Author Archives: Simone Gristwood

Batteries, chargers and plugs: charting the energy demands of mobile communication. Alan Wiig

Posted on February 26, 2015

The use of smartphones to access the Internet while on the move is a common aspect of everyday, personal mobility in the twenty-first century. Transit, weather, and social media applications (apps) engage individuals’ attention during commutes, but the energy demands needed to power computing devices leads many users to employ creative, informal actions around charging batteries in…

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Reading Group: 24 February 2015

Posted on February 25, 2015

Discussion of draft paper by Giulio Mattioli & Jillian Anable, 'Gross polluters for food shopping travel: a practice based typology'.

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Sociology of architecture and cultural heritage: A praxeological approach. Hilmar Schäfer

Posted on January 29, 2015

Hilmar, who is visiting DEMAND for three months, introduced a series of ideas about the relation between materials, practices, architecture and cultural heritage. At first sight, these issues are only tangentially relevant to DEMAND, but the more he talked the more connections we saw. Some of these have to do with concepts of nature, culture and built forms. For example, methods of defining…

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Society pushes to go faster, but data binges carry environmental costs

Posted on January 27, 2015

By Mike Hazas, Lancaster University Originally published in (more…)

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Listen to DEMANDers

Posted on January 20, 2015

We have recorded some DEMAND sound bites which are available on Soundcloud. A few general clips about DEMAND and it’s key ideas are available below:

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