ABSTRACT
The home and the household is a key scale to interpret problems of climate change and environmental sustainability. An expanding research literature considers the home as a site of social organisation for pro-environmental behaviour (Reid et al. 2009; Lane and Gorman-Murray 2011; Tudor et al. 2011). Matters of housing are central. There are important questions of household size, lifestyle, comfort and cultural norms that plug into the bigger picture of resource use and carbon emissions (Shove 2003; Keilman 2003), as well as socio-technical considerations of home design, materials use and interactions with Big Infrastructure systems (Kaïka 2004; Horne and Hayles 2008). Australian researchers across planning, geography, design, architecture and cultural studies have been among a global vanguard advancing inter-disciplinary understanding of such issues (e.g. Hobson 2003; Allon and Sofoulis 2006; Crabtree 2006; Lane et al. 2008; Lane and Gorman-Murray 2011; Horne and Hayles 2008; Strengers and Maller 2012; Head et al. 2013), focused on housing, the household as social and material assemblage, and on homes as loci of complex socio-cultural dynamics.
