WIS2DOM, Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences: Diversifying our Methods

该奖项为为期3天半的研讨会提供资金，其目标是发现新的信息和/或理解，这些信息和/或理解可以通过将土著科学和可持续发展科学结合在一起而获得，并最终用于为可持续做法提供信息。拟议的研讨会将挑战这些领域的关键思想者，以培养互惠和适当的原则、协议和做法，以满足维持有弹性的景观的全球需求。这次研讨会是对2010年举行的为期一周的研讨会“土著生态知识和地理信息系统：探索本体论兼容的技术和技术”的直接回应。讲习班是一个由土著学者、文化从业者、学生和与土著社区合作或为土著社区工作的非土著学者组成的国际跨学科小组，讨论空间数据基础设施的发展问题，这些基础设施能够代表土著对环境现象建模的观点。研讨会的组织者，已故俄勒冈州立大学的Deanna Kingston博士在研讨会结束时总结道：“我们学到了两件事：1.每个土著社区以及每个学科都处于不同的发展阶段，了解SDI代表的人、内容、时间、地点和原因，这意味着我们需要集体确定这类项目的起点和路径。2.集体协议的要点之一是必须通过可持续的原则、协议和做法与我们的环境联系起来(Hi‘iaka Working Group，2011)。WIS2DOM讲习班将以第一次讲习班的经验教训为基础，促进以下结论观点：通过自给自足或可持续农业与其领土保持密切联系的土著人民拥有深厚的空间知识，使人类完全融入自然世界，这一知识与正在发展的可持续发展跨学科科学并无根本区别。私人投资机构坚持认为，尽管土著科学和可持续发展科学在维持有弹性的景观方面有着相似的愿景，但它们还没有就如何实现这一共同目标进行对话。本次研讨会的研究小组和组织者认识到本体论多元化在推进科学研究方面的价值，并通过拟议的研讨会，将土著科学家和可持续发展科学家带入对话，以多样化的方法实现共同目标。私人投资机构认识到，跨越本体论界限的对话构成重大挑战，但他们认为，土著科学和可持续发展科学之间的关系不是一分为二的，而是有很大的互补性的。该项目提议创造一个欢迎的空间，以便在以前被概念化为非常不同的知识系统之间交流思想和概念。

This award provides funding for a 3 1/2 day workshop, the goal of which is to uncover new information and/or understandings that can be gained by bringing together Indigenous and sustainability science and ultimately used to inform sustainable practices. The proposed workshop will challenge key thinkers in these areas to cultivate mutually conducive and appropriate principles, protocols, and practices that address the global need to sustain resilient landscapes. This workshop is a direct response to a previous weeklong workshop held in 2010, "Indigenous Ecological Knowledges and Geographic Information Systems: Exploring ontologically Compatible Techniques and Technologies." The workshop was an international interdisciplinary group of Indigenous scholars, cultural practitioners, students and non-Indigenous scholars working with or for Indigenous communities to discuss the development of spatial data infrastructure (SDI) capable of representing Indigenous perspectives of modeling environmental phenomena. The organizer of the workshop, the late Dr. Deanna Kingston of Oregon State University, concluded at the completion of the workshop, "We learned two things: 1. Each Indigenous community as well as each academic discipline is at a different developmental stage of understanding, the who, what, when, where, and why of SDI representation, which means we needed to collectively identify the starting point and path for this kind of project. 2. One of the points of collective agreement was the necessity of relating to our environments through sustainable principles, protocols, and practices (Hi'iaka Working Group, 2011)." The WIS2DOM workshop will build on the lessons learned from the first workshop, by facilitating the concluding perspective that indigenous peoples who maintain a strong connection with their territory through subsistence or sustainable agriculture have a deep spatial knowledge that fully integrates humans into the natural world, a knowledge that is not fundamentally different from the developing transdisciplinary science of sustainability. The PIs maintain that despite holding a similar vision of sustaining resilient landscapes, Indigenous and sustainability sciences have not entered into dialogue on how to accomplish this common goal. The research team and organizers of this workshop recognize the value of ontological pluralism with regard to advancing scientific research and through this proposed workshop, will bring Indigenous and sustainability scientists into dialogue in order to diversify methods toward meeting common goals. The PIs recognize that dialogue across ontological boundaries poses significant challenges, but believe that the relationship between Indigenous and sustainability science is not dichotomous but is instead significantly complimentary. This project proposes to create a welcoming space for the exchange of ideas and concepts between what have previously been conceptualized as very divergent knowledge systems.