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VÄITÖSTILAISUUS perjantai 8.4.2016
Aalto-yliopiston taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulu (Hämeentie 135 C), ls. 822, 8. krs
MA Karthikeya Acharya esittää tarkastettavaksi väitöskirjansa Opening the Electrome: Redefining Home for Energy Studies through Design Practice.
Vastaväittäjänä toimii PhD John Vines, Newcastle University.
Kustoksena on professori Jack Whalen Taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulun muotoilun laitokselta.
Keskustelu käydään englanniksi.

Lisätietoja: http://arts.aalto.fi/fi/current/events/2016-03-15-004/
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Friday 8 April 2016 at noon
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Hämeentie 135 C, lecture room 822

MA Karthikeya Acharya will defend his dissertation Opening the Electrome: Redefining Home for Energy Studies through Design Practice on Friday 8 April 2016 at noon.
PhD John Vines, Newcastle University, will act as the Opponent.
Professor Jack Whalen, Dept. of Design, will act as the Custos.
The discussion will be in English.

This design thesis presents a field-based practice as inquiry, for prototyping, and as a form of discrete activism. It builds on four prior approaches from design, art and architecture: Empathic Design, Interrogative Design, Relational Aesthetics and Critical Regionalism. Positioning the thesis as an issue-based design study, it is presented as a piece of practice-based energy research. It approaches domestic energy use measures as information and conceptualizes such measures as holding both an ecological and an informational concern. This coupling within domestic energy use measures becomes the subject for design practice. Based on this coupling, referring to on-going changes within domestic energy systems and viewing the home from three different theoretical positions, the thesis presents a hypothetical construct of the home, referring to it as the Electrome.

Against this background, the study introduces its first field-based research within the Indian domestic context. Using interviews and design exercises with Indian apartment residents, the study demonstrates that as dwellers give meanings to their domestic appliances, artefacts and electro-home, these artefacts contain and hold a number of social relations. In this context, the flow of energy into domestic appliances, artefacts and the home allows energy use to be seen as information. When such information is combined with the social relations inferred from domestic artefacts, a conception of dwelling with data emerges. This is presented as a characteristic of the Electrome.

Proceeding with two further field studies, the design practice prototypes a series of domestic services based on energy information, resulting in making people's private energy use information public. By "opening" the private energy use measures of appliances, artefacts and the home by design, the practice firstly infers and presents the social relations and orders contained within the homes and their inherent intertwining with everyday energy practices. Secondly, the opening of energy use measures as design practice presents how otherwise latent larger social concerns that go beyond the walls of the home emerge. Then, calling for a difference at the scale of the electro as a universal technology, in order to negotiate control of the material agency within everyday dwelling, the design practice demonstrates a design tactic termed the de-electrofication of data. With these results from the design practice as inquiry, for prototyping, and as activism, the thesis demonstrates that practising design can generate multiple agendas as coherent action.

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INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS

Dear Friends,

We have immense pleasure in informing you that Independence Day of India will be celebrated at 0900 hrs. on the 15th August 2014 at the Embassy of India located at 32 Kulosaarentie, Helsinki 00570. The function will include flag hoisting by H.E. Mr. A. Manickam, Ambassador of India, followed by reading out of the Hon’ble President of India’s Address to the Nation on the eve of the Independence Day. Light refreshments will also be served during the function.

All Indian nationals and friends of India in Finland and Estonia are cordially invited to attend the function.

It would also be appreciated if this information could please be passed on to Indian nationals and friends of India known to you in Finland and Estonia.

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