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A ‘double-eyed’ approach to a just energy transition in underprivileged neighbourhoods
An article was recently published that succinctly explains how the Just Prepare project aims to contribute to the energy transition in neighbourhoods with a dilapidated housing stock, limited economic vitality and a significant need for renovation. Yet there is often considerable resistance to renovation projects in these neighbourhoods. As a result, opportunities to give the energy transition a boost are being missed.
Results of the Summer Comfort Survey
During the summer and winter of 2023/2024, we asked residents how they stay cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Through photography, writing, drawings, and conversations, residents shared their experiences and knowledge about staying cool and warm in their homes. We spoke with families and single people, older adults and young people, people born in the Netherlands and people born elsewhere. Most of the people we spoke with were renters.
Integrating residents’ heating practices into energy retrofit decision-making: a sufficiency-oriented approach
In the energy retrofit decision-making process, standardized assumptions about thermal comfort overlook the diversity of residents’ heating practices, promoting a one-size-fits-all approach. This can lead to resource-intensive interventions that fail to deliver proportional energy savings, cost-efficiency, and carbon emissions reductions. In our recent publication, co-authored with Carolina Recart, Lenneke Kuijer and Roel Loonen, we integrate residents’ heating practices into the decision-making process to rethink the scale of envelope retrofits through a sufficiency approach. By aligning retrofit strategies with residents’ heating practices, we identified more suitable solutions, such as moderate retrofits or targeted measures, that deliver higher cost-effectiveness and environmental benefits.
Effective and fair renovation in Rotterdam BoTu
In many places across the country, efforts to disconnect enough homes from the gas grid are proving unsuccessful. However, in the Rotterdam neighbourhood of Bospolder Tussendijken (BoTu), plans are on track. That is why part of the Just Prepare research will focus on BoTu for several years. We want to investigate what it takes to achieve goals effectively and whether this can be combined with a fair approach.
Working on a new meaning-making in the energy transition through living labs
Beneath you can read an article by Anna de Zeeuw, Rosa Koetsenruijter, Erik Jansen en Ilona van Breugel. This article has been retrieved via: https://publications.hva.nl/bewogen-stad-16/de-rol-van-taal-in-energietransitie The energy transition brings together many different worlds: housing associations, energy companies, municipalities, social enterprises, and research institutions must work together, but that is never easy. Sometimes it seems like
Research Design Charissa Leiwakabessy
Lees hieronder over de onderzoeksopzet van PhD onderzoeker Charissa Leiwakabessy! Wie en Wat Doet er Toe? Bestudering van Erkenningsrechtvaardigheid in Energie Transities. Dit roept een belangrijke, maar vaak impliciete vraag op: wie en wat wordt gezien in de energie transitie? Erkenningsrechtvaardigheid wordt vaak geschetst als de eerlijke erkenning van diverse identiteiten, behoeften, en ervaringen in besluitvorming, […]
Research Design Piet de Koning
Read beneath about the research design of PhD researcher Piet de Koning for Just Prepare! As a designer and researcher, I look at how residents use energy, make themselves and others comfortable in and around their homes, and the role that objects and technology play in this. I believe it is important that people can share their ideas and experiences
Research Design Simone van Wieringen
Read beneath about the research design of PhD researcher Simone van Wieringen! My research begins with residents' energy practices. It concerns what residents say and do with regard to energy and objects in their homes. What residents say and do (i.e., their “practices”) does not exist in isolation, but is connected to the world outside their homes.
Vulnerable Neighbourhoods in Transition: Understanding Multilevel Decision-Making in Housing Energy Retrofit Processes.
Hieronder leest u een academische publicatie (extended abstract) door Diletta Ricci, Thaleia Konstantinou en Henk Visscher.
Advancing justice in energy renovation for vulnerable neighborhoods
Hieronder leest u een academische publicatie door Diletta Ricci, Thaleia Konstantinou en Henk Visscher uit 2024. Dit artikel is geraadpleegd via: https://pure.tudelft.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/196686391/Advancing_justice_in_energy_renovation_for_vulnerable_neighbourhoods.pdf