Wilcox+Hierarchy+of+Questions

Memo: Hierarchy of Questions Project: Everyday Energy Policy Interventions in Practice: //Socio-technical regimes (policies / infrastructures / practices) as mediators between humans and ecosystems//


 * 1) __How can “policy” (i.e. collective) interventions affect everyday socio-technical practices and with what consequences?__
 * What are the dominant policy/design interventions through which public institutions attempt to influence non-commercial and non-industrial energy use, and in what ways do they engage (and fail to engage) "residential" energy users? How can we characterize this regime?
 * Policy and program promotion and evaluation documents
 * Ethnographic fieldwork of energy auditing and of policy analysis and delivery (incl. participant observation)
 * [interview question] What factors influenced the design and implementation of (policy X)?
 * [interview question] What has your experience participating in (program X) been like?
 * [interview question] What policies and programs do you find to be most effective and/or exciting, and why?
 * [interview question] In what areas do you feel (policy or program X) be improved?
 * In what styles do governance institutions interact (or interface) with citizens with regard to energy use, and with what political-ecological consequences?
 * Policy and program promotion and evaluation documents
 * Government agency websites
 * Ethnographic fieldwork of energy auditing and of policy analysis and delivery (incl. participant observation)
 * What roles might users, designers, researchers, and policymakers play together in facilitating meaningful energy user engagement?
 * [interview question] What alternative and desirable arrangements of energy service provision can you imagine?
 * Find extreme cases


 * 1) __What are the everyday political dimensions of socio-technical mediation between humans and the larger global ecosystems of which they are a part?__
 * How is energy used/consumed?
 * [interview question] How do you manage your energy consumption?
 * How do energy imaginaries affect energy practices?
 * [interview question] What alternative and desirable arrangements of energy service provision can you imagine?
 * What associations are obscured by dominant energy-related practices, and how does “thinking with energy” bring them to the fore?
 * [interview question] What alternative and desirable arrangements of energy service provision can you imagine?
 * Ethnographic fieldwork of energy auditing and of policy analysis and delivery (incl. participant observation)