Seventeenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

A 2016 Report from the World Energy Council titled “Innovating Urban Energy” predicts that by 2030 the global footprint will triple in urban areas. Consequently, there is an urgent need to address the ways cities might produce knowledge about their energy use, impact, and relationships. When building energy literacy and the link to urban infrastructures, assemblages, and power structures, we are also speaking about relationality – to each other, to systems, to societies, and to the spaces we inhabit. This paper considers a relational model of the Symbiocene, which cultivates a paradigm of social symbiosis and generative future-making, by exploring approaches to energy literacy within sustainability education.