Studies show that utility bills are a high priority when people in underserved communities are deciding how to spend their paychecks. Most everyone in these communities pay their energy bill on time, and we use that fact to create profitable projects. Our thesis is that the credit risk is actually significantly lower than other investors recognize and that we can significantly lower customer acquisition and engineering costs through our community organizing approach and our suite of software and hardware tools. The community is underserved by the energy industry, by solar companies, by banks, and utilities because of perceived credit risk and the high cost of customer acquisition. The return on a dollar of investment in upgrading energy infrastructure in these communities is significantly higher than any other community. These are the people, buildings, and communities who’ve had the least amount of investment in building infrastructure while spending the most on energy (on a per square foot basis). We sat down with Morris to learn more about how they’re bringing together communities to solve urban energy challenges: Why did BlocPower design a solution for this market?īlocPower is focused on clean energy solutions for building owners in financially underserved urban communities. They started out with intentional observation of their customers needs and experiences, solving unique problems before raising money from Andreessen Horowitz and Kapor Capital and evolving into a company that uses software, sensors, and data analytics to scale their vision in cities across the country. Their company provides clean energy services and financing to financially underserved communities in urban areas, in part by aggregating portfolios or “blocs” of projects.Īt its heart, BlocPower’s story is a compelling example of human-centered design applied to business model development. Morris Cox (L), co-founder and Chief Investment Officer, and Donnel Baird (R) founder and CEO of BlocPowerĪfter working in politics and community organizing, founder and CEO Donnel Baird met his co-founder Morris Cox while they were both at Columbia Business School (Morris previously worked in finance). To learn more about Hacke's soundtrack for "Transflexion," INDRA, visit here. To further exemplify these ideas, “Transflexion: The Net of Mirrors” features artists from a variety of backgrounds and is set to appear in several different cities around the world. Mirroring means to structure reality by repeating, distorting, combining its elements. ![]() Artists and art works are the mirrors, those influence the way of reflection by their individual nature. It can close connections between screens or devices, between spaces and ideas, between physical and virtual levels. Mirroring implicates reflection in form and content. The interdependence of several visual works and one sound effectively create a show that is never the same, every showing, every moment. Afterwards the perception is different at the next art work. The inner structure of the show represents the idea.Īfter watching one art piece the sound changes its nature in the observer. ![]() The sound expands the single video works and vice versa each autonomous visual changes the perception of the sound. Six artists working in video/time-based media will create the visual aspects of the show, while a singular soundtrack created by Alexander Hacke will loop independently. The dynamic nature of the circuits of communication between multiple objects and infinite reflections-the stuff of the communal fabric itself-are another aspect illuminated by “Transflexion: The Net of Mirrors.” Moments reflecting upon moments, and moments… The concept evolves with each presentation. The concept underpinning “Transflexion: The Net of Mirrors” has to do with "Dependent Origination,” which states that “all things arise in dependence upon multiple causes and conditions.” The growing realization of the interconnected nature of existence is the starting point for the six visual works playing to a single, unsynchronized, soundtrack. “Transflexion: The Net of Mirrors” begins its evolution: transforming from an installation-based art+sound event, to a single-channel entity presented in a new site, a new city. Soundtrack created by: Alexander Hacke (New York/Berlin) Single-channel, multi-artist video + sound exhibition
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