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Energy and climate transitions demand long-term systemic transformations and meaningful societal engagement. Mainstream approaches to engaging society fail to address the systemic nature of this challenge, through focusing on communication to the public or discrete forms of participation in specific parts of wider systems. Partly in response to deficiencies of these approaches, new ways of seeing and doing participation as constructed, diverse and systemic are emerging across the social sciences.
One way this is being taken forward is through the Public Engagement Observatory established as part of the UK Energy Research Centre. In this talk, Observatory Lead Prof Jason Chilvers will introduce the Public Engagement Observatory framework, show how the Observatory is pioneering new methods that map diverse forms of public engagement with energy and climate change across systems, and explore how these mappings are being put into practice in collective experiments to help make energy and climate-related decisions, innovations and participation more just, responsible and responsive to society.
