Sufficient Energy Landscape

Tuning Technologies With Social Practices And Other Ecologies In The Urban Context

Abstract

European urban contexts and urbanisation processes are facing an energy transition that increasingly requires the integration of technical solutions within consolidated spaces and energy behaviours. For a long time, EU policies have long privileged the economic and technical dimensions of energy, often neglecting the impact on space and people.
However, European urban contexts layered with levels of complexity such as dense and historic fabrics, climate hotspots, governance inertia, require design strategies that combine technological innovation, social needs and natural balances in a general lack of space and resources. PED4ALL, an ongoing research project that interprets the Roman area of Ostiense as a positive energy neighbourhood, embraces energy efficiency as a key concept that makes it possible to realise the energy transition by tuning the technological apparatuses to the socio-spatial features of the site.