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- Andersson, Réka, 1981-, et al.
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Researching Everyday Practices Through Workshops
- 2022
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Workshops provide a flexible approach to study complex issues through socio-material practices and this paper discusses the methodological considerations involved in doing research through workshops. The paper builds on two research projects where workshops were used to study the practices of professionals’ use of digital tools at a consultancy firm and the everyday life of residents in a newly built city district. While the workshops targeted different groups and had different forms, they both made use of material expressions to visualise everyday practices. We reflect on how we can make use of workshops to study professional and everyday practices and how knowledge is enacted in the different workshops. Building on a socio-material relations approach we discuss our choices in designing workshops, the analytical processes involved and the consequences these choices have on what knowledge we create in interaction with the participants.
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- Blomqvist, Stefan, 1988-, et al.
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Ten years of energy efficiency—Exploring the progress of barriers and drivers in the swedish residential and services sector
- 2022
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In: Energy Reports. - : Elsevier. - 2352-4847. ; 8, s. 14726-14740
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Making buildings more energy efficient is an important part of achieving the European Union's energy and climate goals, which several directives, policies, and measures has addressed over the years. This paper aims to study changes over a 10-year period in perception on barriers to and drivers for energy efficiency in the Swedish building sector and identifying success factors. The data collection consists of surveys conducted in 2010 and 2020 among organizations that mainly build, own, and manage multi-dwelling buildings. Besides the overall result, special focus is given to changes depending on type of ownership, size of organization, and organizational hierarchy. Lack of time or other priorities and slim organizations remain the most important barriers, which is most evident among small organizations. Reducing cost remains the major driver. The uncertainty surrounding a rising energy price has diminished and cost-effective solutions are more adaptable. More capital for energy efficiency is available, particularly in the private sector. Furthermore, the result acknowledges the impact of regulatory measures. The study recognizes a connection between organizational development and the integration of energy efficiency in an organizations’ agenda. Future challenges are related to hidden costs and knowledge acquisition.
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- Calvén, Alexandra, et al.
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From vision to reality – integrating energy goals in the development of a new urban district in Sweden
- 2024
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In: eceee 2024 Summer Study Proceedings. - 9789198827026 - 9789198827033
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Urban areas play an important role in attaining the sustainability and energy goals set by municipalities. Despite the often ambitious sustainability visions and goals for new urban areas, there is limited understanding of how these aspirations are integrated into the planning and development process. This paper aims to provide insights into how energy-related visions and goals, in a new district in Sweden, are formulated and further translated into instruments employed by the municipality. Brunnshög, a new sustainability-profiled district in Lund envisioned to become a leading example of sustainable urban development, is used as a case study. The district’s long-term energy goal is to generate more energy than what is used, emphasizing a strong focus on energy efficiency and local renewable energy generation. Key to Brunnshög’s energy strategy is the implementation of the world’s largest low-temperature district heating network supplied with excess heat from two high-tech research facilities. The planning process for Brunnshög began in 2006 and the district is expected to be completed in 2055, accommodating an estimated 40,000 residents and workers.Adopting a municipal planning perspective, this paper combines analysis of planning documents with interviews conducted with developers and the municipality’s project manager for Brunnshög. The results provide an overview of how the energy-related visions and goals for Brunnshög have been included in the planning documents for the district and describe the utilization of three instruments used by the municipality to achieve these visions and goals: (1) collaboration contract with the local energy company, (2) land allocation competitions, and (3) sustainability agreements with the developers.The formulation of visions and goals for Brunnshög, divided into long-term visionary goals and more immediate operational goals, allows for adjustments of specific aspects based on changing circumstances while still maintaining a commitment to broader visions and goals. The translation of energy goals into commitments is an evolving process, with the level of ambition influenced by factors such as the demand for housing and office space, competition among developers, and prevailing sustainability trends. This paper concludes that the integration of sustainability criteria into land allocation competitions is a powerful instrument for driving ambitious building projects. However, in contexts where the municipality lacks ownership of the land or faces subdued market conditions, there is a need for additional tools to be developed. Furthermore, sustainability agreements with developers serve as an important tool to track the sustainability commitments made in land allocation competitions. However, implementing a more systematic review and evaluation of these agreements, including long-term assessments, is necessary to learn from the experiences and hold the actors accountable. The findings of this study contribute to a better understanding of how energy goals can be sustained throughout lengthy urban development processes. Insights gained from development processes such as Brunnshög are essential for implementing the necessary changes to decrease the climate impact of new urban development projects and to mainstream the practices of sustainable urban development.
