At the Welsh Government Senedd building in Cardiff Bay, 100s of people – from national politicians to school children – have been taking in the ‘A Sense of Energy’ exhibition, put together by Cardiff and Goldsmith’s Universities and featuring invited contributions from several other UK research teams.
Designed to bring energy use alive, the exhibition features some great interactive stalls, which are best viewed rather than described…so here’s three of the best:
University of Sussex and University of East Anglia brought the ‘building blocks for a community energy project’, little wooden blocks with pledges for the skills necessary to make a community energy project happen
Cardiff University combined the old and the new, with a ‘mangle’ (requiring physical energy to drive it) powering a video screen displaying energy saving messages:
Finally, Oxford Brookes and Oxford University displayed a model of a house leaking energy, complete with hot and cold spots:
The exhibition is a nice way of making the often ‘invisible’ physical and social processes of energy use accessible to people: something that’s easier said than done.