The PEOPLE project and the Slovenian case study findings were presented at the 15th EASA conference (European Association of Social Anthropologists). The paper Making Sense of Sensors: Combining Ethnography with Data Mining to Understand and Improve Smart Buildings was co-authored by PEOPLE team member, Dan Podjed (ZRC SAZU) and PEOPLE Learning Cy...
In the Dutch PEOPLE case study, a team of three students (anthropology and organisational studies) focused on a bottom-up, neighbourhood-oriented approach in the transition to natural gas-free living. They were mentored jointly by PEOPLE partner organisations, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and company Alliander. Alliander, a Dutch monopolist...
In the Czech PEOPLE case study, researchers at Charles University in Prague and their industry partner VÚPS carried out a study on the efficiency of conservation interventions in administrative buildings. Theirs was one of the four PEOPLE case studies, conducted within the PEOPLE project’s 1st Learning Cycle. In our PEOPLE Learning Cycles we ...
We are presenting four case studies, implemented in the 1st PEOPLE Learning Cycle. In each of the four partner countries, Slovenia, UK, the Netherlands, and Czech Republic, students of social sciences and humanities worked with academic and industry mentors on a real-life, industry-identified research project in the field of energy efficiency and s...