Buildings and Cities, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 5(1)
Published: Sept. 27, 2024
How can people imagine ways of achieving desirable energy futures in cities, oriented towards sufficiency? Building on the notion sufficiency understood as avoiding demand while meeting human needs, this paper discusses results seven participatory workshops (n = 154 participants) held Switzerland where new imaginaries around future cities were discussed. The demonstrate that reflect how living, consuming and working could achieve double dividend needs using less energy. Based practices-as-satisfiers, participants collectively discussed synergic satisfiers or changes to practices found lead savings satisfaction multiple needs. However, for be possible, need thought part systems: several would take place at once. Certain practices, such reducing work time, are prefigurative others. Participants reflected planned for, moving from individual change proposed collective changes, considering their interrelated nature. findings show similar forms public participation policy-relevant insights planning, adopting implementing measures cities. Policy relevance While efficiency renewable central many national strategies, policies—involving reductions together with wellbeing—are emerging a key component transition. conducted Swiss citizens provide into organize future. First, policy development must consider goal, means reaching goal. Second, should included debate, they today futures. presented synergic, nature systems needed useful inform debates what come out discussions, namely imagined level sufficiency.
Language: Английский