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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
London, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom 52% CO 2 London, United Kingdom The ABC of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
London, United Kingdom 52% CO 2 London, United Kingdom The ABC of - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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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