Grégoire Wallenborn
Biographic Data
| ID | 565745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grégoire Wallenborn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grégoire |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallenborn |
| SIGNATURE | WALLENBORN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1198-1938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Future directions for sustainable consumption research and action
This article identifies ten priorities for future sustainable consumption research and action, prioritising questions of (in)justice. It emerged from a series of interdisciplinary exchanges between sustainable consumption scholars from across Europe, reflecting their expert perspectives and research practices.
SlowHeat, une recherche-action participative pour expérimenter et co-définir une pratique de chauffage sobre
Developing a minifesta for effective academic-activist collaboration in the context of the climate emergency
Justice-oriented climate activism is proliferating. Many scholars aspire to deliver research that supports activism. However, measures of impact for research evaluation and funding purposes place little weight on the use of research by activists. Here we consider how academics and academia might effectively support and enable climate activism. We report outcomes from a series of online deliberative workshops involving both activists and academics…
New insights into thermal comfort sufficiency in dwellings
Domestic heating is a major contributor to energy consumption and must be minimised to achieve climate targets. Building on the concept of addressing the distinct heating needs of individuals and buildings separately, the Slowheat project implemented a three-year transdisciplinary real-world laboratory focusing on adaptive heating practices. This initiative involved 23 households in Brussels, Belgium, in a collaborative exploration of the suffici…
Challenging social norms to recraft practices: A Living Lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight European countries
ENERGISE is the first large-scale European effort to reduce household energy use through a change initiative that adopted a ‘living lab’ approach informed by social practice theory. Two challenges were introduced to 306 households in eight countries: to lower indoor temperatures and to reduce laundry cycles. This contribution demonstrates the usefulness of a practice-centered design that takes habits and routines as an entry point for understandi…
Transforming innovation for decarbonisation? Insights from combining complex systems and social practice perspectives
Technological innovations seem to be among the great promises for achieving the urgent modernisation of economies towards carbon-neutrality. Ranging from fusion energy, bio-based fuels, carbon capture and storage to PV panels and so-called smart energy systems, plenty of technologies promise to reduce use or greenhouse gas emissions of carbon based energy sources. This techno-centric view disregards to a great extent that technological change aff…
Transformations énergétiques sous contrainte écologique forte
L'idée d'une « transition » énergétique, processus pilotable dans un monde relativement stable et anticipable, semble arriver à son terme. Même le GIEC en appelle désormais à des « transformations » énergétiques rapides et radicales. Toutefois, malgré la prise de conscience de l'urgence climatique et de la perte dramatique de biodiversité, qui s'actualise notamment dans une série de manifestations et de luttes, la question du climat est trop rare…
Making "Sustainable Consumption" Matter: The Indoor Microclimate as Contested Cultural Artifact
This article demonstrates how a cultural reading of consumption that focuses on the meaning and materiality of domestic indoor microclimates can contribute to conceptual developments in the field of practice theory that refocus attention on cultural patterns, including prevailing norms and prescriptions regarding indoor temperature and thermal comfort. Drawing on evidence collected during a research-led change initiative that encouraged people to…
Alternative and Resistance Movements: The Two Faces of Sustainability Transformations
Emergent transformation games: Exploring social innovation agency and activation through the case of the Belgian electricity blackout threat
Pel, B., G. Wallenborn, and T. Bauler. 2016. Emergent transformation games: exploring social innovation agency and activation through the case of the Belgian electricity blackout threat. Ecology and Society 21(2):17.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08346-210217
Sociologie de l'énergie: Gouvernance et pratiques sociales
Affaire de société, enjeu politique, objet de controverses, l'énergie est devenue depuis une quinzaine d'années un sujet de recherche de première importance pour les sociologues. Alors que les débats autour de la transition énergétique s'animent, ce livre réunit les analyses scientifiques de chercheurs issus d'horizons institutionnels différents. L'objectif est de mutualiser, en un seul ouvrage et pour la première fois, les connaissances et les a…
Rethinking embodied knowledge and household consumption
Practices, movement and circulation: Implications for sustainability
Bibliographie générale
International audience
Inégalités écologiques: Analyse spatiale des impacts générés et subis par les ménages belges
L’objectif de l’article est d’explorer les méthodes pour présenter les inégalités écologiques sur un territoire donné. Nous commençons par définir les inégalités écologiques afin de rendre cette notion opératoire pour des traitements statistiques et cartographiques. Nous interprétons les inégalités écologiques en deux sens : inégalités face aux pollutions et aux dégradations de l’environnement, et inégalités en termes d’impacts sur l’environnemen…
Challenging social norms to recraft practices: A Living Lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight European countries
ENERGISE is the first large-scale European effort to reduce household energy use through a change initiative that adopted a ‘living lab’ approach informed by social practice theory. Two challenges were introduced to 306 households in eight countries: to lower indoor temperatures and to reduce laundry cycles. This contribution demonstrates the usefulness of a practice-centered design that takes habits and routines as an entry point for understandi…
Rethinking embodied knowledge and household consumption
Alternative and Resistance Movements: The Two Faces of Sustainability Transformations
Making "Sustainable Consumption" Matter: The Indoor Microclimate as Contested Cultural Artifact