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- Chu, Wanjun, 1991-
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On the other side of change : Exploring the role that design can play in retaining sustainable doings
- 2021
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The world keeps changing more rapidly. Induced by context change disruptions such as individual life-course changes and macro socio-economical events, the way people carry out their everyday life doings is also undergoing a dynamic transition process, which may open up windows of opportunity for design to transit people’s behavior in a more sustainable direction.A successful behavior transition entails not only changing people’s wrongdoings but also retaining the existing desired doings. However, over the last decade, the field of Design for Sustainable Everyday Life seems to have grown accustomed to the concept of change. The potential role that design may play in retaining people’s existing sustainable doings has been ill-addressed. This dissertation aims to develop an activity-based theoretical approach to help design researchers and practitioners better understand how people transit behavior when they undergo context change disruptions, and further explore design implications informed by the sustainable behavior retention perspective.The study comprises two parts. In the first part, six explorative case studies were used to investigate the applicability of adopting activity theory (AT) as a theoretical lens for understanding context change-induced behavior transition phenomena. As a result, an AT-based framework was iterated, developed and validated. In the second part, by incorporating the proposed framework with the theoretical understanding generated from a prescriptive meta-synthesis study, an AT-informed toolkit prototype was developed and evaluated.Three key findings can be identified. First, at a conceptual level, the study reveals that the design for sustainable behavior retention perspective may complement the design for behavior change perspective by facilitating a bottom-up and context-focused relative approach to achieve sustainability. Second, at a design analytical level, three dimensions of AT: i). hierarchical structure, ii). long-term development and iii). reality-based contextual scales of analysis are especially useful for systematically analyzing the impacts of context change disruptions on people’s everyday life doings. Third, at a design synthesis level, the AT-informed design toolkit prototype and the extracted design implications can provide a systemic view that helps designers take both sustainable behavior change and retention perspectives into early-stage design ideation.The contribution of the dissertation is two folds. First, it introduces the perspective of sustainable behavior retention into the field of Design for Sustainable Everyday Life. Second, it provides an activity-based theoretical framework as a potential lens for designers to better cope with context change disruptions.
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- Eidenskog, Maria, 1981-, et al.
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Bordering Practices in a Sustainability-Profiled Neighbourhood : Studying Inclusion and Exclusion Through Fluid and Fire Space
- 2024
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In: Urban Planning. - : COGITATIO PRESS. - 2183-7635. ; 9
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Borders are essential in the current planning of cities since new forms of social relations are needed to support more sustainable ways of life. In this article, we present a case study of a sustainability-profiled new neighbourhood, Vallastaden in Sweden. We focus on how sustainability is enacted in different socio-material versions, which often include defusing borders between private and shared spaces. Shared space in Vallastaden includes spaces to facilitate meetings, such as felleshus (built as semi-communal, ground-level buildings, semi-indoor spaces, and greenhouses), winter gardens (built as rooftop, semi-private, semi-indoor, and social spaces), and the shared brook-park Broparken and farm-park Paradiset with rental allotments and communal gardens. Analysing how bordering practices create inclusion and exclusion, we study their consequences for the everyday lives of humans and non-humans in Vallastaden. We conceptualise these dynamics as fluid and fire space in order to make the ontological politics of bordering visible. Our study shows that the borders in the planned shared spaces are dynamic and create both fluid and fire space, depending on their socio-material relations. The research shows that planners need to take these heterogeneous socio-material relations into account when creating borders because, otherwise, they risk creating unfair exclusions.
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- Eidenskog, Maria, 1981-, et al.
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Enacting sustainability through glass : a study of ontological politics in the proclaimed role model neighbourhood of Vallastaden
- 2023
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In: Cultural Geographies. - : Sage Publications. - 1474-4740 .- 1477-0881. ; 30:3, s. 391-411
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article explores how sustainability is made present and visible in the life of residents in a new neighbourhood. Glass is enacted by design professionals and a Swedish municipality to create spaces for residents that fulfil sustainability objectives and put daily life on display. However, some practises developed by residents resist the intended uses of these spaces. Through a detailed case study of the proclaimed new role model neighbourhood of Vallastaden in Linkoping, Sweden, we critically investigate the ontological politics of the residents everyday life, including their social life with neighbours, low-energy living, interactions with local small businesses, recycling habits and mobility habits. By attending to glass, we show how humans, non-humans, materials and technologies become part of everyday practises and help uncover the ontological politics of mundane life.
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- Eidenskog, Maria, 1981-, et al.
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Looking Through Glass to Explore Good Relations at Home
- 2021
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In: Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting 2021.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Feelings of homeliness are built on a variety of good relations, such as to the surrounding society, with your family members and the place called home. However, not all buildings are constructed to facilitate good relations for all as individuals have different needs in relationships. In a city district framed as a role model for social sustainability and an inspiration for building designs, shared spaces in wintergardens, large glass windows in homes, laundry rooms and recycling rooms invite some relations, while excluding others. In this paper we will focus on how glass as a building material affect the relations between residents, everyday practices, the neighborhood and the built environment. The increasing use of glass in architecture is an outcome of a reach into the building design from a range of different factors, such as architectural trends, safety measures and social sustainability efforts. Exploring glass through the concept topological reach (Allen, 2016) will make the ontological politics embedded in the building designs visible and in turn show what relations are made possible.
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- Eriksson, Johanna, 1978, et al.
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Attitudes and experiences of user involvement in early stages of residential projects
- 2012
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In: ENHR Conference 2012.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- One factor influencing quality development in the building industry is the ability of users, such as residents, to identify and express their requirements for the product, i.e., the residential building. Drawing on a study of the development of user involvement in designing, producing, and managing building projects, this paper focuses on user participation in the front-end activities of residential projects. To map current perceptions and approaches, building industry actors met in four focus groups. Group participants were asked to reflect on the definition of user, how communication is handled, how information from users is used, and challenges and opportunities in involving the user. Regardless of level of experience, participants agreed on the importance and potential of user involvement and on the need for specific methods to acquire useful outputs.
