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Smart(ening up the Modern) Home: Redesigning Power Dynamics through Domestic Space Digitalisation

Home has long been positioned by means of particular dichotomies such as outside and inside, public and private, work and care, masculine and feminine, human and non-human. The digital transformation of home challenges these dichotomies a…

Topics:

Housing, Digitalization, Gender, Technology and society

Contracting authority:

Czech Academy of Sciences

Department:

National Contact Centre for Gender & Science

Project Duration:

2023 - 2025

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Do-It-Yourself culture and its importance for Czech national and cultural identity: Current situtation in social, cultural, historical and political perspective, typology and potential for regional development

At present, Do-It-Yourself culture (DIY) is generally understood as part of the Czech national identity and a Czech national feature, which reflects the nation´s specific historical experience and national memory. Although DIY as a Czech n…

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Topics:

Housing, Identity, City and Village

Contracting authority:

Ministry Project

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Project Duration:

2018 - 2020

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Between Home and Nature: Urban Political Ecology of Allotment Gardening in Post-socialist City and Its Urban Impacts

The project focuses on Prague allotments as an empirical example of the changing approach to urban nature and urban planning after the fall of socialism. Allotments represent spaces of affection and care. As urban nature, they are spaces of…

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Topics:

Housing, City and Village, Lifestyle

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Socioeconomics of Housing

Project Duration:

2016 - 2018

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Time and Space of Homeless Persons in a Post-socialist City: A Comparison of Prague and Pilsen

The project focuses on the time and space of homeless persons in relation to conditions of a post-socialistic city. Its goal is to describe characteristics, life and time-space paths and everyday life of homeless people in the context of tw…

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Topics:

Housing, City and Village, Regions, Social Inequalities

Contracting authority:

Grant Agency of the Czech Republic

Department:

Local and regional studies

Project Duration:

2015 - 2017

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