Cross-Scale Questions: Home Technologies

DEUTERO: What people, organizations and network are critically evaluating and re-thinking (perhaps while building) domestic technologies?

Submitted by Hillary Abraham on November 23, 2019 - 10:31am
META: What discourses shift away from, focus in on, or fail to discuss home technologies? What discourses convey domestic technologies in popular media, what binaries sustain these discourses, and are there notable differences in different places?

Submitted by Hillary Abraham on November 23, 2019 - 10:32am
MACRO: What laws and economic drivers protect home residents, non-occupants, and / or tech creators in the context of home technology?

Submitted by Hillary Abraham on November 23, 2019 - 10:32am
MESO: Who are the users of home technologies? Who are the non-users? What organizations have stakes in the use or non-use of home tech? What kind of family structure is assumed and/or produced by dominant ideas/constructs of domestic technologies?

Submitted by Hillary Abraham on November 23, 2019 - 10:32am
BIO: What are the bodily effects of home technology adoption (or lack of adoption)?

Submitted by Hillary Abraham on November 23, 2019 - 10:33am
MICRO: How do home technologies integrate (or fail to integrate) into labor practices in the home? How do domestic technologies shift the ways domestic work is done (and by whom) and valued?

Submitted by Hillary Abraham on November 23, 2019 - 10:33am
NANO: Who are viewed as actors with home technology use? How does language shape (and how is language shaped by) the perception (and treatment) of these actors? How is gender reproduced and shifted through new domestic technologies?

Submitted by Hillary Abraham on November 23, 2019 - 10:34am
EDXO: What modes of expertise and education are assumed, needed, or rejected when using smart home technology? What modes of education and expertise are behind the design of new domestic technologies? Are there different schools of thought?

Submitted by Hillary Abraham on November 23, 2019 - 10:34am
DATA: What forms of data, infrastructure, and visualizations are created by smart home technologies? What forms of data e.g. are accessed or leveraged by these technologies? What kinds of data informed the design of domestic technologies?

Submitted by Hillary Abraham on November 23, 2019 - 10:34am
TECHNO: What technologies are themselves producers or enablers of smart home technologies?

Submitted by Hillary Abraham on November 23, 2019 - 10:34am
ECO-ATMO: What ecological and climatic conditions situate the use (or non-use) of home technologies? How do domestic technology enhance or reduce residents's capacity to respond to disruption (minor or major)? Electric outage, earthquake, flood?

Submitted by Hillary Abraham on November 23, 2019 - 10:35am
GEO: How have geological formations, contaminations, resources and scarcities shaped the design, production, use, and non-use of smart home technologies? Are domestic technologies use to monitor and assess environmental conditions?

Submitted by Hillary Abraham on November 23, 2019 - 10:35am

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Cross-Scale Questions: Home Technologies