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- Eriksson, Johanna, 1978, et al.
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User involvement in Swedish residential building projects : a stakeholder perspective
- 2015
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In: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. - Dordrecht, Netherlands : Springer Netherlands. - 1566-4910 .- 1573-7772. ; 30:2, s. 313-329
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- One factor influencing quality in the building industry is the ability of users, such as residents, to identify and express their requirements for the product, i.e. the residential building. However, the handling of communication with users in building projects has been insufficiently specified and studied. Drawing on a study of user involvement in building project design, production, and management, this paper examines user involvement in Swedish residential projects. To map current perceptions and approaches, building industry actors met in four focus groups. Group participants were asked to reflect on the definition of users, communication handling, how information from users is used, and challenges and opportunities in user involvement. Our initial emphasis was front-end activities, but focus group results revealed that user involvement was a continuous process extending from project initiation to evaluating the finished project as a basis for future projects. Discussions indicated confusion about who constituted users in various situations but, regardless of level of experience, focus group participants agreed on the importance and potential of user involvement and on the need for specific methods to acquire useful input.
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- Glad, Wiktoria, 1973-
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Aktiviteter för passivhus : En innovations omformning i byggprocesser för energisnåla bostadshus
- 2006
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Avhandlingen behandlar byggprocesser i södra Sverige som hade ambitionen att åstadkomma lågenergihus liknande den tyska passivhusstandarden. Syftet med avhandlingen är att öka förståelsen för processer i införandet av ett energikoncept. Energikonceptet betraktas som en innovation för användning i en sektor som av många beskrivs som konservativ och inte särskilt mottaglig för innovationer. Byggprocesserna studeras genom att händelser rekonstrueras med hjälp av berät-tande källor såsom intervjuer och protokoll från olika möten. Även observationer har använts där tillfälle funnits. Fokus riktas mot hur arbetet organiserades och beslutsprocessen bakom valet av teknik till konceptet. Även massmedias rapporte-ring om byggprocesserna har studerats och hur deltagarna i byggprocesserna marknadsförde energikonceptet.Införandet av energikonceptet kan förstås som transformationer eller om-formningar. Omformningarna bestod av fem grundläggande aktiviteter som med Hägerstrands tidsgeografiska begrepp kallas: lösgörning, formning, hopsättning, transportering och lagring. Energikonceptet lösgjordes från ett specifikt lokalt sammanhang och transporterades till ett annat där det formades för att passa nya förutsättningar och sattes ihop till ett nytt energikoncept. Det nya energikonceptet lagrades i ett nytt hus. Genom att följa människors och teknikers trajektorier kunde slutsatser angående energikonceptets svagt och starkt kopplade delar dras. De starkt kopplade delarna är byggherrens organisering av arbetet som skulle underlätta en starkare styrning. Sinnliga upplevelser av lagrade energikoncept hade betydelse för användandet. Solfångare visade sig vara en svagt kopplad teknik och behövde teknikbärare för att användas.
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- Glad, Wiktoria
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An all-ecology approach to understanding an urban planning process in Sweden – nature and culture
- 2017
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Sweden is at present undergoing one of the fastest urbanisation processes in Europe. The demand for housing in cities and town is high, at the same time as urban planning processes are perceived as slow and slowed down by different mandatory investigations and opportunities for stakeholders and the public to scrutinise the plans. This research shows how a slow process opened up for ideas that made new combinations and co-existence possible. An all-ecology approach based on ideas by Torsten Hägerstrand shows how culture and nature can be understood in terms of local togetherness, collateral processes and co-existence.
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- Glad, Wiktoria, 1973-
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Art, homes and hot water
- 2020
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In: Abstract och Sessioner, Nationella STS-dagarna 2020, Umeå universitet.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Arts-based research has been presented in previous publications and scrutinized in relation to conventional methods for academic empirical work, data collection and analyses. In this paper we propose an arts- and artist-integrated research approach as an interdisciplinary method in all parts of a research project empirically focusing on the use of hot tap water in homes. In our approach we integrate a professional artist who works with different media and techniques, has a critical and expressive language of form and explores human and nonhuman relationships, vulnerable groups, gender issues and affectional environments. The researchers have interdisciplinary backgrounds, in the humanities and social sciences, and are experienced in ethnographic work and collaborations with artists in various ways. Our art- and artist-integrated research approach includes the entire research process, from the early ideas, a pilot one-year-project, continuous work with research proposals, group discussions, an external advisory group, and planned arts- and research activities throughout the current three year research project. In this paper, we include questions about the material and the spatial, how to explore the use of hot tap water in people’s intimate spheres at home, how to be sensitive to the many versions of use enacted in hot water practices, the political connotations, how to explore and analyser the field from Mol’s political ontology and the choreography of practices and relationships. An open approach to facilitate continuous interactions and new relations between researchers and artist is key, but what are the risks, drawbacks and pitfalls we should consider at this early stage of the research project?
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- Glad, Wiktoria, 1973-, et al.
