What is the lived experience of energy transition? | Coffee break research at LSE

Описание: Energy transition is typically presented as a pathway to a common sustainable future and an economic opportunity, but the lived experience of energy transition is often overlooked.

Dr Gisa Weszkalnys introduces the exhibition, Sensing Energy Transition, a collaboration with sound artist Maja Zećo and curator Rachel Grant which was on display in LSE’s Atrium Gallery between Monday 19 January and Friday 20 February 2026. The talk explores how using arts-based methodologies can complicate the story of energy transition, enabling participants to engage in the sounds, textures and atmospheres of energy transition as an uneven, contested, sensory experience.

Dr Gisa Weszkalnys's research focuses on energy developments, plantation and extractive economies, and struggles over transparency and inclusion in environment/resource management in São Tomé and Príncipe and the UK. A key question connecting Dr Weszkalnys's research is how people’s imaginations of the future and their ideas of what is to come shape the cultural and material worlds they make.

🔴 Gisa Weszkalnys is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at LSE, https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/gisa-wes...

🔴 Read more about Dr Weszkalnys's research in Research for the World, our online social science magazine: https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/resear...

🔴 Read more about the "Sensing energy transition" exhibition: https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/arts-and...

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