Moving, Making and Atmosphere: Routines of Home as Sites for Mundane Improvisation. (14th March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pink, Sarah; Leder Mackley, Kerstin
• Is Part Of: Mobilities. Volume 11:Number 2(2016)
• Page Start: 171
• Page End: 187
• Publication Date: 2016-03-14
• Subjects: Movement -- Atmosphere -- Home -- Improvisation -- Light -- Ethnography; Transportation -- Periodicals; 300.5
• DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.957066
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1745-0101

Abstract

Abstract: In this article, we examine how everyday atmospheres of home are made, maintained and improvised through habitual routines of movement, and the implications of this for co-design for energy demand reduction. Drawing on our ethnography of how people experienced and constituted a sensory aesthetic of home, we analyse the example of lighting use in night-time routines. We propose seeing these routines as sites of the possible, where everyday making might be engaged for co-design. Thus suggesting refocusing ethnographic design research beyond what people do in their homes, towards how they move through and make the atmospheres of their homes.