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Border topologies and bordering processes : Looking through glass to explore socio-material relations in a new neighbourhood
- 2021
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In: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2021.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The notion of borders as topological and processes could elucidate ecological and social dimensions of sustainability and aid analyses of relations between humans, non-humans and our socio-material world. In this paper we present research based on a detailed case study on a state-of-the-art new neighbourhood with political objectives to display sustainability in the built environment and housing. We focus on glass as a building material and feature to include, exclude, show and hide elements of sustainability in time-space. Some recurring components featuring glass in this neighbourhood are: Felleshus (built as semi-communal ground level buildings, semi-indoor spaces and greenhouses), Wintergardens (built as roof-top semi-private, semi-indoor and social spaces), bicycle storage rooms and spaces for household waste recycling. When humans and non-humans interact in different practices relations are dynamic and constantly negotiated; bordering processes indicate that borders are made and remade. Topological understandings of borders show how quieter registers of power find reach into this neighbourhood and homes. Political definitions of ecological and social dimensions of sustainability are found in different socio-material versions, often including glass as a feature to aid desirable bordering processes. These processes may sometimes invite sustainable interactions between humans and non-humans, sometimes reject interactions. We argue that despite the solid state of glass, it could be enacted for making ecological and social dimension of sustainability fluid and partly open, partly closed for different versions of sustainability.
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- Glad, Wiktoria
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Bostadens sociotekniska ekologi
- 2011
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In: Sammanvävt. - Linköping : Tema Teknik och Social förändring, Linköpings universitet. - 9789173932318 ; , s. 149-164
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Kan kunskap om människors vardagliga aktiviteter användas för att nå närmare målet om minskad energiförbrukning i hushållssektorn?(Kajsa Ellegård: Hushåll, energi och vardagliga aktiviteter, I J Palm & K Ellegård (red), Energi och IT. Carlssons, Stockholm, 2008, s.141-171)Inom ramen för den frågeställning Kajsa Ellegård ställer sig finns två grundläggande definitionsproblem man måste ta ställning till innan man ger sig i kast med forskningen, nämligen aktörsperspektivet som en makro eller mikrofråga och variabeln hushåll i stället för familj. I sin forskning kring energianvändning väljer Kajsa vardagslivet i hemmet som sitt perspektiv och aktiviteter i hushållet som sin analysenhet, dvs. mikroperspektivet på aktiviteter i den grupp individer som lever i samma bostad och är ekonomiskt ansvariga för de aktiviteter som försiggår där. Tillsammans med Kajsa har jag under ett antal år samarbetat i forskningsprojekt kring energieffektivisering i vardagen inom bostadssektorn. Min forskningsfråga har varit formulerad ur ett annat perspektiv på i grunden samma vardagliga aktiviteter, nämligen hur medvetna är hushållsmedlemmar om sin energikonsumtion, vilken kunskap och vilka attityder har man kring sitt energibeteende och med vilka typer av styrmedel kan man öka potentialerna för energieffektivisering i bostaden, dvs. ett aggregerat makroperspektiv på individers aktiviteter. Den kunskap de båda perspektiven ger behövs för att förstå vardagen, men också för att i samhälleliga processer påverka och förändra kunskap, värderingar och beteende kring användningen av energi som ändlig resurs. Jag vill belysa detta genom att närmare diskutera valet av undersökningsenhet, dvs. hushåll och valet av forskningsperspektiv aktörer i mikro- eller makrosammanhang.
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- Glad, Wiktoria, et al.
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Collaboration for reduced energy use in Swedish rental flats – a socio-technical perspective
- 2012
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In: Proceedings 11th IAS-STS Annual Conference 7-8 May 2012.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- People want to live a good life, what this means varies greatly between people and households, however for all it is important to have a home that is comfortable to live in. It should be warm enough, light and there should be room for mundane activities. However, this requires energy: heating, lighting and household appliances.The Swedish Parliament’s goal is to reduce energy use in residential and commercial buildings by 20% in 2020. Research shows that there is a potential in behaviour change among residents in apartment buildings as well as in the operation and maintenance of buildings, which can lead to energy savings between 15 and 30 percent.The project is based on a joint responsibility and involvement of researchers and housing company Stångåstaden, based in Linköping, Sweden, and owner of 18,600 flats. It is a 5 year project, where so far one year of research has been completed. The energy efficiency goal of Stångåstaden is 25 % by 2025.The aim of the research project is to reduce energy by applying existing and developing new knowledge and new approaches in cooperation with Stångåstaden. The general research approach is socio-technical and case study methodology. Both qualitative and quantitative data collections methods have been used. Tentative results show that it is possible to identify barriers to energy efficiency, both from residents’ and professionals’ perspectives. Conclusions are that socio-technical relationships should be developed with regard to communication, knowledge and technical system.
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- Glad, Wiktoria, et al.
