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urn:uuid:2c647e88-873b-42c3-bdbd-52162bd9aaf8 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2c647e88-873b-42c3-bdbd-52162bd9aaf8 15 9780995527737 06 10.28938/9780995527720 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ 01 01 Energy Babble 1 A01 21 0000-0002-4226-7059 Andy Boucher 2 A01 Bill Gaver 3 A01 Tobie Kerridge 4 A01 Mike Michael 5 A01 21 0000-0001-6973-9784 Katherine Moline 6 A01 Liliana Ovalle 7 A01 Matthew Plummer-Fernandez 8 A01 Alex Wilkie 01 eng 00 152 03 10 DES000000 10 TEC016020 10 SOC026040 03 00 This is the story of a set of computational devices called Energy Babbles. The product of a collaboration between designers and STS researchers, Energy Babbles are like automated talk radios obsessed with energy. Synthesised voices, punctuated by occasional jingles, recount energy policy announcements, remarks about energy conservation made on social media, information about current energy demand and production, and comments entered by other Babble users.Developed for members of UK community groups working to promote sustainable energy practices, the Energy Babbles were designed to reflect the complex situations they navigate, to provide information and encourage communication, and to help shed light on their engagements with energy policy and practice. This book tells the story of the Babbles from a mix of design and STS perspectives, suggesting how design may benefit from the perspectives of STS, and how STS may take an interventionist, design-led approach to the study of emerging technological issues.ChaptersEnergy Babble is organised into three main sections – Framing, Designing, and Circulating – that trace the story of how a team of design and STS researchers made and deployed a set of computational devices to UK–based community groups. The book is introduced by way of a preface and introduction and contains subsections that describe the various ways in which the research into local energy practices was conducted. Katherine Moline provides a reflection on her three-year experience of curating exhibitions that features the Energy Babble device and the book comes to a close with an Afterword by Bill Gaver. 04 00 Preface 7 Introducing the project: Entangling speculation, design, and STS 10 ____ Framing, 13 · A prehistory. Mike Michael, 14 · Project identity, 16 · Fieldwork, 17 · A workshop, 28 · Cultural probes, 32 · My energy monitor: Chronicle of a failed attempt. Liliana Ovalle, 36 · Rescripting monitors, 38 Designing, 41 · Workbooks, 42 · That's not my name. Bill Gaver, 46 · Brief, 48 · Why an 'Energy Babble'? Gill Gaver, 50 · Design and development, 51 · Hardware, 52 · Sound, 55 · Sound design. Alex Wilkie, 56 · Software, 61 · Babblebot stories. Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, 62 · Form, 66 · Shaping the Energy Babble. Liliana Ovalle, 68 · Production, 74 · The microphone and the algorithm. Andy Boucher, 79 · Studios, problems, publics. Alex Wilkie, 90 Circulating, 99 · Deploying, 100 · 'Engaging with' and 'engaged by': Publics and communities, design, and sociology. Tobie Kerridge and Mike Michael, 103 · Using, 111 · Design and Science & Technology Studies. Mike Michael, 115 · Community as a state of mind. Liliana Ovalle, 126 · Engaging with the community, 128 · Living with the Energy Babble. Bill Gaver, 129 · Exhibiting and engaging, 134 · Three years of living with an Energy Babble. Katherine Moline, 136 · The stuff of method: Open things and closed objects. Mike Michael, 141 Afterword, 148 20 00 Open Access Mattering Press 01 Mattering Press Manchester, UK 04 01 20180904 13 15 9780995527720 09 Mattering Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.matteringpress.org/books/energy-babble 99 01 09 Mattering Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.matteringpress.org/10.28938/9780995527720.pdf 99 01