Rome, September 2024 – on-going. Aiming with the search for tools and methods to make a Positive Energy Neighborhood, the reduction of consumption is one of the primary concerns. In an energy-unbalanced context like Ostiense, where energy consumption far exceeds production capacity, it is necessary to understand who consumes energy, how, and, most importantly, why so much energy is used.
To achieve these questions, the research team has launched a survey campaign with tenants, conducted within domestic spaces, to visualise energy consumption focusing not only on quantities but also on qualities. With the support of models and drawings, the interviews have helped map and define all the energy-consuming devices inside apartments, detailing their use and efficiency levels. This approach has also led to the qualification and spatialization of energy practices, particularly those related to indoor comfort management.
PED4ALL team in Italy has launched a survey campaign with tenants, conducted within domestic spaces, to visualise energy consumption focusing not only on quantities but also on qualities.
The interview sample was selected based on the socio-cultural profile of the tenants and on the morphological and climatic characteristics of their apartments and the urban configuration. The ongoing interviews have revealed a deep interdependence between domestic and urban spaces, offering an unusual perspective on understanding the neighbourhood’s energy consumption system. Another goal of these interviews is to raise awareness and co-create knowledge with residents. Using visual aids, it becomes possible to give shape and substance to issues that are often abstract and intangible for residents (considering that people are aware of consumption just by utility bills expressed by quantities and units of measurement that are not always understandable).
Those involved in the process become so aware of the quantity and variety of energy-consuming devices and, even more interestingly, of all the practices that lead to energy consumption.