This article demonstrates how a cultural reading of consumption that focuses on the meaning and materiality of domestic indoor microclimates can contribute to conceptual developments in the field of practice theory that refocus attention on cultural patterns, including prevailing norms and prescriptions regarding indoor temperature and thermal comfort. Drawing on evidence collected during a research-led change initiative that encouraged people to…
Transforming innovation for decarbonisation? Insights from combining complex systems and social practice perspectives
Technological innovations seem to be among the great promises for achieving the urgent modernisation of economies towards carbon-neutrality. Ranging from fusion energy, bio-based fuels, carbon capture and storage to PV panels and so-called smart energy systems, plenty of technologies promise to reduce use or greenhouse gas emissions of carbon based energy sources. This techno-centric view disregards to a great extent that technological change aff…
Transformations énergétiques sous contrainte écologique forte
L'idée d'une « transition » énergétique, processus pilotable dans un monde relativement stable et anticipable, semble arriver à son terme. Même le GIEC en appelle désormais à des « transformations » énergétiques rapides et radicales. Toutefois, malgré la prise de conscience de l'urgence climatique et de la perte dramatique de biodiversité, qui s'actualise notamment dans une série de manifestations et de luttes, la question du climat est trop rare…
Inégalités écologiques: Analyse spatiale des impacts générés et subis par les ménages belges
L’objectif de l’article est d’explorer les méthodes pour présenter les inégalités écologiques sur un territoire donné. Nous commençons par définir les inégalités écologiques afin de rendre cette notion opératoire pour des traitements statistiques et cartographiques. Nous interprétons les inégalités écologiques en deux sens : inégalités face aux pollutions et aux dégradations de l’environnement, et inégalités en termes d’impacts sur l’environnemen…
Bibliographie générale
International audience
Practices, movement and circulation: Implications for sustainability
Rethinking embodied knowledge and household consumption
Sociologie de l'énergie: Gouvernance et pratiques sociales
Affaire de société, enjeu politique, objet de controverses, l'énergie est devenue depuis une quinzaine d'années un sujet de recherche de première importance pour les sociologues. Alors que les débats autour de la transition énergétique s'animent, ce livre réunit les analyses scientifiques de chercheurs issus d'horizons institutionnels différents. L'objectif est de mutualiser, en un seul ouvrage et pour la première fois, les connaissances et les a…
Emergent transformation games: Exploring social innovation agency and activation through the case of the Belgian electricity blackout threat
Pel, B., G. Wallenborn, and T. Bauler. 2016. Emergent transformation games: exploring social innovation agency and activation through the case of the Belgian electricity blackout threat. Ecology and Society 21(2):17.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08346-210217
Alternative and Resistance Movements: The Two Faces of Sustainability Transformations
Transforming innovation for decarbonisation? Insights from combining complex systems and social practice perspectives
Technological innovations seem to be among the great promises for achieving the urgent modernisation of economies towards carbon-neutrality. Ranging from fusion energy, bio-based fuels, carbon capture and storage to PV panels and so-called smart energy systems, plenty of technologies promise to reduce use or greenhouse gas emissions of carbon based energy sources. This techno-centric view disregards to a great extent that technological change aff…
Transformations énergétiques sous contrainte écologique forte
L'idée d'une « transition » énergétique, processus pilotable dans un monde relativement stable et anticipable, semble arriver à son terme. Même le GIEC en appelle désormais à des « transformations » énergétiques rapides et radicales. Toutefois, malgré la prise de conscience de l'urgence climatique et de la perte dramatique de biodiversité, qui s'actualise notamment dans une série de manifestations et de luttes, la question du climat est trop rare…
Making "Sustainable Consumption" Matter: The Indoor Microclimate as Contested Cultural Artifact
This article demonstrates how a cultural reading of consumption that focuses on the meaning and materiality of domestic indoor microclimates can contribute to conceptual developments in the field of practice theory that refocus attention on cultural patterns, including prevailing norms and prescriptions regarding indoor temperature and thermal comfort. Drawing on evidence collected during a research-led change initiative that encouraged people to…
Challenging social norms to recraft practices: A Living Lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight European countries
ENERGISE is the first large-scale European effort to reduce household energy use through a change initiative that adopted a ‘living lab’ approach informed by social practice theory. Two challenges were introduced to 306 households in eight countries: to lower indoor temperatures and to reduce laundry cycles. This contribution demonstrates the usefulness of a practice-centered design that takes habits and routines as an entry point for understandi…
Developing a minifesta for effective academic-activist collaboration in the context of the climate emergency
Justice-oriented climate activism is proliferating. Many scholars aspire to deliver research that supports activism. However, measures of impact for research evaluation and funding purposes place little weight on the use of research by activists. Here we consider how academics and academia might effectively support and enable climate activism. We report outcomes from a series of online deliberative workshops involving both activists and academics…
New insights into thermal comfort sufficiency in dwellings
Domestic heating is a major contributor to energy consumption and must be minimised to achieve climate targets. Building on the concept of addressing the distinct heating needs of individuals and buildings separately, the Slowheat project implemented a three-year transdisciplinary real-world laboratory focusing on adaptive heating practices. This initiative involved 23 households in Brussels, Belgium, in a collaborative exploration of the suffici…
SlowHeat, une recherche-action participative pour expérimenter et co-définir une pratique de chauffage sobre
Future directions for sustainable consumption research and action
This article identifies ten priorities for future sustainable consumption research and action, prioritising questions of (in)justice. It emerged from a series of interdisciplinary exchanges between sustainable consumption scholars from across Europe, reflecting their expert perspectives and research practices.
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)