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Energy efficiency learning and practice in housing for youths
- 2011
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In: Proceedings World Renewable Energy Congress 2011, Volume 3, Energy End‐Use Efficiency Issues. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. ; , s. 937-944
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper explores the energy efficiency learning and practices of youths aged 18–25 years. The studied youths are involved in a project, initiated by a municipally owned housing company, to educate residents and change everyday behaviour, making it more sustainable and energy efficient. This project, which forms our case study, covers socio–technical features such as energy systems and the individual metering and billing of heating, electricity, and hot and cold water. How did the youths perceive and use the systems? Have their attitudes and behaviours concerning energy-related practices changed during the project? The results indicate that a combination of technology (e.g. metering and visualized energy use) and social activities (e.g. educational activities and meeting neighbours and housing company staff) changed some practices involving what was perceived as energy wasting behaviour (e.g. using stand-by modes and taking long hot showers), while other practices (e.g. travelling and heating) were harder to change due to socio–technical barriers. The youths displayed knowledge gaps in relation to the energy system and their basic understanding of energy (the difference between heating and electricity).
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- Glad, Wiktoria, et al.
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Establishment and implementation of new sustainable technology in networks : an analyse of the development of passive house in Sweden
- 2008
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In: Science for Sustainable Development. The Social Challenge with Emphasis on the Conditions for Change. - Uppsala : VHU. ; , s. 141-148
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- A passive house may reduce the energy demand for heating in dwellings by 80 percent. So far, Germany has been the main market for the concept, where a limit of 15 kWh per square metre per year has been set for household heating. These buildings are extremely air tight, have thick insulation and rely mainly on passive sources of heating, for example solar heating through window panes and heat surplus from humans and domestic appliances. Since the early 2000's, passive houses have also been established on the Swedish market and this paper shows how this was achieved. Established networks within the building sector became the platform for the implementation of houses incorporating passive houses. An important part of the implementation process was the stakeholders' tactile experiences of the concept. Also, the local urban regime of Göteborg played an important role and provided resources from the municipality, academia and the Göteborg trade and industry. As a consequence, housing companies owned by the municipality were important facilitators for the establishment of passive design in housing.
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- Glad, Wiktoria, 1973-
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Everyday governance of energy systems
- 2017
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In: International High-Performance Built Environment Conference – A Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2016 Series (SBE16), iHBE 2016. - : Elsevier. ; , s. 1612-1621
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The proposed transition to a low-carbon society faces challenges, as it is occurring too slowly to achieve the goals set by international and national governmental bodies, and gaps are found between available energy-efficiency technologies and their appropriate use. The governance of domestic energy systems has attracted European research attention, and the findings illustrate how materials, competence, and meaning influence energy productivity in domestic settings and how accountability is enacted by connecting people and technologies. The present research cites Swedish examples of how energy efficiency has been improved by involving multiple local actors, such as consumers, energy utilities, property companies, and local governments. Examples are analysed through the lens of social change and mundane governance theory, illustrating how spaces and places often overlooked as too mundane to be considered in policy prove, when analysed in more detail, to be important for energy efficiency. The results indicate that “governance pairs” (e.g., “households/lighting” and “caretakers/heating systems”) are more or less successfully held together and influence accountability and governance possibilities. The present analyses demonstrate that, while governance is often portrayed in terms of causality, everyday practices involving governance pairs are messier and less predictable than anticipated. These results call for the upgrading of research into everyday life and for bottom–up approaches to energy studies. Accountability – crucial to closing the energy-efficiency gap and understood in the context of mundane governance – can advance our energy-efficiency thinking and action.
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- Glad, Wiktoria, 1973-, et al.
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Felleshus and Paradiset in Vallastaden : Care for social sustainability in a new neighbourhood
- 2020
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In recent years, the development of new neighbourhoods in Sweden has included social sustainability as an overarching aim. This research project focuses on Vallastaden (development of which began in 2017 and is still ongoing), host of Sweden’s largest built environment exhibition. The research explores how social sustainability was interpreted during the different phases of the project and how the built environment was constructed in relation to defining social sustainability. The results show that the planning process included a wide variety of stakeholders, and that social sustainability was defined broadly, with some versions being foregrounded and others backgrounded. Notably, some elements for residents, such as the socalled “felleshus” – large greenhouses with communal social spaces – and Paradiset – land designed for permaculture and urban gardening – were brought to the fore. Felleshus and Paradiset have been studied in greater detail: How have these communal spaces been developed over the last two years? Specific attention was paid to socio-material relationships. The empirical material shows various tensions between residents, activities, practices and the built environment. To deepen our understanding of the results, theoretical approaches relating to “matters of care” and ethico-political dimensions of care have guided our analyses. With these approaches, the work performed to achieve what was expected from felleshus is acknowledged, as are the effects of the work and relationship-building involved in felleshus and Paradiset. The conclusion is that social sustainability involves many processes, which might take time and evolve in unexpected directions. Openness to these processes must be taken into account when planning and constructing similar neighbourhoods.
