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In the last decades, the evolution of technologies for the smart home enabled users to control the electrical usage of system and appliances. However, despite the widespread of IoT solutions, there is a poor integration between electrical utilities and products or services. This is mainly due to disaggregation of electrical data and the lack of interoperability between actors. These weaknesses bring to a non-supervised electrical “last mile” and poor awareness of detailed users’ electrical consumption.
This work aims to introduce the concept of Smart Home Grid showing a first model with four main goals: gather data and extract usage patterns; improve the user experience by supporting the users through an electrical usage information system; share the usage between actors; push Energy-as-a-Service models for sustainability.
Authors: Paolo Perego, Gregorio Stano
Authors: Gabriela Sandoval Andrade
Popular narratives on sustainable development of transport infrastructure focus predominantly on how successfully designed
transit stops are an important tool to improve social inclusion and urban mobility. This approach to sustainable
development treats social inclusion as a consequence of sustainable development and looks at social inclusion as a rights
issue, where everyone irrespective of gender, age, disability etc. has a right to public transport facilities. This paper proposes
an alternative way of understanding social inclusion with respect to sustainability. Rather than treating inclusion as a consequence
of sustainable development, it seeks to position inclusive approaches in spatial design as pathways and enablers
of more sustainable cities in the global south. This approach also presents social inclusion as an opportunity-provider for
sustainability as opposed to popular narratives that present it as an opportunity created by sustainable development.
Through the context of the Mass Rapid Transport System (MRTS) stations in Chennai, the paper shall address this
method in two parts -
1) Through existing narratives of social exclusion while navigating through a Chennai MRTS station - The space is
dissected and examined to elucidate its contribution to social exclusion of people with different identities, in its socio-economic
and political context. The resultant exclusion discourages them from using particular modes of public transport.
2) Establishing connections between the discussed social exclusion and overall usage of public transport in a city.
This is followed by a brief discussion on how eliminating this exclusion can lead to increased sustainability.
Authors: Lakshmi S
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Considering design as a culture and a practice that suggest ways of living, its applications aim to launch different meanings to society. Social innovation through design, in the context of apprentices’ learning shows new life perspectives and instigate their creative skills for transforming daily routine through innovative solution generation. The objective of this article is to describe the extension project experience that had as motivation instigating a new way of perceiving apprentice practice, suggesting new articulation and internal problem solving of their own institution concerning socioeducational materials for pre-primary children’s education. The project enabled a thinking and process assimilation of designing from the youngster’s perspective, who have identified new possibilities of applying the acquired knowledge for future use in diverse contexts. Furthermore, to the younger children, it has given the opportunity to access the diverse and creative material, under the light of designing.
Authors: Karina Pereira Weber, Isabel Cristina Moreira Victoria, Marco Antonio Weiss, Luiz Fernando Gonçalves De Figueiredo