CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Repair, Maintenance and Sustainability: Enhancing Sustainability by Strengthening the Design/Repair Nexus

该项目将促进对维护和维修实践的核心理解，并将这些与围绕新计算工具和基础设施的设计、创新和可持续性的长期关注联系起来。技术维护和维修是计算工具和基础设施的长期影响和可持续性的核心要素。虽然非常需要了解它们对工程开发、学习和技术变革的影响，但到目前为止，维护和维修在人机研究中一直被系统地低估。通过改进设计-维修关系，该项目不仅寻求研究可持续性，而且还寻求加强可持续性。在教学方面，它为工程和社会科学教育制定了以修复为中心的新的教学和学习战略。研究团队将运用人种学、制度和参与性方法的组合，探索和加强设计与修复之间的联系，跨越三个关键地点：(1)北美和欧洲迅速增长的业余修复运动；(2)全球南部生计修复社区内修复知识和创新的全球传播(通过在孟加拉国和撒哈拉以南非洲的实地研究)；以及(3)大型信息技术制造商日益增长的可持续性或绿色计算计划和运营。这一研究和参与计划将带来理论和实践上的好处，并将计算机和信息科学的范围扩展到以前被忽视的地点和实践，这些实践是新兴的现实世界计算实践和挑战的关键。该项目收集并扩展了越来越多关于维护和维修的研究，以提出计算人工制品和基础设施的设计、创新和可持续性的新方法。这项研究有三个核心贡献：(1)它绘制了嵌入在维修中的新的实践、价值和参与形式，以及它们与分析更好的工业工程、黑客和其他以设计为中心或干预主义参与形式的实践的关系。(2)它将为可持续发展的现实世界机制提供新的经验和理论见解：使计算设备、系统和基础设施在世界上可持续(或丢弃和取代)的做法和制度。(3)它通过检查传统上处于人机研究边缘的地点的维修、维护和可持续性实践，拓宽了计算机和信息科学的地理和分析范围，这些地点构成了现实世界计算经验的长尾。

This project will advance core understanding of maintenance and repair practices and connect these to long-standing concerns around the design, innovation, and sustainability of new computational tools and infrastructures. Technology maintenance and repair constitute central elements in the long-term impact and sustainability of computing tools and infrastructures. While there is tremendous need for understanding their effects on engineering development, learning, and technological change, maintenance and repair have been systematically underrepresented in human-computer research to date. By improving the design-repair nexus, this project seeks not only to study sustainability but also enhance it. Pedagogically, it develops new repair-centered teaching and learning strategies for education in engineering and the social sciences.Deploying a mix of ethnographic, institutional, and participatory methods, the research team will explore and enhance the design-repair nexus across three crucial sites: (1) the rapidly growing amateur repair movements in North America and Europe; (2) global circulations of repair knowledge and innovation within livelihood repair communities in the global South (represented through field studies in Bangladesh and Sub-Saharan Africa); and (3) the growing sustainability or green computing programs and operations of large-scale information technology manufacturers. This program of research and engagement will deliver both theoretical and practical benefits, and will extend the reach of computer and information science to previously neglected sites and practices key to emerging real-world computing practices and challenges. This project gathers and extends a growing body of research on maintenance and repair to propose new approaches to the design, innovation and sustainability of computational artifacts and infrastructures. The research makes three central contributions: (1) It charts novel forms of practice, value, and engagement embedded in repair, and their relationship to the better-analyzed practices of industrial engineering, hacking, and other design-centered or interventionist forms of engagement. (2) It will offer new empirical and theoretical insight into the real-world mechanics of sustainability: the practices and institutions by which computing devices, systems and infrastructures are made sustainable in the world (or alternatively, discarded and replaced). (3) It broadens the geographic and analytic reach of computer and information science by examining practices of repair, maintenance and sustainability in sites traditionally marginal to human-computer research that constitute the long tail of real world computing experience.