Abstract
As significant contributors to CO2, UK homes must be decarbonized. Active Homes represent a possible route to addressing both societal concerns and policy ambitions, while providing comfortable high quality living environments. However, changes to the material structure of homes have potential implications for people’s ability to live well within them. Our qualitative longitudinal (QL) research as part of the living well in low carbon homes project unpacks how changes brought about by living within an Active Home are experienced by residents, including to self-reported health and wellbeing. We explore how living in an Active Home may challenge expectations of home, including embodied experiences of comfort and intrinsic values of privacy and control. We suggest that it is important to recognize that these different but interwoven elements impact upon residents’ sense of home, and health and wellbeing, which has implications for future innovative low carbon homes.
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