All Doors Lead to the Kitchen – Sustainability and Wellbeing Challenges in a Shared Centrepiece of Living

Abstract

The kitchen figures a central place in the home where a significant share of a household's resource consumption takes place. Sharing the kitchen between multiple households has potential to bring positive sustainability effects due to more efficient use of both material resources and energy. The concept of shared kitchens has, however, thus far had a limited diffusion. This paper explores the potential of shared kitchens as a future sustainable living environment by studying user experiences from a Living Lab setting. It builds the base for an overarching larger European collaboration on how future shared kitchens should be designed in order to support everyday practices while optimising the conditions for achieving positive impact on both sustainability and wellbeing. Findings are presented from five focus areas concerning different use contexts: (1) accessing, (2) cooking, (3) living and socialising, (4) storing, and (5) cleaning.

Gamification of Sustainable Consumption: a systematic literature review

“…The rapid growth of technological solutions such as sensors, meters, apps [20,21], social [22], and mixed approaches, like living labs [24,25], led to an increase of research in the area of changing individual behaviors towards more efficient consumption of resources like water and energy [18,24,33,72,127,128] which are part of the "living" area of life [10] that also includes gamification to improve education and employee programs to enable sustainable development [19,20]. Clothing is addressed by solutions that range from endorsing circular business models to the development of new textiles; and personal care is part of the solutions to lead healthier lifestyles [21,22], which is also among the most addressed topics for both disciplines.…”