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The Royal College of Art SusLabNWE Team Authors: Flora Bowden, Dan Lockton, Rama Gheerawo, Clare Brass Editor: Rama Gheerawo About the authors Flora Bowden is a Research Associate for SustainRCA at...
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Acknowledgements
Many people took part in our drawing study. We have not been able to publish all their work, however we would like to thank every contributor personally. Not everyone who gave us a drawing gave us his...
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References
Afonso, Ana Isabel. (2004). ‘New Graphics for Old Stories: Representation of Local Memories Through Drawings’ in Working Images: Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography. Pink, Sarah, Kürti,...
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The Bigger Picture
The drawings clearly show diverse interpretations of energy and most are vastly different from the ways in which energy is regularly communicated by energy companies through the media and the energy...
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The Research Process
This section presents the background to the drawing study, framing it within the broader context of the European SusLabNWE project. It explains the research process that led us to the development of...
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The Energy Context
Much of the UK’s housing was built before the links between energy use and climate change were understood. Much of it was also built when there were very different expectations of thermal comfort. To...
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Introduction
Project Background Drawing Energy is a drawing-based research study exploring people’s perceptions of energy, an often intangible concept that is ever-present in our daily lives. It was conducted as...
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Welcome
Drawing Energy describes a drawing-based research project undertaken by the Royal College of Art as part of SusLabNWE (2012-15). The project explored people’s perceptions of energy, by asking them to...
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The Drawings
From the three phases of the drawing study emerged a collection of 180 images of ‘energy’, most of which are shown here (scroll to the right or below on mobile). They present a diverse, multi-faceted...
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Order or download the book
Download the book (8.1MB PDF) Bowden, F., Lockton, D., Gheerawo, R. and Brass, C. (2015). Drawing Energy: Exploring perceptions of the invisible. London: Royal College of Art. ISBN 978-1-910642-10-8...
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