All I need: Provoking Conflicts at the Boundaries of the Private and the Public Sphere in the context of Energy Sufficiency

Berlin, Den Haag, 2015

Authors: Florian Sametinger, Miriam Lahusen, Gesche Joost, Lars-Arvid Brischke

This paper describes development, use and benefits of participatory research and design methods within an interdisciplinary research project which focuses on energy sufficiency in domestic households. Special emphasis here lies on a gender-conscious care economy (see Brischke, et.al. 2014), since technical devices within a household are predominantly used for supply and provision tasks. Merely proposing the reduction of use of the devices would be hardly sufficient and possibly turn out to be at the expense of already disregarded care economy.