Intentful closure: Regenerative Energy Imaginaries
Topics: Energy
, Anthropocene
, Digital Geographies
Keywords: Energy, Community, Technoscience, Meso, Design, Queer Theory, Agroecology, Decolonial, Regenerative Farming
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Saturday
Session Start / End Time: 2/26/2022 03:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/26/2022 05:00 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 40
Authors:
Helen V. Pritchard, University of Plymouth
Eric Snodgrass, Linnaeus University / Linköping University
Miranda Moss, Artist
Daniel Gustafsson, Linnaeus University
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Abstract
As a response to the palpable endings of carbon-based energy there has been a proliferation of techno-utopian solutions for resilient energy communities. From micro tracking devices for measuring energy to prepper workshops for off-grid living, the technical and social imaginaries of community energy are grounded within imaginaries of survival, repair and resilience. Such emerging imaginations and politics of energy transition remain powerfully attached to the image of the "smooth life". Instead, this paper presents energy projects that draw on practices of regenerative farmers and agroecologists to outline how they might offer ways to consider intentful closure, such as the closure of damaging practices of tillage (no plow), pesticide and fertilizer practices, as well as the closure of Western agricultural practices that have actively worked to dismantle non-Western agrarian knowledges and practices. We discuss our project "Regenerative Energy Communities" in which artists, designers and farmers work together on regenerative imaginaries to build and support ties across soils and damage colonial narratives of the smooth continuity of energy. We explore what kinds of practices can arise out of small scale, unstable forms of sustainable energy provision for farming communities not connected to mainstream energy infrastructures. We discuss our experiments for meso scale community energy on a city farm, such as urine generated energy supplies and mushroom wind turbines. Here we seek to reframe regeneration not as a technics in the service of survival and resilience, but instead as a regenerative practice of living with carbon endings and depresencing technosolutionism/energy within farming.
Intentful closure: Regenerative Energy Imaginaries
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