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Everyday Futures<\/h3>\nEveryday Futures<\/h3>\nEdited by Nicola Spurling and Lenneke Kuijer<\/p>\n
Download Everyday Futures book as PDF<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A selection of these essays has been published as a Special Topic for ACM Interactions, which can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Table of Contents<\/strong> \u201cThe future is already here \u2014 it’s just not very evenly distributed.\u201d<\/em> Everyday Futures and Ethnographic Methods<\/em> Futuring Fashion from Everyday Life<\/em> Imagined Futures of the Circular Economy<\/em> Grow Your Own: space, planning, practice and everyday futures of domestic food production<\/em> Going Digital:\u00a0digital tools and the study of everyday home\u00a0life Connecting Past, Present and Future<\/em> “By Their [Data] You Will Know Them”: Historical reflections on capturing patterns in everyday life<\/em> Future Making as Collective Composition: towards an inclusive design of smart cities\u00a0 <\/em> Tim Chatterton<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Georgia Newmarch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This essay considers how contemporary inequalities will play a significant role in determining how the future will emerge. The building blocks of the future already exist today, within niches or lived minorities, and in the coming years they will spread to make the \u2018normal\u2019 of the future. However, the ability to control which elements spread, to \u2018write\u2019 the future, is unequally spread, and without great care, inequalities of today will lead to similar inequalities tomorrow.\u00a0Download full PDF<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jill Ebrey<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Isabelle Garabuau-Moussaoui<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This work explores the potential of ethnographic methods for understanding the future in everyday life. Based on a selective literature review, the paper discusses how ethnographic approaches enhance:\u00a0The understanding of future-orientated practices and imaginaries;\u00a0The analysis of possible futures of practices in everyday life;\u00a0The integration of everyday analysis within an innovation process – forecasts, scenarios, etc. (design anthropology, for instance) or the proposition of alternative methods (narratives, etc.);\u00a0The role of ethnographies in developing a shared idea of futures through collaborative work with research partners.\u00a0Download full PDF<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lizzie Harrison<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Angella Mackey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Sustainable design and wearable technology, two very different but emerging fields in fashion, share the ability to fundamentally change the way in which we consume, use and dispose of clothing. Whilst much of the new knowledge generated in these fields focuses on materials and technology developments in order to create long lasting significant \u2018change\u2019 through changing behavior or rethinking the entire fashion system, a more holistic understanding of how garments live will be essential. The everyday<\/em>, an often overlooked but fundamental part of fashion practice, could therefore be considered an action space for practice-based researchers to explore constructing positive futures. We define the everyday as personal, daily interactions with garments over long periods of time. Drawing on three diverse fashion experiments that explore daily clothing practices and rituals we consider how the everyday can be utilised to enact change and create future visions.\u00a0<\/strong>Download full PDF<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Daniel Welch (University of Manchester)<\/a>,\u00a0Margit Keller (University of Tartu)<\/a>\u00a0and Giuliana Mandich (University of Cagliari)<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The essay sketches some lines of enquiry into how \u2018everyday futures\u2019 are imagined in discourse around \u2018the Circular Economy\u2019. The Circular Economy is offered as a model for a significantly more environmentally sustainable economy, an alternative to the current \u201clinear economy\u201d of \u201cmake, use, dispose\u201d (WRAP, n.d.). The discourse has grown in prominence in recent years, with the EU recently reframing its policy commitments to sustainable production and consumption in terms of the Circular Economy (EC 2015). We examine examples from the national contexts of Estonia, Italy and the United Kingdom, and the EU level, to explore how everyday life and consumption are imagined in the future of the Circular Economy. We offer some initial sketches, drawing on practice theory (e.g. Schatzki, 2002) and conventions theory or \u2018pragmatic sociology\u2019 (e.g. Boltanki and Th\u00e9venot, 2006; Th\u00e9venot, 2001) and suggest further theoretical articulations to be pursued through the empirical area. Download full PDF<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Enrico Marcore<\/a> and Nicola Spurling <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The essay explores the relationship between space, planning and everyday practices, focussing on futures of domestic food growing spaces and practices in Italy and the UK. The first case looks at the recent inclusion of the \u2018community garden\u2019 in the eco urban housing model in L\u2019Aquila, Italy, and traces the relationships between planning, space and practices as this model is imported into a rural community. The second case explores a longer national trajectory of allotments (plots of land rented for growing vegetables) in the UK. Over time, the allotment becomes endowed with different social and cultural meanings, as its position within policy, systems of provision, urban infrastructure and everyday practices changes. \u00a0Through considering these examples from past and present, we reflect on anticipated food growing futures in different times and places, and ask how these various \u2018experiments\u2019 of policy, planning and practice, are best conceptualised. Download full PDF<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tjerk Timan<\/a> and Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n In uncovering everyday futures, the Internet is a potentially vital place to investigate the experiences and expectation of home life. The home is a key site to understand and intervene in futures-in-the-making, being a critical space of consumption and a place in which everyday practices and norms are <\/p>\n Rebecca Wright<\/a> and Colin Pooley<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This essay argues that more attention needs to be paid by planners and policy makers to past everyday life in envisioning present and future models of living. By focusing on the decisions and strategies adopted by individual families in carrying out their everyday lives we suggest that it is possible to gain a better understanding of the ways in which people react to changing circumstances and adapt their behaviours when necessary. The paper focuses on four separate areas: what are the methods and concepts that we can use to operationalize this material and make it relevant to the present? What historical sources can be used to reveal aspects of the everyday and what are the limitations of these resources? How can this