Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Berker, Thomas"
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A traveler’s guide to smart grids and the social sciences
Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Ryghaug, Marianne; Berker, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)This paper serves as an introduction to a special issue on smart grids and the social sciences. There is currently a discourse of very high ambitions and anticipation regarding how the implementation of a broad collection ... -
An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency: 100 priority research questions
Foulds, Chris; Royston, Sarah; Berker, Thomas; Nakopoulou, Efi; Bharucha, Zareen Pervez; Robison, Rosie; Abram, Simone; Ančić, Branko; Arapostathis, Stathis; Badescu, Gabriel; Bull, Richard; Cohen, Jed; Dunlop, Tessa; Dunphy, Niall; Dupont, Claire; Fischer, Corinna; Gram-Hanssen, Kirsten; Grandclément, Catherine; Heiskanen, Eva; Labanca, Nicola; Jeliazkova, Maria; Jörgens, Helge; Keller, Margit; Kern, Florian; Lombardi, Patrizia; Mourik, Ruth; Ornetzeder, Michael; Pearson, Peter J. G.; Rohracher, Harald; Sahakian, Marlyne; Sari, Ramazan; Standal, Karina; Živčič, Lidija (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing a society’s relation to energy (efficiency) even ... -
Alternative consumption: a circular economy beyond the circular business model
Ortega Alvarado, Isaac Arturo; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Berker, Thomas (Chapter, 2021)Studies for the circular economy have focused consumption from the perspective of acceptance of business models. However, consumers can engage in waste prevention, reuse and reparation in modes of consumption outside ... -
Ambitions at work: Professional practices and the energy performance of non-residential buildings in Norway
Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Verhulst, Elli; Valle Kinloch, Roberto; Junghans, Antje; Berker, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Globally, buildings are considerable energy users. Stricter regulations and instruments such as energy performance standards aim at raising energy performance ambitions and reducing energy use. They rely on the implementation ... -
Berre estetisk? - Arkitektkompetanse i møte med berekraftig arkitektur
Haugland, Bård Torvetjønn (Master thesis, 2018)Tal frå FNs klimapanels femte hovudrapport viser at bygningar i 2010 stod for 32% av verdas energiforbruk, 19% av verdas energirelaterte klimagassutslepp, og om lag ein tredjedel av verdas utslepp av svart karbon, og at ... -
Building Power. Innovations in the intersection between the building and the power sectors and the transition to sustainability
Kvellheim, Ann Kristin (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:95, Doctoral thesis, 2018) -
Citizen participation in Steinkjer: Stories about the "old NRK building at Lø"
Woods, Ruth; Berker, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper follows the process of developing a pilot project at Lø in Steinkjer, where a zero emission neighbourhood was planned and which included the upgrading of the old offices of the Norwegian Broadcasting Company ... -
A co-creative method for mapping and improving energy use and management in non-residential buildings
Verhulst, Elli; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Junghans, Antje; Berker, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The built environment has a significant role to play to support a transition towards sustainability. A critical point is the energy use and management of non-residential buildings, where the operational phase has been ... -
Constructing Online Disinformation and Misinformation in Norway: The discourse of causes, imaginaries of futures and interpretations of solutions
Kroglund, Preben Svarva (Master thesis, 2021)Problemet med desinformasjon og feilinformasjon på nett har fått oppmerksomhet i norske medier og samfunnsdebatten som følge av hendelser i utlandet. In denne oppgaven analyserer jeg norske aktørers konstruksjon av ... -
Contesting Consumerism with a Circular Economy?
Ortega Alvarado, Isaac Arturo; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad; Berker, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The circular economy (CE) concept has recently entered the public discourse. A CE should contest the reproduction of a so-called linear economy. However, it is largely promoted as a normative top-down fix for business ... -
Dealing with uncertainty in sustainable innovation: mainstreaming and substitution
Berker, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)In this paper, innovation is studied as a set of activities that seeks to deal with uncertainty. It is argued that the very idea of innovation contains the assumption that the future is, in principle, open to change. ... -
«Det var litt sånn løvetannsuppe med jord» - En studie av møtet mellom matlagingspraksiser og sirkulærøkonomiske hverdagseksperimenter
Karijord, Markus Halvorsen. (Master thesis, 2020)Sirkulærøkonomi er en stadig mer utbredt strategi for bærekraft, som også har en fremvekst i norske kontekster. I denne oppgaven har jeg prøvd å vise hvordan denne påvirkningen kan utspille seg i hverdagsliv, ved å utføre ... -
Digitalisering, Kyborger og Lurendreiere En kvalitativ studie om re-domestiseringen av kunnskapsarbeideres arbeidsliv etter korona
Skjolden, Silje Molvik (Master thesis, 2022)Denne oppgaven har som hensikt å undersøke på hvilken måte bruken av hjemmekontor og digitale møter implementeres, utvikles og endres, når premissene for bruk skifter fra påtvunget til valgfritt bruk, og hvordan ... -
Domesticating Spaces: Sociotechnical Studies and the Built Environment
Berker, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The main aim of this article is to rephrase good and bad performance of built environments as good or bad interplay of spaces, building technologies, and users. To support this perspective, two conceptual tools broadly ... -
Domestication, acceptance and zero emission ambitions: Insights from a mixed method, experimental research design in a Norwegian Living Lab
Korsnes, Marius; Berker, Thomas; Woods, Ruth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The Trondheim Living Lab is a detached single-family zero emission building (ZEB) that is planned to reach a zero-emission balance over the course of its estimated 60-year lifetime. This is achieved by a broad variety of ... -
Efficient Robots vs. Social Beings: A sociotechnical study on Korean café-culture and novel technology in service.
Moe Krogstad, Halvard (Master thesis, 2022)Sammendrag: «hvordan roboter brukes i sør-Koreanske kaféer og hvorfor?». I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg dette spørsmålet i en kvalitativ studie på Koreansk kafé kultur, ved å se på hvordan forskjellige komponenter er ... -
Eksplisere, innrullere, iterere, representere – innovatørene kommer: En studie av translasjoner og kunnskapsoverføringer i en digital utviklingsprosess
Wardemann, Rasmus Kvaal (Master thesis, 2020)Målet med denne masteroppgaven er å utforske utfordringer med digital transformasjon og strategier brukt for å overkomme disse. Til tross for at kunnskap om digitale transformasjoner er høyt etterspurt, er det ennå gjort ... -
Emerging circular economies: Discourse coalitions in a Norwegian case
Ortega Alvarado, Isaac Arturo; Sutcliffe, Thomas Edward; Berker, Thomas; Pettersen, Ida Nilstad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The transition to a circular economy (CE) remains an anticipated future with alternative pathways for its fulfillment. Most research on CE is normative about technological approaches and interpretations for production and ... -
En blågrønn fremtid? En kvalitativ analyse av hvordan sirkulærøkonomi oppfattes innen havbruksnæringen i norske distrikter.
Arntsen, Kim-André Myhre (Master thesis, 2021)Oppgaven er en kvalitativ undersøkelse som studerer sirkulærøkonomi innad i havbruksnæringen og svarer på hvordan sirkulærøkonomi blir oppfattet innen havbruksnæringen i norske distrikter. Oppgaven tar i bruk STS-teoriene ... -
Energy and buildings research: challenges from the new production of knowledge
Berker, Thomas; Bharathi, Krishna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)The current state and future challenges of energy and buildings research are explored from the perspective of the social study of science. Major trends in knowledge production are considered for practices within current ...