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- Glad, Wiktoria
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Flernivåmodell för innovativa energisparåtgärder i drift, förvaltning och underhåll av byggnader : slutrapport
- 2010
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- I projektet har viktiga barriärer och drivkrafter för implementering av tekniskt möjliga och samhällsekonomiskt intressanta energisparåtgärder identifierats. De viktigaste resultaten visar att det finns strukturer internt inom fastighetsbolagen och mellan olika aktörer i branschen som motverkar ett mer innovativt klimat.För att arbeta med innovativa energisparåtgärder behövs minst fyra olika kompo-nenter: kompetens, energisparmål, strategier/handlingsplaner för att nå målen och implementering/ansvar för förverkligande. I de företag som undersöktes fanns viss kompetens, men inte tillräcklig. Samtliga företag hade energisparmål, men hand-lingsplaner saknades. Ansvar delegerades, men eftersom planen för att nå målen var obefintlig eller hade brister haltade implementeringen. Energisparande hade identifierats som viktigt men ett helhetsgrepp kring frågan saknades. En central grupp som upplevdes som bromskloss för implementeringen var ekonomerna i organisationen. En slutsats är att ekonomerna som arbetar med fastigheter behöver utbildning i möjligheter att arbeta långsiktigt med energisparåtgärder och alterna-tiva ekonomiska kalkyler för att nå målen. En annan grupp som är viktig för att mata in innovationer i fastighetsbolagen när egen kompetens saknas är konsultbo-lagen. Tyvärr upplever inte de tillfrågade fastighetsbolagen att konsulterna tillför kunskap och information om nya innovationer utan att de tenderar att hålla sig till standardiserade lösningar.För de vetenskapliga ändamålen har en flernivåmodell använts och delvis revide-rats för att passa förhållanden inom svensk fastighetssektor. I den ursprungliga modellen läggs fokus på tre nivåer: en övergripande ”landskapsnivå”, en företags- och organisationsnivå kallad ”socio-teknisk regimnivå” och en tekniknivå kallad ”tekniska nischer”. De olika nivåerna hänger samman genom att landskapsnivån är svår för enskilda organisationer att påverka medan regimnivån inbegriper orga-nisationer och teknik som ägs och kontrolleras av organisationen. Teknik och or-ganisation är sammanvävt och utgör förutsättningarna för att innovationer ska kunna få fäste. Det är regimnivån i modellen som den här rapporten huvudsakli-gen koncentreras till. Slutsatserna i den här rapporten är att det även finns klara grupperingar inom regimerna, i subregimer, som påverkar utvecklingen. Inom subregimerna finns underregimer som även de påverkar företagens inriktning.En innovativ samarbetsmodell mellan universitetet och fastighetsbolag har också prövats i projektet. För de fyra fastighetsbolag som medverkat i projektet har en ”industriforskare” från respektive företag rekryterats för att medverka aktivt i forskningsprojektet. Fastighetsbolagen identifierade själva industriforskarna utef-ter kriteriet att de skulle vara intresserade av forskning. Gruppen LiU-forskare och industriforskare träffades gemensamt en gång i månaden för att rapportera hur projektet fortskred samt planera för framtida aktiviteter. Mellan träffarna arbetade LiU-forskarna och industriforskarna med uppgifter som antingen var individuella eller gemensamma i olika konstellationer. Modellen med industriforskare syftade dels till att göra en brygga mellan universitetet och företagen för att motverka kul-turkrockar och andra hinder för kunskapsöverföring åt båda håll, dels att stärka forskargruppen genom fler medlemmar som kan medverka i det vardagliga forsk-ningsarbetet (forskningsdesign, metodval, datainsamling, analys av data och rap-portskrivande). Samarbetsmodellen behöver utvecklas för att ytterligare stärka banden mellan universitet och företag.
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Hot (water) topics : The formation of an energy issue at home
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In: eceee 2017 Summer Study on energy efficiency. - 9789198387803 - 9789198387810 ; , s. 2069-2074
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Domestic use of hot water has been identified as an urgent energy issue to address. In this paper, results from focus group interviews, with both residents and staff members, are presented. Results show that hot tap water use is differently shaped depending on whether you are a resident or a staff member. One thing in common was that in the focus groups it was difficult to separate hot tap water use from water use in general. Hot tap water use was not distinguished from use of cold tap water. To explore the issue further, the research on hot water was taken to residents’ homes and through more in-depth qualitative methods by an artist a formation process was started. Residents started to share more detailed stories about how they lived their everyday life in kitchens and bathrooms. These stories contain childhood memories and how past experience has shaped their water use and consequently their energy use patterns. The formation of this topic continued and in the artist’s interpretation of the data, three different artefacts became important: the sink, tub and toilet. These artefacts were placed in a river in the centre of a city as part of an audio walk with voices from the residents talking about their use of water. The exhibition was available during summer 2016 and the audio walk with the voices are planned to be reused and part of an exhibition in 2017.
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Housing renovation and energy systems : the need for social learning
- 2015
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In: Socio-technical perspectives on sustainable energy systems. - Linköping : Linköping University. - 9789175191041 ; , s. 15-46
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Installing new energy systems in housing is claimed to be a way to meet national and international goals for reducedgreenhouse gas emissions. A socio-technical approach, based on social learning theory, is used to examine the energysystems of a large Swedish housing project ten years after its renovation. A significant retrofitting measure was theintroduction of metering. Important lessons are identified regarding the relationships between tenants, professionalsand technical systems. The inappropriate assumptions underpinning the renovation about inhabitants’ capabilitiesand demographics meant that the dwellings were not optimally refurbished to meet user requirements, particularlywith regard to the choice of technologies and inhabitants’ interface with them. Many of the installations are hiddenfrom tenants and difficult for inhabitants to discover, explore and use. Occupants did not use the technologies (smartmeters, thermostats, etc.) as intended, which lowered performance and also increased occupants’ dissatisfaction. Thiswas also evident in the high levels of support needed by the inhabitants. Social learning processes are vital for thesuccess of demand reduction strategies. Any demand reduction approach must consider people by investing in thesocial processes and the required learning for interfacing with technology, not merely the ‘smart’ technology itself.
