As part of the research project two parallel PhD projects are being conducted. These explore how food, mobility and housing practices relate and interlink in the everyday life of young Danish adults, and how institutional material arrangements can support these practices to become more climate friendly.

To explore this, two rounds of interviews have been conducted with 20 households (a total of 30 young adults aged 25-35) before and after the households had relocated to a new home. During the first round of interviews the households were all living in urban locations and during the second round some had moved to a more suburbia/rural location while others stayed in urban locations. Both rounds of interviews were structured around getting a better understanding of the households’ daily routines and activities in relation to their current home, their food and mobility practices. The interviews were supported with mobilities mapping to see their movement in their daily life, a walk around in their homes including a viewing of their food storing places, as well as a photo diary done by the young adults to see what they perceived and encountered in their everyday life to be more or less sustainable.  

The aims of the interviews and different methods applied was to understand how food, mobility, and housing practices relate in the everyday life. Moreover, the aim was to identify the barriers for climate-friendly practices. The two PhDs utilize this to understand why sustainable transitions is difficult to obtain.

Contact: PhD fellow Caroline Samson and PhD fellow Amanda Krog Juvik