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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2022

From smart buildings to smart users

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This communication builds on field work conducted within the Live TREE project by two socioanthropologists and philosophers at Lille Catholic University. Funded by the Region Hauts-de-France (France), the Live TREE project’s objective is to conduct the university transition toward a sustainable campus. It is part of the local implementation of the Third Industrial Revolution paradigm, and its flagship realizations are two smart buildings hosting research, teaching and administrative functions. They are meant as demonstrators of how sensors and IT coupled with renewable energies can and should pave the way for a less carbon intensive future. Now that the buildings are operational, the engineers keep wondering how to make “users” adopt the proper behaviors requested by the technological apparatus. These buildings indeed tend to dictate behaviors and habits that go against common sense, and thus call for a recomposition of their inhabitants’ intelligence. But engineers in charge of the project conceive users after the building’s specs, and talk, somewhat reluctantly, of “smart users”, without whom they risk having “just another fancy building stuffed with sensors”. What kind of intelligence is at stake here? We want to explore and discuss questions such as how users are coproduced with the conception of the building, how some categories of users are therefore favored or excluded from the building (depending on gender, age, weight, etc.), and what does it say about how intelligence is conceived in smart buildings. Smart buildings confronted with reluctant or just varied users are haunted by the risk of being useless, as if the human component, that cannot be fine-tuned like other parameters, could ruin its architecture anytime.
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hal-04587713 , version 1 (24-05-2024)

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Dorthe Gabriel, Laure Dobigny. From smart buildings to smart users. The Smartification of Everything, Université d’Ottawa, Mar 2022, Ottawa (Ontario), Canada. ⟨hal-04587713⟩
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