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Practice-ing thermal comfort: Is home heating and cooling all about energy behaviours? Auckland, New Zealand London, United Kingdom Brendan Doody PhD Candidate, Durham University London, United Kingdom 52% CO 2 London, United Kingdom The ABC


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Practice-ing thermal comfort:

Is home heating and cooling all about energy behaviours? Brendan Doody

PhD Candidate, Durham University

Auckland, New Zealand London, United Kingdom

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London, United Kingdom

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London, United Kingdom

52% CO2

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The ABC of behaviour change

Systemic Individualistic

Attitudes, Behaviour, Choice Socio-technical systems

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Practice-ing behaviour change

  • 1970s: Bourdieu (1977) and Giddens (1984)

Systems Individuals

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Practice-ing behaviour change

Systems Practices Individuals

  • 1970s: Bourdieu (1977) and Giddens (1984)
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Value of practice theory

  • Moves beyond:

agency/structure

  • Routine,

mundane, everyday

  • ‘Carried out’
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Moving beyond energy?

Lounges: 91% Dining Rooms: 73% Bedrooms: 36% Kitchens: 48%

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Moving beyond energy?

Lounges: 91% Dining Rooms: 73% Bedrooms: 36% Kitchens: 48%

Mostly we just heat this living room […] and the rest of the house we just don’t even heat. So it is like running from a nice living room to snuggle under the duvets. [Sarah, early 30s, Christchurch]

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Thermal comfort

  • Not a-social: physiological experience
  • Socially and historically situated
  • Collective conventions and co-evolves
  • Meanings varies: time, space and place
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Thermal comfort

  • Not a-social: physiological experience
  • Socially and historically situated
  • Collective conventions and co-evolves
  • Meanings varies: time, space and place

94% Use 20% Use

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Practicing thermal comfort

Auckland, New Zealand London, United Kingdom

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Practicing thermal comfort

Auckland, New Zealand London, United Kingdom

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(Re)configuring thermal comfort

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The elements of practices

  • 3. Common

understandings: meanings

  • 1. Practical

understanding, embodied habits, know-how

  • 2. Rules, knowledge,

language

  • 4. Products, things,

technologies

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Objectives

  • 1. How the ways of changing behaviour have

been understood previously

  • 2. People’s current thermal comfort practices
  • 3. Ways in which current thermal comfort

practices might be re-configured