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The interactive floor plan activity was a generative task, designed to explore how individuals made use of the physical space of their apartment and to monitor the residents routines and dynamics. It was part of an in-depth engagement with the students during a 'Getting to Know You' visit in the early stages of the project.

The home video tour followed the 'Getting to know you', again taking place at the relatively early stages of our project. To explore the interrelations between people and their environments in more detail, we used the notion of the 'sensory home' (Pink, 2004) as a key methodological entry point. Rather than asking participants how they consume energy in the home, we invited them to guide us through their home and tell us what they do, on an everyday basis, to make it ‘feel right’. That also included the way they decorated, cleaned, or generally appropriated different areas of the home.