Objective:
This project aims to further our understanding of how controversies over green transitions are exacerbated by a technical framing of the green transition and its solutions. Such disengagement of the green transition from politics through “technification” paradoxically leads to politicization and controversy. To examine this, we focus on wind power development, in particular how the matter of wind turbine sound becomes constituted as contestable ‘noise’. Informed by Science & Technology Studies, we explore the various existing forms of knowledge about wind turbine sound. Based on this, we examine how wind turbine sound is politicized in specific wind farm projects. This informs our experimentation with co-creation workshops, to explore how different forms of knowledge of sound can reach consensus. The project contributes to the field of Science Communication by coupling it with transition and social acceptance studies and to controversy studies by combining it with co-creation theory.

Expected outcome:

Overall, the project aims to provide guidance for the setting of a broader framework for combatting climate change, and positioning of the technification in a more socially sustain-able context. More specifically, our research and workshops will demonstrate the need to create new spaces for co-creation, and deliver inspiration for policy makers and practitioners, so that we can achieve a socially sustainable energy transition.

The types of data collected for the CO-GREEN project involve primarily qualitative research data such as online resources, news media content, public consultation responses, interviews, and notes from field observations related to our participation in events such as public hearings and workshops.

For inquiries into the data, or whether your information is within the data, please contact sonyb@dtu.dk.

This project began January 2021 and runs for 3 years.

Total project budget: 6.18 mio. DKK.

Also see the video interview with Professor Maja Horst:
Denmark should be a leader not only in wind energy research but also as a wind energy society. For that to happen we need to engage in dialogue with people at all levels of society about how we use wind as a shared resource that benefits and advances our entire nation.