Power in the City Podcast
Podcast, Research project about local experiences and initiative in the energy transition
Concept, Producer, Researcher, Scriptwriter and Episode Host
In collaboration with Hannah Knox and Carbon Coop
Funded by the Electricity North West Powering our Communities Fund, ICLEI Action Fund and UCL Grand Challenges.
Concept: Britt Jürgensen and Hannah Knox
Episode production and research: Britt Jürgensen, Hannah Knox, Melissa Kelly Shore and Alex King
Sound design and postproduction: Barry Han
Artwork: Roy McCarthy
Power in the City is a podcast about the everyday and on-the-ground ways that communities are responding to the climate emergency.
The podcast emerges from Hannah Knox’s anthropological research on urban climate change transitions and Britt Jürgensen’s place-based storytelling practice and is part of their long-term collaboration on tracing local narratives in the energy transition. It was researched and produced as part of the participative energy planning process ‘Oldham Energy Futures’.
Climate change and energy transitions are often framed in ways that make them seem disconnected from the everyday concerns of local people and the places where they live. 'Power in the City' focuses on the stories and lived experience of local people in Oldham and the creative ways they confront the climate crisis from the vantage point of their own neighbourhoods. You’ll hear about a cycling Imam and a walking hairdresser, how climate change activism can move through the stomach, about the millions the sun could make for Oldham, how insulation is an act of care and the connection between tadpoles in post-industrial landscapes and the Oldham Green New Deal.