A new book has just been published, authored by members of the International network for Social Studies of Marine Energy (ISSMER). The book is titled ‘Ocean Energy: Governance Challenges for…
Tag: marine energy
Pelamis Wave Energy Machine – a museum exhibit
This visual poem has just been published in the journal of Cultural Anthropology, as part of their special collection ‘Our Lives with Electric Things’. View the published poem. “Why was…
Electric Nemesis on Smart Power
In March, the UK National Infrastructure Commission released a report on how the electricity grid needs to change in order to keep the lights on, and meet the 2050 targets…
Orkney Standard Time
“This is how I was born, how my creator, Victor Frankenstein, sparked me into energetic life…” So began my performance-paper at 4S 2015 (Society for Social Studies of Science) and…
Ebban An’ Flowan book
Ebban an’ flowan is the world’s first poetic primer on marine renewable energy. The book focuses on the Orkney islands, as the leading international test site for this nascent energy…
Invisible Work in Marine Energy
Free to download. A collection of seven cards demonstrating the invisible work ongoing at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), in the Orkney islands, Scotland – the world’s first grid-connected…
Pixels and Pencils Wordmap
As part of my performance paper at Nordic STS this year, at Aalborg University in Copenhagen, I created a Wordmap to guide visitors through my world-made-in-words, a world made from…
Alien Energy Fanzine
As part of our ongoing collaboration with those involved in marine energy, both in Denmark and in Orkney islands, we developed a ‘fanzine’–a fan magazine, inspired by the cut-and-paste interventions…
Planned Edge: Planning Issues at the Land/Sea Interface
Report from Public Workshop on the ongoing issues for the future of the marine energy industry, as it struggles with the planning disjuncture between land and sea. Marine energy projects,…
Stories in Wave and Stone
This was a conference session made into an arts and ethnography method. Five people from Orkney told their own personal story of one beach, where the European Marine Energy Centre…