Building a film database to support decision-making for energy infrastructure in low income housing in India and South Africa

研究网络致力于解决清洁和负担得起的能源（可持续发展目标七）、可持续城市（可持续发展目标十一）和性别平等（可持续发展目标五）等主要发展挑战。该项目以我们在印度和南非的三个跨学科GCRF项目的成果为基础，解决了这些项目中发现的差距（决策者与当地社区之间的沟通不足以及妇女缺乏参与能源政策），并旨在最大限度地发挥其影响。能源基础设施对妇女的影响尤其大，因为她们比男子更多地呆在家里，从事大多数家务劳动，并且极其依赖社会网络。在发展中国家，妇女在家庭中的传统角色导致她们在家庭能源消费方面的影响力远远超过男性，但妇女参与联合国可持续发展目标7（能源）和11（安全、有弹性和可持续的人类住区）的问题仍然是一个研究不足的领域，特别是在城市背景下。我们之前的研究表明，政策制定者完全不了解印度和南非低收入定居点妇女的日常现实：新能源和住房基础设施导致家庭从户外转移到室内，能源密集型生活方式和债务。预测能源需求的未来，首先要了解产生国内能源消耗的日常生活。然而，在当前的能源研究中，有效捕捉日常生活环境的方法是一个盲点。挑战是相当大的，需要一个彻底的新方法。电影是一种记录的艺术，它总是充满了与特定文化、政治和环境下的社会和物质背景相关的预先存在的现实。电影是一种未被使用的工具，用来研究住宅中家庭生活的解体，而住宅在社会文化背景下是出了名的难以进入的。研究网络探讨电影分析和短纪录片如何能够提供有关妇女日常行为和能源使用的重要新数据。这将使我们能够提出建议，从而建立更具包容性、可负担得起的清洁能源基础设施。该研究网络将通过以下方式解决这一发展挑战：a)分析我们现有的关于印度和非洲影院日常家庭实践的CineSpaceMuse数据库；b)拍摄一系列在孟买和开普敦拍摄的纪录短片；c)在孟买、开普敦和剑桥的一系列研讨会上对政策制定者进行测试。国际合作者（印度理工学院/印度理工学院、开普敦市、发展行动小组/DAG、为你服务的医生/DFU）在制定这一建议和确定该领域的发展挑战方面发挥了关键作用。他们的参与至关重要，在讲习班，分析和传播。该项目以两种方式使用电影。首先，通过采用AHRC CineMuseSpace项目开发的方法和软件[https://www.cinemusespace.arct.cam.ac.uk]]。这部分研究将直接建立在我们的CineGenus项目[https://www.cinemusespace.arct.cam.ac.uk/news/cinegenus]]上。其次，PI和Co-I将在孟买和开普敦的低收入住房拍摄短纪录片（每部2-5分钟），记录居住者的日常行为，这些行为与能源（主要是电力）相互作用。其新颖之处在于，利用虚构电影中的数据作为一种反映工具，绘制出与日常生活同步的能源消耗模式。短片数据库、政策简报和低收入住房能源基础设施设计指南将与所有项目合作伙伴共同编写，并在研讨会上讨论。

The Research Network addresses the key development challenges of clean and affordable energy (SDG7), sustainable cities (SDG11) and gender equality (SDG5). The project builds on the findings of our three interdisciplinary GCRF projects in India and South Africa, addresses the gap identified in these projects (poor communication between policy makers and the local community and lack of women's participation in energy policy) and aims to maximise their impact. Energy infrastructure affects women in particular as they are at home more than men, carry out most household practices and are extremely dependant of social networks. In developing countries, women's traditional role at home leads to them having far more influence than men on domestic energy consumption but women's involvement in UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 7 (energy) and 11 (safe, resilient and sustainable human settlements) remains an under-researched area, especially in the urban context. Our previous research has revealed policy makers' total lack of understanding of women's daily realities in low income settlements in India and South Africa: new energy and housing infrastructure has led to households practices moving from outdoors to indoors, energy intense lifestyle and debt.Predicting the future of energy demand lies in understanding the everyday life that sources domestic energy consumption. Yet approaches to effectively capture the everyday life in domestic environments are a blind spot in current energy research. The challenges are considerable and call for a radical new approach. Film is an art of recording that is always imbued with a pre-existing reality associated with a social and physical context within given cultural, political and environmental circumstances. Cinema is an unused vehicle to study the unravelling of domesticity within dwellings that are notoriously difficult to access given the sociocultural context. The Research Network explores how cinematic analysis and short documentary films could provide crucial new data concerning womens' daily practices and energy use. This could allow us to make recommendations that could result in the creation of more inclusive, affordable and clean energy infrastructure. This Research Network will address this development challenge specifically by: a) analyzing our existing CineSpaceMuse database on everyday household practices in Indian and African cinema; b) making a series of short documentary films on location in Mumbai and Cape Town; and c) testing the approach on policy makers in a series of workshops in Mumbai, Cape Town and Cambridge. The international collaborators (Indian Institute of Technology/IITB, City of Cape Town, Development Action Group/DAG, Doctors For You/DFU) have been in key role on developing this proposal and identifying development challenges in the field. Their participation in crucial in the workshops, the analysis and dissemination. The project uses films in two ways. First, by adopting the methodology and the software developed for the AHRC CineMuseSpace project [https://www.cinemusespace.arct.cam.ac.uk]. This part of the study will directly build on our CineGenus project [https://www.cinemusespace.arct.cam.ac.uk/news/cinegenus]. Second, PI and Co-I will make short documentary films (each 2-5min) on location in low income housing in Mumbai and Cape Town that pin down the occupants' daily practices, which interact with energy, mainly electricity. The novelty lies in using the fiction films' data as a reflective tool to map energy consumption patterns which are in sync with daily lives. Short film database, policy briefing and design guidelines for energy infrastructure in low income housing will be written together with all project partners and discussed in the workshops.