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Kitchens and bathrooms: Changing technologies, practices and social organisation - implications for sustainability

27^th-28^th January 2005
University of Manchester, Manchester,
England, UK.

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Conference Programme

Thursday 27^th January 2005
10.00 - 10.30	Tea/Coffee
10.30 - 12.30	General trends and ideas Chair: Dale Southerton Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University) and Dale Southerton (Manchester University) Introduction [Presentation - 54Kb MS PowerPoint format] Mika Pantzar (National Consumer Research Institute, Finland) Technology and consumption [Presentation - 6.42Mb MS PowerPoint format] Grahame Morrison (Editor, Kitchens and Bathrooms magazine) Trends and trajectories of UK kitchens and bathrooms [Presentation - 664Kb MS PowerPoint format]
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch
13.30 - 15.30	Kitchens (I) Chair: Helen Watkins Dale Southerton (University of Manchester) Introduction [Presentation - 504Kb MS PowerPoint format] Irene Cieraad (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) Out of my kitchen! Gender and Domestic Efficiency Richard Moss (American Standard) Matching the Demands of in Adrenalin [Presentation - 1.90Mb MS PowerPoint format]
15.30 - 16.00	Tea/Coffee
16.00 - 17.30	Kitchens (II) Elizabeth Silva (Open University, UK) Design and desire in kitchens [Presentation - 15.56Mb MS PowerPoint format] General discussion of key issues raised by day 1
19.45	Conference Dinner

Friday 28^th January 2005
09.30 - 11.00	Bathrooms Chair: Will Medd Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University) Introduction [Presentation - 12.97Mb MS PowerPoint format] Maj Britt Quitzau (Department of Policy Analysis, DMU, Denmark) Environmental impacts of embedded bathroom practices [Presentation - 1.98Mb MS PowerPoint format] Kirsten Gram-Hanssen (Danish Building and Urban Research Housing and Urban Research Division) Teenagers and their consumption cleanliness [Paper - 67Kb pdf format] [Presentation - 71Kb MS PowerPoint format]
11.00 - 11.30	Tea/Coffee
11.30 - 13.00	Futures Chair: Russell Hutchings Martyn Denny (Aqualisa and President of BMA) The Bathroom, an Evolution or Revolution Dale Southerton (University of Manchester) Home extensions: consumption, space and practice [Paper - 67Kb pdf format] [Presentation - 647Kb MS PowerPoint format]
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 16.00	Everyday life and sustainability (I) Chair: Elizabeth Shove Andrew Flynn (Cardiff University) and Ken Green (The University of Manchester) Technological Transformations in Food Consumption and Production Systems Commentator: Gert Spaargaren (Wageningen University, the Netherlands) followed by general discussion [Presentation - 54Kb MS PowerPoint format]
16.00	Tea/Coffee and depart

Other papers from the Kitchens and Bathrooms project:

Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University, England) and Martin Hand (Queen's University, Canada)
The restless kitchen: possession, performance and renewal
[Paper - 59Kb pdf format]

Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University, England) and Martin Hand (Queen's University, Canada)
Orchestrating Concepts: kitchen dynamics and regime change in good housekeeping and ideal home, 1922-2002
[Paper - 388Kb pdf format]

Martin Hand (Queen's University, Canada), Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University, England) and Dale Southerton (University of Manchester, England)
Explaining showering: a discussion of the material, conventional, and temporal dimensions of practice
[Paper - 69Kb pdf format]

Dale Southerton (University of Manchester, England) and Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University, England)
Defrosting the Freezer: from novelty to convenience
[Paper - 89Kb pdf format]

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