Communergy: DesignCamp 2011 in Kolding, Denmark

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This team project with Tenna Jacobsen, Mette Nielsen, Vaibhav Pawar, Steph Steele, and Timo de Winter was done for the International DesignCamp 2011 hosted by the Kolding School of Design in Denmark. The camp invites students from a broad range of international backgrounds and design disciplines to work together on design problems. This years theme was “From intangible to tangible. From tangible to wonderful.” focused on the problem of electricity consumption.

The question that our group tried to answer was, “How might we create a physical connection between people and their electricity in order to make renewable energy usage a personal and shared value?” We tackled this by creating a multifaceted campaign in the home and community to get people to work together to invest in renewable energy technology. We determined that:

“If people take ownership of their electricity, it becomes as much value to them as any tangible product. If communities take ownership of their electricity, making changes in existing systems becomes everyone’s value.” 

community + energy = communergy