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Power Harvest : Explorations in Regenerative Energy Technologies within the (post) Colonial Climate EmergencyMoss, Miranda January 2021 (has links)
This design project explores the viability of DIY regenerative energy projects, while challenging Eurocentric scientific and engineering norms within a (post)colonial climate emergency. Intervening at the energy-water-sanitation-agriculture nexus from a socio-ecological standpoint, the aim of the project is to fabricate low cost urine-fed Microbial Fuel Cells using non-specialist materials and equipment, and to visualise/ materialise the energy from the devices in a tangible form, in an inherently pedagogical activity. Stemming from a concern that high-end investigations into renewable energy technologies are insufficient in tackling sufficient socio-ecological issues in their reductionist approach, the project assesses the possibilities of energy democratization from a synergistic standpoint. Working within the framework of Regenerative Design and Appropriate Technology, I point out that Western Technological "progress", which is often used as justification and perpetuation of colonial projects, is degenerate and inappropriate, and should be reframed as such. Translating cutting edge bioenergy research into demystified, easy to replicate forms, a large component of the project consists of an intensive material exploration, with the goal of accessibility over efficiency as the most important factor. Aiming for the research to be distilled into a workshop form, in addition to online documentation hereof, proved beyond the reach of the timeframe. However, as a public introduction to this phase of the projects, research made during the project timeline is artistically articulated and presented to the public within the context of an exhibition, to stimulate public participation with the project and the ideas and issues contained herein.
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