SMARTUP – Smart(ening up the modern) home: Redesigning power dynamics through domestic space digitalization
The project brings together an interdisciplinary consortium from across Europe that includes experts from social sciences, design studies and (post)humanities. This variety will help the SMARTUP team to produce a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on what happens to home in(to) which digital technologies proliferate. In collaboration with practitioners of smart home design andproduction, and civic and cultural institutions, the project explores the impact of digital transformation on the home and its wider societal and cultural implications. We aim to provide a critical view on the societal and conceptual challenges posed by the smartening up of the home and to offer practical and theoretical ways to solve these challenges. Aalto University’s work in SMARTUP focuses on the role of smart home technologies in collaborative housing with shared spaces.
Duration
1.10.2022–30.9.2025
Keywords
Smart home technologies, collaborative housing, shared spaces, design studies, posthumanism
Funder
Research Council of Finland through CHANSE, Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe
People involved in the project
Department of Architecture, Antti Pirinen (co-investigator) and Raisa Mäkinen (research assistant)
Department of Design, Turkka Keinonen (principal investigator) and Nils Ehrenberg (postdoctoral researcher)
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