event type | Workshop |