Welcome to a K3 seminar with Sara Gottschalk and\nJuliana Restrepo, PhD students in Interaction Design. At the talk they will\npresent their ongoing PhD projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The title of Sara Gottschalk\u2019s talk\nis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sustainability for rent? Designerly approaches for forms of sustainable\nliving.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The title of Juliana Restrepo\u2019s talk\nis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Relational Home-making \u2013 An everyday practice focused on existing and\npotential relations between home, nature and systems.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n They will take place on Wednesday,\nNovember 6 at\n10.15-12.00 in The K3 Open Studio, NIC 0541, Niagara. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Below\nyou will find abstracts for the talks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Abstract Juliana Restrepo:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My research positions itself in relation to metadesign, home\ngeographies, feminist theories and sustainability research. The overall focus\nis on (future) homes and sustainability. I will use the term ‘Relational\nhome-making’ as a concept that focuses on situated care and ethics, and that\nnurture people\u2019s curiosity to acknowledging the constitutive relations between\nwhat is visible\/invisible, included\/excluded, wanted\/unwanted; in practices\nthat create, maintain and develop home(s) and feeling of home(s). <\/p>\n\n\n\n I am interested in exploring how different meanings, narratives, habits\ncreate different everyday understandings of home. This exploration will\nconsider a broader perspective about the meaning of ‘home’ while reflecting on\nthe interdependence between a home with its location and the interactions\nwithin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The project aims at building a collection of everyday stories and to\nco-design ‘new tales’ (stories of practical knowledge) that can create\ntransdisciplinary understandings about how to care and nurture for our homes through\nsensitization, preparation and collaboration. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keywords and concepts: \nHome-making, wisdom, resilient, re-orientation, preparation, know-how,\nsurvival, everyday doing, well-being<\/p>\n\n\n\n Abstract Sara Gottschalk:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My research starts in an interest in the relationship between design,\nsocietal transformations for sustainability and adaptation to climate- and\nenvironmental changes. In this transformation, home and housing has a strong\nconnection both to the individual and society at large, and plays a central\nrole to enable various forms of sustainable living. Though many sustainable\nconcepts are being proposed for new buildings, my interest lies in the\ntransformation of the existing housing stock and the possibilities of doing\nthis process in a democratic and collaborative manner, with a special focus on\ntenants\u00b4 position and participation in this transformation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At this seminar I wish to discuss:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Swedish average environmental impact, can be expressed as about\n10TCO2e*<\/a> per capita (2016) (1) or as consumption\nequivalent to about 4 planets\/year (2018) (2), a clearly – environmentally and\nsocially \u2013 unsustainable standard of living. In Sweden, as well as globally,\nthis impact is unequal distributed, but as a quantitative measurement it gives\na hint of what is considered as \u201ca normal way of living\u201d. The first Swedish\nenvironmental goal (3) stipulates a society without net greenhouse gas\nemissions after 2045, and a truly sustainable consumption level means\nconsumption within \u201cone planet\u201d. It is hard not to interpret these numbers as a\ncall for major changes of \u201cthe normal way of living\u201d, both as individuals and\nthe Swedish society as a whole. Solutions for changes, technologically,\neconomically, politically, culturally and behaviorally are being proposed, but\nefforts made so far, are not enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the richer parts of the world, lifestyle changes are at the very\nheart of sustainable change, connecting the everyday life of individuals to\ninfrastructural organizations of the society. One aspect of this infrastructure\nis housing, where and how we live. In Sweden, a deep split in the housing\nmarket has become evident, where sustainability\/unsustainability is used in two\ncompletely different ways. One the one hand environmental sustainability being\nbranded in new built \u201cflag-ship\u201d areas such as V\u00e4stra Hamnen in Malm\u00f6 (4),\nKvilleb\u00e4cken in Gothenburg (5) and Hammarby sj\u00f6stad in Stockholm (6); all areas\ncriticized for being targeted towards middle-class\/upper-middle-class, and\nthrough \u201ctech-fixes\u201d and relative sustainability, green-washing life-styles\nwith rather large environmental impact. On the other hand, the social dimension\nbeing discussed in terms of the unsustainable segregation, \u201crenoviction\u201d\n(\u201crenovr\u00e4kning\u201d) and a dysfunctional building market targeting another group of\npeople. The current debate about the Swedish housing situation is dominated by\nthe shortage of affordable housing, especially tenure apartments, mainly in the\nthree major cities. The urgent need to build affordable housing has sparked a\ndiscussion of building with lower standards of quality. The \u00a7marketisation of\nthe housing sector has contributing to the consumerist view of home as an\nobject of investment, and interior design as something to wear and tear,\ncontributing to increased pressure on natural resources. From this perspective,\nenvironmental and social sustainability does not meet in the Swedish housing\ndiscussion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n With this background I see a great importance for alternative ways to\naddress, interpret, develop and give form to various ways of sustainable\nliving, and how to make them robust enough to meet future challenges of\nclimate- and environmental changes. In Sweden, 51% of the housing stock\nconsists of apartments, of which just over 59% are tenure apartments (11). I\nhave a special interest in the tenant’s position and opportunities to\nparticipate in the design process of various sustainable living formats. In accordance with Allbolagen from 2011 (12) all tenants\nare to be offered co-influence in the housing and in the housing company (13).\nToday, there is no praxis in how this is to be done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This also requires a better understanding of forms for sustainable\nliving. One approach to sustainability is to focus on environmental\nand social goals of the sustainable development concept, giving the economic\ndimension a subordinated role, either embedded as a mean in social\nsustainability or simply as an outcome of environmental and social goals\ninstead of a goal in itself. This can be exemplified in models such as the Global Sustainable\nDevelopment Quadrant (8), the critical and heterodox doughnut economy model (9) and\nrecently in the Swedish research project Beyond BNP (10). This approach on\nsustainability is something I am interesting to elaborate with in a housing\ncontext. <\/p>\n\n\n\n *<\/a> Emissions embedded in\nproduction from abroad included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to a K3 seminar with Sara Gottschalk and Juliana Restrepo, PhD students in Interaction Design. At the talk they will present their ongoing PhD projects. The title of Sara Gottschalk\u2019s talk is: Sustainability for rent? Designerly approaches for forms … Continue reading Introduction:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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