Department of the Built Environment
Phd defence by Line Kryger Aagaard
Department of the Built Environment
Auditorium 1.008
A. C. Meyers Vænge 15
2450 København SV
and Zoom
29.11.2022 13:00 - 16:00
English
Hybrid
Department of the Built Environment
Auditorium 1.008
A. C. Meyers Vænge 15
2450 København SV
and Zoom
29.11.2022 13:00 - 16:00
English
Hybrid
Department of the Built Environment
Phd defence by Line Kryger Aagaard
Department of the Built Environment
Auditorium 1.008
A. C. Meyers Vænge 15
2450 København SV
and Zoom
29.11.2022 13:00 - 16:00
English
Hybrid
Department of the Built Environment
Auditorium 1.008
A. C. Meyers Vænge 15
2450 København SV
and Zoom
29.11.2022 13:00 - 16:00
English
Hybrid
Programme
During the break, participants can email questions to the moderator or contact him or her personally in room. The moderator presents any questions received after the Q&A session with the assessment committee.
The assessment committee enters another room, evaluates and writes the final assessment.
Thesis title
Resisting or embracing the smart home: From industry visions to everyday life
Summary of the thesis
The PhD dissertation “Resisting or embracing the smart home: From industry visions to everyday life” explores how smart home technology enters Danish households and with what social consequences. Digital voice assistants, robotic vacuum cleaners and automated heating are just a few examples of the advancing technologies that are increasingly entering the home. While these technologies reconfigure the material structure of the home, they also affect social life and everyday practices. Based on qualitative studies of both technology developers and households, the dissertation provides insights on the relationship between the visions behind the technology on the one hand and everyday practices on the other. By zooming in on the technology’s role in new and existing household practices, it is shown how the smart home becomes a locus of challenges, negotiation, and conflicts, with important implications for gender roles, energy consumption, control, and power.
How to participate
This PhD defence will be carried out in hybrid format, meaning you can join on location or online as you please.
For online, please join on:
Zoom
https://aaudk.zoom.us/j/66977080647
Meeting ID: 669 7708 0647
Passcode: 167492
Assessment committee
- Senior Researcher, Sidse Grangaard, Aalborg University (chairperson)
- Professor, Cathrine Hasse, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Associate Professor, Tom Hargreaves, University of East Anglia, England
PhD supervisors
- PhD supervisor, Professor, Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Dept. of the Built Environment, Aalborg University
- Co-supervisor Postdoc, Line Valdorff Madsen, Aalborg University
Moderator
- Research Director Hans Thor Andersen, Dept. of the Built Environment, Aalborg University. hansthor@build.aau.dk
Graduate programme
- Planning and Development