Laura Watts is Professor at Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture (KULT), author and consultant. As a Science & Technology Studies (STS) scholar her research and writing explores the effect of ‘edge’ places on how the energy and tech future can be imagined and made otherwise. Her last book, Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga (MIT Press), won the 4S Rachel Carson Prize for its social and political relevance and was Shortlisted for Saltire Research Book of the Year.
She has spent the last fifteen years collaborating with renewable energy organisations and communities in Orkney, Scotland, and is currently writing solarpunk speculative futures. For further details see sand14.com
As part of NTNU she is developing collaborative speculative futures as part of the research project, Imagining Positive Energy Futures (IPEF).
