Mikkel Bille
Professor
SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History
Karen Blixens Plads 8
2300 København S
Primary fields of research
Primary Research Area
My research focuses on people's practices with material culture, particularly the way cultural ideals shape the transition from one type of technology to another. I have a particular interest in architecture, home culture, light and atmosphere.
My PhD from University College London, UCL, focused on the Bedouin in Jordan, while further studies have been a comparative study of uses of light in Jordan and Denmark
Current research
My current research concerns the experience and design of lighting in urban spaces, as director of the Velux project Living with Nordic Lighting
I am also co-directing Urban Tech Lab where we use eye-tracking, Galvanic Skin Response and other technologies to investigate urban spaces in combination with qualitative methods.
Previous research concentrated on the transition from incandescent light to energy saving light bulbs in Denmark and Jordan. Particularly focusing on its reception and use in orchestrating spaces of hospitality and cosyness. The research addresses concepts such as atmosphere, materiality, technology and ethics.
Previously I have also focused on cultural heritage among the Bedouin in Jordan
Current research
My current research concerns the transition from incandescent light to energy saving light bulbs in Denmark and Jordan. Particularly focusing on its reception and use in orchestrating spaces of hospitality and cosyness. The research addresses concepts such as atmosphere, materiality, technology and ethics.
Teaching
- Materiality - Things and technologies in cross cultural perspective
- Cultural heritage - the past in the present
- Antropological methods
- Internship
- Culture and rights
- Supervision in theme such as material culture studies, heritage, architecture and urban studies
Selected publications
Homely Atmosphere and lighting Technologies in Denmark: Living with Light
Bille, Mikkel, 2019, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 192 p. (Home cultures; No. 11).Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
- Published
Materialitet - en indføring i kultur, identitet og teknologi.
Bille, Mikkel & Sørensen, Tim Flohr, 2019, 2. ed. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur. 251 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Education
Being Bedouin around Petra: Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century
Bille, Mikkel, 2019, London: Berghahn Books. 210 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
Verden ifølge Humaniora: 40 banebrydende begreber der former vores virkelighed
Bille, Mikkel (ed.), Engberg-Pedersen, A. (ed.) & Gram-Skjoldager, K. (ed.), 2019, Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 352 p.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
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Staging atmospheres: Materiality, culture, and the texture of the in-between
Bille, Mikkel, Bjerregaard, P. & Sørensen, Tim Flohr, May 2015, In: Emotion, Space and Society. 15, p. 31–38Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
An Anthropology of Luminosity: the Agency of Light
Bille, Mikkel & Sørensen, Tim Flohr, 2007, In: Journal of Material Culture. 12, 3, p. 263-284 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
- Published
An Anthropology of Absence: Materializations of Transcendence and Loss
Bille, Mikkel (ed.), Hastrup, Frida (ed.) & Sørensen, Tim Flohr (ed.), 2010, New York: Springer Science+Business Media. 221 p.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
- Published
Elements of Architecture: Assembling archaeology, atmosphere and the performance of building spaces
Sørensen, Tim Flohr (ed.) & Bille, Mikkel (ed.), 2016, London: Routledge. 444 p. (Archaeological Orientations, Vol. 3).Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
- Published
Politics of Worship in Contemporary Middle East: Sainthood in fragile states
Bandak, Andreas (ed.) & Bille, Mikkel (ed.), 2013, Leiden: Brill. 215 p. (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia, Vol. 111).Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
Selected prizes
Dansk Magisterforenings forskningspris for Humanistisk Forskning
Bille, Mikkel (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
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Data witnessing: making sense of urban air in Copenhagen, Denmark
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review