All Doors Lead to the Kitchen – Sustainability and Wellbeing Challenges in a Shared Centrepiece of Living
Paper in proceeding, 2019

The kitchen figures a central place in the home where a significant share of a household’s resource consumption takes place. Sharing the kitchen between multiple households has potential to bring positive sustainability effects due to more efficient use of both material resources and energy. The concept of shared kitchens has, however, thus far had a limited diffusion. This paper explores the potential of shared kitchens as a future sustainable living environment by studying user experiences from a Living Lab setting. It builds the base for an overarching larger European collaboration on how future shared kitchens should be designed in order to support everyday practices while optimising the conditions for achieving positive impact on both sustainability and wellbeing. Findings are presented from five focus areas concerning different use contexts: (1) accessing, (2) cooking, (3) living and socialising, (4) storing, and (5) cleaning.

sustainability

sharing

kitchen

living lab

wellbeing

Author

Sofie Andersson

Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods

Ulrike Rahe

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Design and Human Factors

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

21945357 (ISSN) 2194-5365 (eISSN)

Vol. 876 111-116
9783030020521 (ISBN)

1st International Conference on Human Systems Engineering and Design (IHSED2018): Future Trends and Applications
Reims, France,

The circular kitchen

Climate-KIC, 2018-01-01 -- 2021-12-31.

HSB Living Lab (457-HSB), 2018-01-01 -- 2021-12-31.

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Building Futures (2010-2018)

Subject Categories

Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Interaction Technologies

Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified

Infrastructure

HSB living lab

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-02053-8_18

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