Solarscape: The power of humanity in designing solar imaginaries, entangled worlds, and critical sustainable futures

Sammanfattning: Solarscape is a thesis on the phenomenology of the Solar – an experiential, relational, and critical approach to how humans and humanity world-with solar energy in its different forms and manifestations. Using solar panels as a central artefact of concern, I explore surrounding human and non-human relationships through situated individual and collaborative design practices: workshops, interviews, (auto)ethnography, to name a few. I offer six publications consisting of several qualitative design studies, compounding knowledge that deliberates on the thesis's main research question: How might the human experience play a role in the designing of situated solar futures? The thesis, composed through the poetics of knowledge production, culminates in a critical discussion of sustainable futures, the role of a solar designer, and ultimately, what it means to be human in the era of the Solar.