Theme 5

Talk: What is energy for? Understanding consumption, efficiency and demand, Elizabeth Shove

Posted on March 16, 2015

Sara Pasquier, from the IEA, invited Elizabeth to give an opening presentation to a two day workshop in Paris, launching a two year International Energy Agency programme of work on ‘energy efficiency and behaviour’.  As promised, the talk highlighted the dangers of focusing on energy efficiency (alone), challenged conventional methods of conceptualising behaviour, and argued for a more…

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Why room temperature needed to be taken down a notch

Posted on November 5, 2014

By Gordon Walker, Lancaster University Originally published in (more…)

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Talk: What do we really know about energy demand? Gordon Walker

Posted on July 31, 2014

Presentation by Gordon Walker on ‘What do we really know about demand?’ at PCEEE Conference (Portugal em Conferencia Para Uma Economica Energeticamente Eficiente), Lisbon, Portugal, 20 June 2014

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Compilation of Working Papers 4-15, Demanding Ideas

Posted on July 31, 2014

Compilation of all Working Papers presented at the workshop “Demanding ideas: where theories of practice might go next” held 18-20 June 2014 in Windermere, UK. The purpose of the event was to identify issues and topics that constitute ‘unfinished business’ for people interested in social theories of practice and in the relevance of such ideas for the DEMAND Research Centre.

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Working Paper 15: Harro van Lente, Demanding Ideas

Posted on July 30, 2014

Working Paper 15: Harro van Lente, August 2014 (more…)

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