Felipe Figueiredo, PhD fellow at the IT-University of Copenhagen, has co-authored chapter 11, “Landing Down the Carbon Clouds: Stories of Another Present,” with Clarissa Reche in the book “Low Carbon Research Methods: Making Equity and Epistemological Gains Through Decarbonising Academic Work”. The chapter is a thought provoking science fiction that forces the reader to think about how we currently do technoscience and what alternative courses of action might look like. The chapter ends by asking scientists to think deeply and critically about the methods they use, in what context they use them and how their research relates to themselves. Read more about the book and the chapter here.

Felipe has also co-authored a chapter with Jean Carlos Hochsprung Miguel on the Brazilian transmission system and energy planning from the perspective of the Anthropology of Infrastructures. In the chapter they propose an analysis of the sociotechnical processes through which water resources inform electricity market decisions and are converted into technoeconomic artifacts. Part of the research informing this chapter stems from Felipe’s master’s thesis at the Federal University of São Paulo. Read more about the book and his contribution here.