The Energy Babble was developed by the studio as part of the Energy and Co-Designing Communities project. It is a domestic appliance that broadcasts comments and sounds sent from a network of Babbles. Described as familiar, playful and ambiguous, it was designed to provoke debate within communities. The Babble was deployed to thirty homes as part of a project that explored the imaginative and emotional dimension of energy usage and the potential of people’s imaginative application of technologies.

• Gaver, William; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie; Wilkie, Alex; Boucher, Andy; Ovalle, Liliana and Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew. 2015. Energy Babble: Mixing Environmentally-Oriented Internet Content to Engage Community Groups. Proceedings of CHI 2015, pp. 1115-1124. [Article]
• Michael, Mike; Wilkie, Alex and Ovalle, Liliana. 2018. Aesthetics and Affect: Engaging Energy Communities. Science as Culture, 27(4), pp. 439-463. ISSN 0950-5431 [Article]
• Boucher, Andy; Gaver, William; Kerridge, Tobie; Michael, Mike; Ovalle, Liliana; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew and Wilkie, Alex. 2018. Energy Babble. Mattering Press. ISBN 978-0-9955277-2-0 [Book]
• Wilkie, Alex. 2018. Sound Design. In: Andy Boucher; William Gaver; Tobie Kerridge; Mike Michael; Liliana Ovalle; Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and Alex Wilkie, eds. Energy Babble. Manchester: Mattering Press, pp. 56-60. ISBN 978-0-9955277-2-0 [Book Section]
• Wilkie, Alex. 2018. Studios, Problems, Publics. In: Andy Boucher; William Gaver; Tobie Kerridge; Mike Michael; Liliana Ovalle; Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and Alex Wilkie, eds. Energy Babble. Manchester: Mattering Press, pp. 90-96. ISBN 978-0-9955277-2-0 [Book Section]
• Gabrys, Jennifer; Kerridge, Tobie; Michael, Mike; Wilkie, Alex and Ovalle, Liliana. 2012. 'Energy Babble: Design Interventions for Energy Reduction Communities'. In: EASST/4S 2012. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark 17-20 Oct 2012. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Ovalle, Liliana. 2016. 'Energy Babble. Symposium Art and Design by Other Means: Research Methods and Practices'. In: EASST/4S. Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, Spain 31 Aug - 1 Sept 2016. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Ovalle, Liliana and Gaver, William. 2016. 'Energy Babble: embodiment of a research device'. In: Object Outcomes: Attending to Objects as Outcomes of Design Research. CHI 2016, United States. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Ovalle, Liliana. 2016. 'Designing Energy Experiments: Scripting Ambiguity and Curiosity in a Research Device'. In: Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (EASST/4S). Barcelona, Spain 31 Aug - 3 Sept 2016. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Gaver, William and Boucher, Andy. 2018. 'Hyperbole and Restraint as Tactics for Design'. In: CHI 2018. Montreal, Canada. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Gaver, William and Boucher, Andy. 2018. 'Hyperbole and Restraint as Tactics for Design'. In: CHI 2018. Montreal, Canada. [Conference or Workshop Item]
• Gaver, William; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie; Wilkie, Alex; Boucher, Andy; Ovalle, Liliana and Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew. 2018. Design: Energy Babble. [Design]
• Boucher, Andy; Cameron, David; Gaver, William; Hauenstein, Mark; Jarvis, Nadine; Kerridge, Tobie; Michael, Mike; Ovalle, Liliana; Pennington, Sarah and Wilkie, Alex. 2015. Web Science 2015. In: "Web Science 2015 Conference Exhibition", Web Sci '15, United Kingdom, 28 June – 1 July 2015. [Show/Exhibition]
• Gaver, William; Kerridge, Tobie; Wilkie, Alex; Ovalle, Liliana; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew and Boucher, Andy. 2016. Energy Babble. In: "Climactic: Post Normal Design", Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States, Nov - Dec 2016. [Show/Exhibition]
• Gaver, William; Kerridge, Tobie; Wilkie, Alex; Ovalle, Liliana; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew and Boucher, Andy. 2014. Multimodal Encounters With Energy Communities. In: "A Sense of Energy", The White Building, London, United Kingdom, 26-28 June 2014. [Show/Exhibition]
• Gaver, William; Kerridge, Tobie; Wilkie, Alex; Ovalle, Liliana; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew and Boucher, Andy. 2014. A Sense Of Energy: Multimodal Encounters With Energy Communities. In: "A Sense of Energy", The Welsh Assembly, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2014. [Show/Exhibition]
• Gaver, William; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie; Ovalle, Liliana; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew; Wilkie, Alex and Gabrys, Jennifer. 2014. Energy Babble. In: "A Sense of Energy", The White Building, London, United Kingdom, 26 Jun - 28 Jun 2014. [Show/Exhibition]
• Gaver, William; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie; Ovalle, Liliana; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew; Wilkie, Alex and Gabrys, Jennifer. 2014. Energy Babble. In: "A Sense of Energy", The Senedd, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2014. [Show/Exhibition]
• Gaver, William; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie; Ovalle, Liliana; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew; Wilkie, Alex; Gabrys, Jennifer and Boucher, Andy. 2015. Experimental Thinking / Design Practices. In: "Experimental Thinking / Design Practices", Griffith University Art Gallery, Australia. [Show/Exhibition]
• Gaver, William; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie; Ovalle, Liliana; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew; Wilkie, Alex; Gabrys, Jennifer and Boucher, Andy. 2014. Feral Experimental. In: "Feral Experimental", UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia. [Show/Exhibition]

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