Creating Collaborative Futures → Collective Decision-making for the Energy Transition
Creating Collaborative Futures Overview.
Creating Collaborative Futures: Collective Decision-making for the Energy Transition – was run in collaboration with the Collective Intelligence team at NESTA, the UK’s innovation agency, and focused on exploring the future of sustainable energy.
The brief invited the five Masters of European Design students to explore and envision how people and technology could collaborate to enable informed decision-making in energy systems that benefit communities and the environment over the next decade. To achieve this, the students employed one of NESTA’s tools, HACID.
HACID stands for Human and Artificial Collective Intelligence for Decision-Making and is a hybrid technology that aggregates artificial intelligence and crowd-sourced expert input. HACID supports decision-making for complex, open-ended problems like those in the energy sector. Its goal is to provide multiple suggestions and insights to help navigate these challenges.
Over the course of the intensive collaborative project, the students envisioned a 2035 future world vision and developed individual works that come together to form an interconnected system for communities to approach complex decision-making related to the energy transition.
Place Publics
Empowering diverse community participation in collective and place-based deliberation. Place Publics acts as a physical touchpoint with HAECID technology and facilitates the full process of making a complex decision within a community. The tool is used in a shared space by different groups throughout the decision-making process, with human and AI mediators guiding its users.
Place Publics seeks to ensure community members are empowered and informed to make democratic decisions by presenting and communicating complex information to all entities involved. Ensuring final decisions are made with a complete understanding of who and what it will affect and that those perspectives are present in the process, while building an expanding body of knowledge by contributing to collective intelligence for future decisions.
Place Publics has four main stages:
- The Co-op board present a decision for deliberation.
- Community and co-op members receive context for understanding from HAECID.
- Community and co-op members input their perspectives and ideas.
- Coop members receive ranked solutions from HAECID to deliberate on and reach a conclusion.
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