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- Glad, Wiktoria
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Housing renovation and energy systems: the need for social learning
- 2012
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In: Building Research & Information. - : Taylor and Francis (Routledge). - 0961-3218 .- 1466-4321. ; 40:3, s. 274-289
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Installing new energy systems in housing is claimed to be a way to meet national and international goals for reduced greenhouse gas emissions. A socio-technical approach, based on social learning theory, is used to examine the energy systems of a large Swedish housing project ten years after its renovation. A significant retrofitting measure was the introduction of metering. Important lessons are identified regarding the relationships between tenants, professionals and technical systems. The inappropriate assumptions underpinning the renovation about inhabitants capabilities and demographics meant that the dwellings were not optimally refurbished to meet user requirements, particularly with regard to the choice of technologies and inhabitants interface with them. Many of the installations are hidden from tenants and difficult for inhabitants to discover, explore and use. Occupants did not use the technologies (smart meters, thermostats, etc.) as intended, which lowered performance and also increased occupants dissatisfaction. This was also evident in the high levels of support needed by the inhabitants. Social learning processes are vital for the success of demand reduction strategies. Any demand reduction approach must consider people by investing in the social processes and the required learning for interfacing with technology, not merely the smart technology itself.
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- Glad, Wiktoria, 1973-
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Individuell mätning : mjuk reglering för minskad energianvändning i hyreslägenheter
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In: Vardagsteknik. - Stockholm : Carlsson. - 9789173311441 ; , s. 105-125
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- I detta antologibidrag analyseras introducerandet av individuell mätning och debitering av olika energitjänster i hyreslägenheter. Sådana tjänster är t.ex. varmvatten och värme inomhus, vilka tidigare varit en osynlig post på hyresavin. Syftet med denna introduktion i två bostadsområden i Sverige har varit att minska energianvändningen i hushållen. En förutsättning för att kunna administrera detta är informationsteknik och de politiska förväntningarna på denna teknik har varit stora. IT ses som ett viktigt verktyg för att nå allmänpolitiska mål såsom hållbar utveckling och miljömål såsom minskad klimatpåverkan. Samtidigt är IT en del av en "kontrollevolution" som pågått sedan 1800-talet i syfte att upprätthålla statens kontroll över samhället och t.ex. medborgarnas resursanvändning. Individuell mätning kan ses som en form av mjuk reglering där syftet är att de reglerade ska känna att de får makt över sin egen situation.
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Laundry power and care : Relational materialism, temporalities and spatialisation of communal laundering
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In: Geoforum. - : PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. - 0016-7185 .- 1872-9398. ; 127, s. 171-179
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- Laundering activities enact a range of socio-material relations and spatialisation of infrastructures such as provision of machines, water, energy, laundry and lately digitalisation. Drawing on a case study on communal laundry facilities in Sweden, this paper focuses on socio-material relations and explores laundry practices in Swedish rental housing, aiming for a theoretical contribution in the field of care, which could incorporate spatial and temporal aspects to be more inclusive. Theoretically based in topologies of power, with sensitivity to processes of spatialisation and temporalities, the analyses show how decisions about design, space and technologies influence everyday life of tenants. The paper illuminates how availability and access to laundry facilities were conformed and individualised to reach expected standards. Laundry spaces were subject to digitalisation and automation technologies introduced to meet efficiency and environmental demands and handle perceived problematic tenant practices. Conclusions are that relational materialism in the field of care and scripting processes would benefit from explicitly including theoretical thinking about space and temporality, conceptualised as choreography. The approach “thinking with care” brought backgrounded laundering phenomena to the fore and pointed out laundering as a matter we should care about. Digitalisation and automation facilitated control of shared laundry spaces and ambitions to individualise laundry made private spaces, such as bathrooms, more attractive to host laundering activities but backgrounded social dimensions of communal laundering.
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- Glad, Wiktoria
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Lokala fjärrvärmemonopol upplevs hindra utvecklingen
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In: Husbyggaren - Svenska byggingenjörers riksförbund. - 0018-7968. ; :5
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Några skäl till att fastighetsbolag inte sparar mer energi än vad de gör är lokala fjärrvärmemonopol, bristen på tid och för slimmade organisationer. Kunderna upplevs också som förvånansvärt passiva. Allt detta enligt uppgifter från fastighetsbolagen själva.
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- Glad, Wiktoria, 1973-
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Lokala och globala mål för hållbarhet
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In: Samhällsplaneringens teori och praktik. - Stockholm : Liber. - 9789147113613 ; , s. 70-76
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- Samhällsplaneringens teori och praktik beskriver områden med hög relevans för modern samhällsplanering. Läsaren introduceras till planeringens utmaningar och vilka verktyg planerare har att möta dem med. Boken är pedagogiskt utformad, rikt illustrerad och har exempel från olika delar av landet samt internationella utblickar. Den riktar sig i huvudsak till utbildningar i samhällsplanering. Eftersom frågorna är av stort allmänintresse kan boken också vara av värde för såväl praktiskt verkande planerare och offentliga aktörer som för en bred allmänhet med intresse för närmiljöns utformning.
