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和可持续发展科学结合在一起来获得，并最终用于为可持续实践提供信息。拟议的研讨会将挑战这些领域的关键思想家，以培养互利和适当的原则，协议和实践，以满足全球对维持有复原力的景观的需求。本次研讨会是对2010年举办的为期一周的研讨会的直接回应，该研讨会题为“土著生态知识和地理信息系统：探索本体兼容的技术和工艺。“讲习班是一个国际跨学科小组，由土著学者、文化从业者、学生和非土著学者组成，他们与土著社区合作或为土著社区工作，讨论空间数据基础设施的发展，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，已故的州立大学俄勒冈州的迪安娜金斯顿博士，在研讨会结束时总结说：“我们学到了两件事：1。每个原住民社区以及每个学科都处于不同的理解发展阶段，谁，什么，何时，何地以及为什么SDI代表，这意味着我们需要共同确定这种项目的起点和路径。2.集体协议的要点之一是必须通过可持续原则、协议和做法与我们的环境联系起来（Hi'iaka工作组，2011年）。“WIS 2DOM研讨会将借鉴第一次研讨会的经验教训，促进得出这样一个结论，即通过生计或可持续农业与其领土保持密切联系的土著人民拥有深刻的空间知识，将人类充分融入自然世界，这种知识与发展中的跨学科可持续性科学没有根本区别。参与者认为，尽管对维持具有复原力的景观有着类似的愿景，但土著科学和可持续性科学尚未就如何实现这一共同目标进行对话。本次研讨会的研究团队和组织者认识到本体论多元主义在推进科学研究方面的价值，并通过本次拟议的研讨会，将使土著和可持续发展科学家进行对话，以实现实现共同目标的方法多样化。PI认识到跨越本体论界限的对话带来了重大挑战，但认为土著科学和可持续发展科学之间的关系不是二分法的，而是非常互补的。该项目建议为以前被概念化为非常不同的知识体系之间的思想和概念交流创造一个受欢迎的空间。

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.