29  September 2021 10-11:30am CET

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Fairer Futuring? Visualization and engagement with future food sharing scenarios

Anna Davies and Louise Fitzgerald, Geography, Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

We will introduce our motivations behind the development and visualisation of alternative future scenarios for urban food sharing derived from SHARECITY research. This is driven by 1) a desire to destabilize the view that futuringis an elite activity, led by industrialists or technologists rather than everyday citizens, and 2) a desire to explore novel means for engaging differently with policy makers -who play a key role in shaping food sharing practices -about the challenges and opportunities for sustainable food sharing. We will outline the pilot study we conducted in May with Transition year students in Dublin and set out our plan for wider engagement with young people and policy makers.

How to make energy futures relevant to everyday life? Personnas from the future

Orlane Moynat and Marlyne Sahakian, Sociology department, University of Geneva

Different scenarios exist for an energy transition in Switzerland, but these scenarios often include a rather techno-centered understanding of social change, and are not always relevant to citizens. We explain the methodological approach to unpacking scenarios and related assumptions, assessing tradeoffs through input output models, and translating all of this into our personas from the year 2030. The intention with the personas is not to represent ‘energy sufficiency’ as an individual act, but rather to create people from the future that citizens can relate to, and describe those personas as much as possible in reference to social practices. In 2022, the persons will be used in workshops with citizens to discuss the links between sufficiency and wellbeing in energy futures.