Author Archives: Simone Gristwood

Creating pleasance: new needs for the smart home. Yolande Strengers

Posted on June 10, 2016

This talk draws on an international content analysis of online and magazine articles exploring the ideas embedded in visions for the 21st Century smart home. In particular, I analyse smart home advocates' pursuit of  'pleasance' - an ambient and electrically-enabled aesthetic experience which brings 'comfort, romance and peace of mind' into the home (Lutron 2015). Through a series of…

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Is being incompetent and ignorant all the bad? Insights from the transition to energy saving light bulbs in Denmark. Mikkel Bille

Posted on May 26, 2016

Seminar held: Tuesday 24th May 2016 When new technologies are introduced there is a learning process involved where people need to adjust or invent practices, meanings and knowledge. For instance, as this presentation discusses, the new energy saving light bulb has forced us to think in new ways about light: From the black-boxed Watt to the white-boxed lumen, kelvin, ra. But such…

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The temporal dynamics of being an international visiting scholar

Posted on May 16, 2016

Yolande Strengers & Mikkel Bille Academia is increasingly concerned with international connections and collaboration. While the benefits of such endeavours are increasingly discussed (Glover et al. 2016), we rarely acknowledge their effects. In this short piece of writing we are interested in the ways in which one globalising move — the appointment of the ‘visiting academic’ —…

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Emerging energy practices around decentralised storage of electricity. Sanneke Kloppenburg and Nick Verkade

Posted on May 10, 2016

In this seminar, Wageningen and Eindhoven University researchers Sanneke Kloppenburg and Nick Verkade will present the overarching research proposal and their plans for fieldwork in the UK.  They will also reflect on some of the first findings from their interviews and document study on community energy storage as a distinct storage mode in the UK. Storage is often identified as a key…

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The Mobility of the “Uber” Generation: Investigating Individual Attitudes, Lifestyles, Residential Location and Adoption of Shared Mobility of Millennials in California. Giovanni Circella

Posted on May 4, 2016

Passenger travel is going through a time of great transformation in the United States as well as in other countries. Young adults ("millennials"), in particular, are reported to behave (and travel) differently from previous generations at the same stage in life: they postpone the time they obtain a driver's license, often choose to live in urban locations and not to own a car, drive less even…

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