See Phillip Vannini's most recent contributions to Society & Space: Performing Elusive Mobilities: Ritualization, Play, and the Drama of Scheduled Departures and Domestic Lighting and the off-Grid Quest for Visual Comfort

Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart’s paper “Domestic lighting and the off-grid quest for visual comfort” appears in the current issue of Society and Space. Based on two years of fieldwork focused on off-grid living, the paper examines the interesting and understudied issues of domestic lighting and visual comfort. Those of us living on the grid may not think too often about these things but for off-grid homeowners visual comfort can be the source of many different and at times complex everyday challenges requiring profound involvement in electricity generation.

The authors have provided the short video below as a supplement to their paper. Taken at the home of Murray and Naan–two of the research participants introduced in the article—the video paints an audio-visual portrait of their domestic routines and motives for living off-grid. The ethnographic research conducted by Vannini and Taggart in every province and territory of Canada will soon be shared widely with non-academic audiences through a feature-length documentary film that will give a close and in-depth look at off-grid families and homes. [vc_video title="Off the Grid in Ontario" link="https://vimeo.com/46380901"]