Open this publication in new window or tab >>2023 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
Solarscape is a thesis on the phenomenology of the Solar – an experiential, relational, and critical approach to how humans and humanity world-with solar energy in its different forms and manifestations. Using solar panels as a central artefact of concern, I explore surrounding human and non-human relationships through situated individual and collaborative design practices: workshops, interviews, (auto)ethnography, to name a few. I offer six publications consisting of several qualitative design studies, compounding knowledge that deliberates on the thesis's main research question: How might the human experience play a role in the designing of situated solar futures? The thesis, composed through the poetics of knowledge production, culminates in a critical discussion of sustainable futures, the role of a solar designer, and ultimately, what it means to be human in the era of the Solar.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Luleå: Luleå University of Technology, 2023. p. 103
Series
Doctoral thesis / Luleå University of Technology 1 jan 1997 → …, ISSN 1402-1544
Keywords
design, architecture, solar energy, sustainability, socio-technical transition
National Category
Design Architecture Energy Systems
Research subject
Design
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-94889 (URN)978-91-8048-240-0 (ISBN)978-91-8048-241-7 (ISBN)
Public defence
2023-02-24, A1123, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, 09:00 (English)
Opponent
Supervisors
2022-12-192022-12-182025-02-24Bibliographically approved