Research

• Urban life and culture
• Urban planning, urban/regional transformation and sustainable development
• Human/environment relations: technology, nature, society and power
• Housing, dwelling practices and urban/rural migration
• Practice theory, critical urban theory and post-phenomenological theory

My aim is to produce theoretically and empirically grounded research that contributes to the practice of constructing more sustainable urban environments.

The basis of my research is with the fundamental relations between humans and their environments. This intricate and complex relationship co-constitutively shape and gets shaped by human and non-human action; materiality, nature, and technology; and politics and power relations. In my current research I explore smart cities and smart housing environments. The notion ‘smart’ has gained tremendous interest, and impact, during the past 15 years. It concerns the increased attention to use digital technologies and large datasets to automate much of our built environments and infrastructural systems. Often for the sake of creating more sustainable cities and living environments. My research is concerned with how smart, or automation, meets cities and housing environments. What transformations take place? Do the promises hold? What are the struggles and challenges?

Research