Homely Digital Spaces

This lecture is given by Brit Ross Winthereik, Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. The lecture is part of the lecture series ‘Das Zeug’. 

This talk takes a point of departure in the notion of the home as a node in a digital network spanning from public authorities to big tech providers, health systems, local food providers, workplaces, institutions, friends etc.

The talk is an exploration of the new connection points and the boundaries of the digitally infrastructured home: What characterizes this space, how are boundaries established, maintained and dissolved?

Describing the home as digitally distributed implies thinking through notions of privacy in relation to digital spaces, which in turn leads to questions of the body existing in and of such spaces. As the home as a private space and the body in it are enacted in novel ways, new challenges and fields of engagement may occur for architects and designers.

About Britt Ross Wintereik
Brit Ross Winthereik is Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, where she directs the Center for Digital Welfare. She holds a PhD in Science & Technology Studies from Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She has worked at the University of Copenhagen, DTU and CBS before joining the IT University of Copenhagen as an Associate Professor in 2008.

She has been visiting researcher at the University of Melbourne and the University of California Davis. She is co-founder of the Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies and initiator behind ETHOS Lab at ITU, where students and researchers experiment with data visualization and analysis. She is appointed member of the Digital Advisory Board for the Academy for the Technical Sciences.