Collegium Helveticum
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Fellow Project 2024–2025

The Production of Renewable Energy Space
How the Energy Transition Is Reshaping the Urban Environment

The global urgency to mitigate climate change demands systemic transformations, with the energy transition at its core. This planetary challenge creates uneven impacts, necessitating "just transitions" that consider the spatial and social dimensions of renewable energy production. This project critically examines renewable energy as a multi-dimensional process, exploring how energy spaces are planned, governed, materialized through infrastructure, and experienced on the ground.

In Southeast Asia, renewable energy landscapes range from advanced storage systems to traditional firewood collection, reflecting diverse socio-technical regimes shaped by varying knowledge, technologies, user needs, and regulatory frameworks. By analyzing these dimensions and their interrelationship, and engaging with experimental systems of governance, this project seeks to map the socio-cultural and environmental implications of renewable energy practices and identify sustainable and equitable pathways for transition.

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