Next week, 24-28 March, Energy Lives! is organising its first Infrastructural Citizen Week, an annual event to facilitate exchange and communication between local communities and project researchers.
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Next week, 24-28 March, Energy Lives! is organising its first Infrastructural Citizen Week, an annual event to facilitate exchange and communication between local communities and project researchers.
For 2025, the project focuses on the emotional and sensory experiences of and around energy transitions. Energy use and energy transitions are always also bodily encounters. In Aarhus, Gothenburg, and Stavanger, project partners invite citizens and locals to sensory energy walks with the aim to collectively explore how we can sense energy infrastructures and energy transitions.
Here is an overview of the planned activities:
In Aarhus, the Danish project team is organising two events. On Wednesday, 26 March, Hans Buhl from the Steno Museum will lead a guided energy tour through Aarhus University Park, with stops at key historical and contemporary sites related to energy consumption and the sustainability transition. The tour will highlight how energy use has evolved on campus, from past infrastructures to current efforts toward sustainability. This energy walk is followed by a workshop on sustainability open to all staff and students on Thursday, 27 March. The workshop will include discussions about sustainability transition on campus and a guided tour of the solar panels owned by the Aarhus University Energy Community and installed on the rooftop of one the university buildings. For more information as well as registration for the walk and the workshop, please consult AU’s website.
The Swedish project team at Chalmers University will follow traces of oil on their walk through the petrochemical port of Gothenburg. Organised together with the local Hembygdsförening, the group will explore the neighbourhood whose people, houses, and infrastructures have been shaped by the presence of the oil industry. The energy walk on Thursday, 27 March, is organised as a closed event; if you are interested, please get in touch with Nathalie Bergame (bergame[at]chalmers[dot]se).
In the oil capital of Norway, the project team in Stavanger wishes to bring attention to the embodied experiences in the meetings with energy infrastructures. The sensory energy walk on Wednesday, 26 March, will visit the new geothermal energy building at the University of Stavanger and follow energy infrastructures to a substation in Sørmarka. For more information as well as registration for the walk, please consult this website.
To learn more about our events during the Infrastructural Citizen Week, contact the respective local organizers or join us for one of our activities.