Gender, energy and smart housing Horizon 2020 – a flagship for gendered innovation in research? Professor kirsten gram-hanssen

What is smart grid, smart housing and smart cities? Balancing intermittent renewable energy production and demand Using digitalisation of resource flow and internet of things to control demand? Using different types of feedback on consumption to inform households? SBi – 10/11/2018

Differences between a home and a house? A house is a technical part of the urban infrastructure SBi – 10/11/2018

Differences between a home and a house? A house is a technical part of the urban infrastructure A home is where we live our everyday life, maintain social relations and produce identity SBi – 10/11/2018

Why is gender important? Activities, social relations and identity in homes are highly gendered If we fail to acknowledge this the policies and technologies we develop will not work we might unconsciously contribute to produce gender inequality SBi – 10/11/2018

What do we already know? “Resource-man” and everyday practices Gender and energy retrofitting Households level of energy consumption not gendered? SBi – 10/11/2018

What is missing? More projects with a specific focus on gender That gender is included in all the research on smart grids, homes and cities Combined with other socio-demographic research SBi – 10/11/2018

Who should do it? Gender and “smart” as multidisciplinary approaches Knowledge on gender and everyday life exist – but is often not utilised within the technical studies Socio-technical energy researchers, are used to work multi- and inter-disciplinary SBi – 10/11/2018

Added value and gendered innovations? Sustainable energy solutions need to include understandings of the use Innovations that are close to the users and acknowledge the different types of users are more likely to work Not a pink cover to the energy monitor! SBi – 10/11/2018

Thank you kgh@sbi.aau.dk SBi – 10/11/2018