STATIC!
Increasing Energy Awareness in Everyday Life through Design
STATIC! is a research project at the Interactive Institute that investigates interaction and product design as a way of increasing our awareness of how we use energy in everyday life and how to stimulate changes in energy behaviour.
External website: https://www.tii.se/projects/static
Energy is an invisible and increasingly valuable resource. However, in the design of everyday domestic environments, buildings and products, electricity and energy use is not often made explicit. Wiring, electrical meters, outlets and batteries are hidden away in boxes, inside walls, in elegant products and in distant basements. In the STATIC! project, we consider energy as a design material. Through design, our goal is to empower people in their use of products by increasing the visibility of choices available to the consumer. Considering energy as a design problem from the point of view of human and personal experience, our approach is to examine design as a means for increasing the visibility – and choices available – of energy use in everyday life.
See a couple of our design results; Power Aware Cord, Flower Lamp
Collaborators:
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Göteborg Energi
Ludvig Svensson AB
Mälardalen University
School of Design and Crafts (HDK) at Göteborg University
Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID)
Swedish School of Textiles at the University College of Borås
STATIC! contact information:
Christina Öhman, christina.ohman@tii.se, +46 (0) 70-226 22 33
Sara Backlund, sara.backlund@tii.se, +46 (0) 730-66 20 36
