Reflecting on the Design Dialogues

I went into this dialogue with very little expectation I hope to be able to start some conversations during my dialogues and was questioning if showing energy in such a way would potentially shift how some people viewed the energy used during the exhibit. My group was curious to see if it had any effect or if it was not clear enough. I worked together with Flora mostly to get the Arduino code to connect with Blender so that this part of the intervention was functioning. As we were continuing from intervention 2 I already knew a bit about how the code could function and what aspects played a role in the energy consumption of society.

Throughout the dialogues, I felt that this intervention led to meaningful conversations with various people. I was able to learn from how they experienced the design and also learned a bit more about encapsulated energy and how this could be incorporated into such a design. Next to that, I realized that the tree might be too vague and it would be interesting to see how perhaps AI could be incorporated along with personalized visuals.

Taking all the feedback I received throughout the intervention there are a few steps I wish to undertake within term 2. The first would be to research a bit more about which policies exist currently, how energy is being consumed by myself and others in Barcelona, what post-growth really entails, and finally how could we perhaps learn from other species regulating their energy daily. I feel that this project could help shift us to a more energy-efficient and conscious community in which energy poverty and uncertainty can be addressed.