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

智能(点亮现代)家庭：通过家庭空间数字化(SmartUp)重新设计权力动态(SmartUp)项目探索数字化如何影响家庭空间。它考察了当家庭变得智能时会发生什么，探索了家庭和在家中的“智能”意味着什么，并解决了家庭智能化的后果。长期以来，家被定义为室内和室外、公共和私人、工作和照顾、男性和女性、人类和非人类等二分法。家庭的数字化转型重塑了这些二分法及其必然的权力动态，特别是在新冠肺炎疫情的余波中，智能化加剧了这一点之后。SmartUp调查了数字化如何改变了家庭，以及与1)对(智能)家庭的理解有关的后果，2)作为住宅的(智能)家庭已经成为想象、规划和设计的方式，以及3)其日常形式作为实践和体验。这三个焦点将在一个跨欧洲的跨学科联盟内进行研究，该联盟汇集了社会科学、设计研究和(后)人文学科的见解。SmartUp将产生一种独特的、跨学科的方法来应对数字技术在当代家庭中的激增所带来的变革，这有望广泛地补充建立在理论基础上的理论，并从学术上重新定义“家”的概念。SmartUp将与(智能家居设计和生产)从业者以及公民和文化机构合作，确定数字转型对家庭及其更广泛的社会和文化影响的多重影响，从而缩小对不同学科的家居智能化过程的后果的认识差距。总体而言，该项目将确定加强家居美化带来的社会和观念挑战，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.