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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Data Byte: Peak Dinner

Posted on November 9, 2014

One of the problems troubling the UK electricity industry is how to deal with domestic evening  'peak' demand, especially in winter. From a DEMAND point of view this means we need to understand what happens during the evening period. If we know what practices lead to the emergence of 'peak' then we might be able to think about ways those practices could be re-configured to avoid costly…

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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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Social practices, energy demand and time use data –methodological lessons from DEMAND, 17 October 2014

Posted on October 17, 2014

This workshop provided an opportunity to present, share and discuss some of the analysis techniques developed and data challenges encountered in DEMAND so far and to bring together others working on energy, mobility and Time Use data. Results and data challenges from these analyses were presented to provoke discussion on the main advantages and challenges of using Time Use data to investigate…

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