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- Glad, Wiktoria, 1973-, et al.
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Looking through glass to explore reach in new building designs
- 2021
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Everyday practices are framed by the design of the built environment of homes. This paper explores how quieter registers of power (Allen, 2016) are enacted through the use of glass as building material and its connections to regulations, policies, political ambitions, and architectural trends. The concepts of topological reach and ontological politics are combined to put residents’ everyday practices in focus and to develop a close connection between practice in homes, building design, and actors with the ability to affect the construction industry. Topological reach will contribute to STS theories by connecting distant actors and agendas to the everyday life in homes and frame how distant proximities of power are entwined with design of homes and thus make visible the ontological politics and built-in matters of concern. This paper focus on the reach of the sustainability agenda into the everyday practices and how different versions of reach enact ontological politics in ways which create unequal access to shared spaces, homes, and sustainable housing. In our case, the quieter registers of power is a matter of concern for future homes as it is marketed asthe city district of the future and a role model for sustainable living
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Mundane governance of domestic energy systems
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The proposed transition to a low-carbon society still faces major challenges. The speed of this transition is too slow to achieve the goals set by international and national governmental bodies, and gaps are often identified between available energy-productivity technologies and their appropriate use. The governance of mundane domains such as domestic energy systems has recently attracted attention from researchers in the European context (Shove et al. 2012, Woolgar and Neyland 2013). Lessons learnt from this research illustrate how materials, competence, and meaning influence energy productivity in domestic settings (Shove et al. 2012) and how accountability is enacted by connecting people and technologies (Woolgar and Neyland 2013). The research presented here cites Swedish examples of how energy productivity has been improved by involving multiple local actors, such as consumers, energy utilities, property companies, and local governments. The examples are analysed through the lens of social change and mundane governance theories, illustrating how spaces and places often overlooked as too mundane to be considered in policy prove, when analysed in more detail, to be important for energy productivity. The results indicate that “governance pairs” (Woolgar and Neyland 2013) are more or less successfully held together and influence accountability and governance possibilities. Examples of governance pairs are “households/lighting” and “caretakers/heating system”. These analyses demonstrate that, while governance is often portrayed in terms of causality, everyday practices involving various governance pairs are messier and less predictable than anticipated. These results call for the upgrading of research into everyday life and for bottom–up approaches in energy studies. Accountability – an important part of closing the energy-efficiency gap and understood in the context of mundane governance – can advance our energy-productivity thinking and action.
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Relational materialism in passive house designs : Mundane work and tinkering in Vallastaden’s low energy buildings
- 2020
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Sweden’s new showcase mixed-use neighbourhood of Vallastaden has been designed for social and environmental sustainability, with a specific focus on citizens’ active involvement in the early phases of the planning process, and the built environment has been designed to encourage social interaction between residents. One aspect of the Vallastaden concept is low energy buildings and passive house designs. All buildings are designed to be 25% more energy efficient than the requirements of the Swedish Building Code, and 12 residential buildings have been designed as passive houses. This research project focuses on the planning, construction and management processes, and on the everyday lives of the passive houses’ residents. The paper reports on the initial research conducted with a qualitative approach, including interviews with residents and stakeholders and diaries maintained by residents. Relational materialism is our theoretical approach for analysing empirical material and guiding our understanding of the sociomaterial as being intertwined in assemblages and how different elements and entities are enacted in everyday life for low energy thermal comfort in passive houses. Our conclusion is that building design and energy system design varies between the different buildings. There are many different passive houses in Vallastaden, which come in different shapes and with multiple relationships between the social and the material. Both residents and professional groups need to work to achieve the desired levels of thermal comfort, and this work includes what seems to be endless tinkering with the different parts of the energy system and buildings. Eventually, different practices become established for mundane management of thermal comfort.
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Relational materialism in passive house designs : Mundane work and tinkering in Vallastaden low energy buildings
- 2020
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The new mixed-use neighbourhood and showcase Vallastaden in Sweden has been designed for social and environmental sustainability, with specific focus on active citizens’ involvement in the early phases of the planning process and the built environment structured to encourage social interaction between the residents. Part of the Vallastaden concept is low energy buildings and passive house designs. All 77 buildings are designed to be 25 % more energy efficient than the requirements in the Swedish building code and 12 residential buildings are designed as passive houses. This research project focus both on the planning, construction and management processes, and the passive house residents’ everyday life. The paper reports from the initial research conducted with a qualitative approach with interviews and diaries with residents and stakeholders. Relational materialism is our theoretical approach to analyse empirical material and guide an understanding of the socio-material as intertwined in assemblages and how different elements and entities are enacted in everyday life for low energy thermal comfort in the passive houses. Conclusions are that building designs and energy system design varies between the different buildings. A passive house in Vallastaden is multiple and comes in different shapes and with many relations between the social and the material. Work is included for both residents and professional groups to reach the desired thermal comfort and this work includes what seems to be endless tinkering with the different parts of the energy system and buildings. Eventually, different practices become established for mundane handling of the thermal comfort.
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