Smart(ening up the modern) home: Redesigning power dynamics through domestic space digitalization

“智能（增强现代）家居：通过家庭空间数字化重新设计动力学（SMARTUP）”项目探讨了数字化如何影响家庭空间。它探讨了当家庭变得智能时会发生什么，探讨了家庭的“智能”意味着什么，并解决了家庭智能化的后果。长期以来，家庭一直被一分为二地定义，如外部和内部，公共和私人，工作和照顾，男性和女性，人类和非人类。家居的数字化转型重塑了这些二分法及其必然的权力动态，特别是在COVID-19大流行的影响下，智能化程度有所加强。SMARTUP调查了数字化如何改变家庭，以及与以下方面有关的后果：1）对（智能）家庭的理解，2）（智能）家庭作为住宅的方式已经成为想象，规划和设计，以及3）实践和体验的日常形式。这三个焦点将在跨学科的跨欧洲联盟内进行研究，汇集来自社会科学，设计研究和（后）人文学科的见解。SMARTUP将产生一个独特的，跨学科的方法，以数字技术在当代家庭的扩散所带来的转变，这将广泛地增加理论建设，并对“家”的学术重新概念化。通过与（智能家居设计和生产）从业者以及公民和文化机构的合作，SMARTUP将确定数字化转型对家庭及其更广泛的社会和文化影响的多重影响，从而缩小对家庭智能化过程后果的认识差距。总的来说，该项目将确定家庭智能化加剧所带来的社会和概念挑战，并提供解决这些挑战的实践和理论方法。

The project Smart(ening up the modern) home: Redesigning power dynamics through domestic space digitalization (SMARTUP) explores how digitalization impacts domestic space. It examines what happens to home when it becomes smart/er, explores what "smartness" of and at home means, and addresses the consequences of home smartening. Home has long been defined by dichotomies such as outside and inside, public and private, work and care, masculine and feminine, human and non-human. The digital transformation of home reworks these dichotomies as well as their corollary power dynamics, especially since smartening up has intensified in the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. SMARTUP investigates how home has been transformed by digitalization, and with what consequences in relation to 1) the understanding of (smart) home, 2) the ways (smart) home as a dwelling has become to be imagined, planned and designed, and 3) its everyday forms as practised and experienced. These three foci are to be researched within an interdisciplinary trans-European consortium bringing together insights from across social sciences, design studies and (post)humanities. SMARTUP will produce a unique, interdisciplinary approach to the transformations brought about by the proliferation of digital technologies in contemporary homes, which promises to extensively add to the theory building on, and scholarly reconceptualization of "home". In collaboration with practitioners (of smart home design & production), and civic and cultural institutions, SMARTUP will identify the multiple impacts of digital transformation on home and its wider societal and cultural implications, thus closing a gap in knowledge about the consequences of the process of smartening-up of home pertaining to different academic disciplines. Overall, the project will identify societal and conceptual challenges posed by intensification of smartening up of home as well as offer practical and theoretical ways to solve them.