Matt Watson contributed to a panel at a research conference in Sheffield on 13th September, drawing together diverse perspectives on the chaotic and contested notion of urban integration. The panel was organised by Simon Marvin, Director of the Urban Institute, and pulled together researchers from across the Faculty of Social Sciences at Sheffield. Matt’s contributionContinue reading “Urban integration and the nexus”
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The domestic nexus team contributes to ‘Nexus Thinking’ at the RGS Annual Conference
‘Nexus Thinking’ was the theme for this year’s Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, signalling the salience of the nexus in research as well as policy debated. Chaired by Peter Jackson, a member of this project’s advisory board, this major conference drew together hundreds of Geographers. The project was represented by Ali Browne, who presented a paperContinue reading “The domestic nexus team contributes to ‘Nexus Thinking’ at the RGS Annual Conference”
The urban nexus: infrastructures, politics and spatialities
A roundtable conference in the French town of Autun, organised by Olivier Coutard and Jochen Monstadt, was a great opportunity to push new thinking on urban infrastructures in relation to the nexus in cities. Matt Watson’s paper, co-authored with Elizabeth Shove, developed from work in the DEMAND centre to engage with the urban nexus agenda.Continue reading “The urban nexus: infrastructures, politics and spatialities”
New chapter for the Nexus at Home team
Today the Nexus at Home team set off on a new stage of their research agenda. Through the workshops series of the posts below, we enabled the gathering of existing knowledge on how practice theory and related approaches have shed new light on householder’s consumption of resources, and worked through the saliency of the ‘nexus’ framingContinue reading “New chapter for the Nexus at Home team”
About the project
Reshaping the Domestic Nexus is a multi-stage, ESRC funded research project bringing together academics from leading research groups at the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester with policy partners in BEIS, DEFRA, FSA, Waterwise, Actant Consulting Artesia Consulting, Northumbrian Water Group (NWG), WWF-UK and WRAP. The researchers are from research groups which have been at the forefront ofContinue reading “About the project”
Final report published
The final report of the 2015 domestic nexus workshop series has been published on the Nexus Network site. Read it here.
Report of workshop 3, nexus, policy and practice
What can policy (broadly understood) do differently to get people to do things differently at home, such that demand for resources of food, water and energy decline? That was the fundamental problematic underlying a day of creative engagement and informed critique between people from government, regulation, civil society, consultancy and academia in London in December.Continue reading “Report of workshop 3, nexus, policy and practice”
Domestic nexus, policy and practice
Excellent final workshop on the domestic nexus series today. A mix of imagination, creativity and critique, facilitated by Will Medd, got a great range of people developing and exchanging ideas on how to reshape resource demand at home. Fuller report here soon.
Workshop 2 Reshaping the domestic nexus, Manchester
The focus of the second workshop in the Domestic Nexus series was on researching and understanding changes in domestic practices which can reduce demand for resources was . It took place on 23rd November, at Manchester Friends Meeting House. 35 participants, including from Aalborg, Tartu and Roskilde as well as from around the UK, chewed overContinue reading “Workshop 2 Reshaping the domestic nexus, Manchester”
Slides from Kate Burningham
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Change Points 