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International interview

International interview. The Manchester-Lancaster approach to Bathrooms and Kitchens. Points for discussion. Discussing KB’s The Manchester/Lancaster approach Main claims/character Relation to transition theory Three level model Direction of innovation/change

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International interview

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  1. International interview The Manchester-Lancaster approach to Bathrooms and Kitchens

  2. Points for discussion • Discussing KB’s • The Manchester/Lancaster approach • Main claims/character • Relation to transition theory • Three level model • Direction of innovation/change • Interrelation between different levels • Relation to sociological theories on agency and technology • The future of the program • (theory of) Environmental change • International network

  3. Discussing Kitchens and Bathrooms • Silly stuff? • Reducing complexity? Or Enhancing messy-ness • Meaningful categories from everyday life • Open to multi-disciplinary debates

  4. The Manchester-Lancaster Approach • Technology and Everyday Life • Innovative Indeed • Series of books and papers • Fitting very well into emerging discussion on the need to theorize and organize transitions towards more sustainable food/energy/housing ways of life • KB’s as: • A: Complex (technical) systems and innovation junctions • B: Locales for ordinary, routine everyday life practices

  5. A: KB’s as complex systems, innovation junctions • CCC-book as landmark • Transition-theory/ three level model used to • Define KB’s at regime level • Discuss situated character of domestic practices • Discuss landscape-changes ‘behind’ latest fashions • Discuss direction of change/innovations: bottom-up and/or top-down dependent from empirical domain? • Discuss interrelation between different level processes and dynamics • Allan/Elizabeth/Dale on time-space organization of everyday life against background of ‘fluidization of modernity’?

  6. A: Landscape changes • How to be identified/named • Work to Lifestyle kitchen? • Bathing to Showering • Collective to individualized consumption? • Functional to esthetic/expressive? • Stand-alone to integrated? • Provision to Access? • Environment as sobering to Sustainable Development as multi-dimensional extra quality? • Multifunctional Space to functional specification to multiple spaces with multiple functions?

  7. A: Landscape changes • How to be explained/ connected to wider social changes • Norbert Elias on functionalization of spaces? • Ulrich Beck on Hyper-individualization • Jeremy Rifkin on the age of access • Postmodern theory on the body? • Mutual benefits from connecting KB-changes to these theories

  8. B: KB’s as locales for ordinary, routine everyday life practices • Technology and Practice • Large Technical System Approaches • ANT-theory • Flow-network theory • Structuration theory, including Bourdieu • Still to be developed into a more integrated perspective with its own name/brand?

  9. B: KB’s as locales for ordinary, routine everyday life practices • Technologies and Practices : dual approach • “Orchestration of demand”: Sunk meanings, fixed choices in the infrastructures of everyday life (deterministic ring to it) • “Appropriation of technologies” as the active, gendered, skilful accomplishments that matter (voluntaristic agents) • Specific dynamics of Change: De- and re-routinization of long-estabished routines

  10. The future of the program/ approach • A: Link up with theories on environmental change and policy • B: Further strengthen the international networks on this research • C: Develop also into quantitative methodology directions

  11. A: Link up with theories on environmental change and policy • (Dale) “sets of green choices”: orchestrated and appropriated but also • Studied best as ‘clustered’ on the level of social practices • Environmentally relevant • Driven by ideas, desires, procedures • Overall characteristics: monitoring, monetarization, construction of green choice

  12. A: Link up with theories on environmental change and policy (C) • Constructing green choices = a hierarchy of quality aspects framed in SD-language, matching the diversifying sets of consumer concerns for sustainable development worldwide

  13. B: International networks • Build upon Lancaster network • Use ISA/ESA and similar networks • Link up with transition network? • Develop European program on this?

  14. International networks • And please INVITE us again since it is INNOVATIVE and INTERESTING

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