Materializing energy in everyday life
James Pierce, Eric Paulos · 2010
It is not uncommon for approaches to sustainability and design to implicitly or explicitly distinguish between energy on the one hand and materiality on the other. In our current research program we have been approaching issues related to sustainable energy from perspectives broadly related materiality, aiming to productively engage or integrate notions of energy and materiality in service of sustainability and sustainable interaction design. We offer a sketch of our current research program related to materializing energy and then describe one area of this research that focuses on notions of energy attachment and singular energy.