Seminars

Wednesday 21st February 2018       Accommodating algorithms: Rules, regularities, and infrastructural power in municipal traffic management Susann Wagenknecht, University of Siegen, Germany. and DEMAND visitor In scripting the stop and go of urban mobility, traffic infrastructures are shaped by federal laws and legally-binding engineering guidelines and by the…

Wednesday 28th February, 2018 Doing Retiring - The Social Practices of Transiting into Retirement and their Implications for Energy Demand Abstract With the ageing of the ‘Baby Boomer’ cohort, more and more adults are transiting from working life into retirement. This transition facilitates a variety of – more and less severe - changes to daily life, like getting up later, but is…

12th December 2017   Sustainable Living in Communal Housing Projects Benjamin Görgen, Institute of Sociology, University of Münster, Germany If society is to cope with problems of climate  change and global inequality there will need to be a  sustainable transformation that affects all domains of social life . Different forms of communal housing and living are often…

Benoit Granier Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies, Sciences Po Paris and DEMAND Visitor Pathways of change:  Cool Biz and the reconditioning of energy demand in office life In 2005 the Japanese government introduced ‘Cool Biz’ – a policy designed to reduce CO2 emissions by changing office dress codes (removing jacket and tie) and limiting the amount of energy used for…

22nd November 2017, 16.00-18.00         The energy-time-bind Kimberley O'Sullivan, University of Otago, Wellington: DEMAND visitor Does working from home save energy? Discussions of this topic in research and policy have largely focussed on transport savings and potential energy demand reductions in the commercial sector.  Debates like these often…