material provide new insights into issues such as historical determinism and inertia within social systems? And what are the implications of this for tackling pressing current and future problems such as climate change and inequalities at both the global and local scales? Download full PDF<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Derek Gatherer (University of Lancaster)<\/a>, Lenneke Kuijer (TU Eindhoven)<\/a> and Ida Nilstad Pettersen (NTNU)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n With large quantities of digital data collected on our everyday lives, concerns arise as to how this data may affect these very lives. To derive relevant research questions concerning Everyday Futures, our essay reflects on the use of digital data in everyday decision-making. We do so by comparing historic and contemporary examples of health related data-action loops on three different scales: the body, the home and the city. We conclude that while the use of data to inform sensitive decisions is not new, digitization gives rise to a number of important research themes, including tensions between developers and users, theory and opportunity, sensors and senses, and norms and diversity, ‘expert’ and actor, and that what is (thought to be) measured versus what is not. Moreover, we illustrate how our multiscale, historic, multidisciplinary reflection forms a potential method for everyday futures research. Download full PDF<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maureen Meadows (Coventry University,\u00a0UK)<\/a> and\u00a0Matthijs Kouw (Rathenau Instituut, The Hague, Netherlands)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Everyday Futures Edited by Nicola Spurling and Lenneke Kuijer Download Everyday Futures book as PDF A selection of these essays has been published as a Special Topic for ACM Interactions, which can be found here. Table of Contents Introduction: Everyday Futures as an Area of Research Nicola Spurling (Lancaster University) and Lenneke Kuijer (TU Eindhoven) Download full text \u201cThe future is already here \u2014 it’s just not very evenly distributed.\u201d Tim Chatterton (University of the West of England) and Georgia Newmarch (Lancaster University) abstract\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0full text Everyday Futures and Ethnographic Methods Jill Ebrey (University of Manchester) and Isabelle Moussaoui … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"featured_media":0,"parent":373,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8bV1M-2g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/everydayfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/everydayfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/everydayfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/everydayfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/everydayfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/everydayfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/everydayfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions\/675"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/everydayfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/everydayfutures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIntroduction: Everyday Futures as an Area of Research<\/em>
\nNicola Spurling (Lancaster University) and Lenneke Kuijer (TU Eindhoven)
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\nTim Chatterton (University of the West of England) and Georgia Newmarch (Lancaster University)
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\nJill Ebrey (University of Manchester) and Isabelle Moussaoui (EDF R&D, Paris)
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\n<\/strong>Lizzie Harrison (University of Arts, London) and Angella Mackey (TU Eindhoven)
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\nDaniel Welch (University of Manchester), Margit Keller (University of Tartu)\u00a0and Giuliana Mandich (University of Cagliari)
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\nEnrico Marcore (University of Aberdeen) and Nicola Spurling (Lancaster University)
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\n<\/em>Tjerk Timan (Tilburg University)\u00a0and Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs (University of St Andrews)
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\nRebecca Wright (University of London) and Colin Pooley (Lancaster University)
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\nDerek Gatherer (Lancaster University), Lenneke Kuijer (TU Eindhoven)\u00a0and Ida Nilstad Pettersen (NTNU Norway)
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\nMaureen Meadows (Coventry University) and Matthijs Kouw (Rhatenau Institute, The Hague)
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<\/p>\nEveryday Futures and Ethnographic Methods<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Futuring Fashion from Everyday Life<\/h2>\n
Imagined futures of the Circular Economy <\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Grow Your Own: Space, planning, practice and everyday futures of domestic food production<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Going Digital: Digital tools and the study of everyday home life<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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\n(re)produced. Notably, online methods allow a window into the privacy of the home (i.e. written and visual media) and ease the process of data collection for cross-cultural comparisons. We explore the utility of home improvement forums for understanding expectations of (near) future homes, comparing desired futures by householders in the Netherlands and UK. Importantly, this paper offers a methodological reflection of innovative online methods for studying everyday futures. Download full PDF<\/a><\/p>\nConnecting Past, Present and Future<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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“By Their [Data] You Will Know Them” Historical reflections on capturing patterns in everyday life<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Future making as collective composition: towards an inclusive design of smart cities<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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This paper highlights the need for a visioning method which involves criteria that safeguard the incorporation of multiple visions of the future into policymaking and decision making. Such criteria enable political means to deal with techno-optimism, a prevalent attitude towards technology that accompanies data-driven forms of urbanism. Techno-optimism views technology as an autonomous process exempt from social influences that society merely has to ‘tap into’, e.g. gathering data about citizen behavior as an objective and neutral ‘good’ in and of itself. As a result, techno-optimism downplays societal impacts of technology. Moreover, disagreement about what a smart city is or should be mystify public debates and obscure the interests at play. Our criteria for future-making enable a pragmatic-methodological perspective to evaluate the inclusivity of various forms of future-making, and provide\u00a0 a way to enable inclusivity in future-making. Thus, techno-optimism can be side-stepped in favor of an inclusive methodology of future-making that fosters a multiplicity or plurality of perspectives. Download full PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"