Editor’s choice
Editor’s choice
part of Citizen Science
Abstract: Retrofit is often seen as a technical fix to boost efficiency and cut emissions, yet it also reshapes social relations, skills, and material flows. This paper reframes retrofit as participatory design cultivating ecological citizenship, the shared capacity to learn, make, and care for ecological relations through the built environment. Drawing on three cases, The Wild House, Ag. Lab, and the Retrofit Community Champion project, we propose a framework and design implications to scale equitable, circular, neighbourhood-based retrofit.
The paper has been developed in collaboration with Rob Phillips, Royal College of Art.
Title Behavioural aspects of sustainable design systems
Date Tuesday 19 May
Time 08:45-09:45
Location Congress Hall Regusa
Project / The Ecological Citizen(s) project cultivates trans-disciplinary collaboration and research to enable a digital sustainable society for positive climate action.
Other publication / An ambitious initiative providing highly affordable housing in exchange for citizens making their communities healthier, greener, stronger and more joyful.
Other publication / Retrofitting can be about more than just energy efficiency; it can enhance nature connectedness, circularity and can heighten a sense of ecological citizenship.
Other publication / Introducing a new methodology for designers, technologists and citizens to engage with technologies in an ecologically interdependent world.
