Author Archives: Simone Gristwood

Reading Group: 14 October 2014

Posted on November 27, 2014

Elizabeth Shove, Matt Watson and Nicola Spurling discussed the draft article for the European Journal of Social Theory, special issue on climate change.

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Climate Change in the Media and in Everyday Life: A UK-Taiwan Comparison of Energy Use and Its Media Representation, 17-21 November 2014

Posted on November 21, 2014

This workshop was held as part of a week-long visit of four DEMAND academics to Taipei and specifically to the National Chenghi University. This was the first part of an international partnership and mobility project (funded by the British Academy and Taiwanese Ministry of Science and Technology) that runs for a year until November 2015. (more…)

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Book Chapters in Social Practices, Intervention and Sustainability: Beyond behaviour change

Posted on November 20, 2014

In Strengers, Y & C. Maller (eds) (2015)  Social Practices, Intervention and Sustainability: Beyond behaviour change, Routledge. Chapters by DEMANDers: Linking low carbon policy and social practice, Elizabeth Shove Beyond individual responsibility: Social practice, capabilities and the right to environmentally sustainable ways of living, Gordon Walker Interventions in…

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Is my vacuum cleaner actually broken or just my attitude to maintenance? Giuseppe Salvia

Posted on November 13, 2014

Giuseppe who works for the UK INDEMAND Centre at Nottingham gave a really excellent talk about vacuum cleaners. More accurately, he gave a talk about how intersecting commercial pressures act together to reduce product life, generate obsolescence, and configure human-material interactions that are prone to breaking down. (more…)

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Why room temperature needed to be taken down a notch

Posted on November 5, 2014

By Gordon Walker, Lancaster University Originally published in (more…)

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