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

该项目将推进对维护和维修实践的核心理解，并将其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，但迄今为止，维护和维修在人机研究中一直系统性地代表不足。 通过改善设计-修复关系，该项目不仅寻求研究可持续性，而且还加强它。在教学上，它为工程和社会科学教育开发了新的以修复为中心的教学和学习策略。部署民族志，机构和参与式方法的混合，研究团队将探索和加强三个关键地点的设计-修复关系：（1）北美和欧洲迅速增长的业余维修运动;（2）全球南方生计维修社区内维修知识和创新的全球流通（通过在孟加拉国和撒哈拉以南非洲的实地研究进行代表）;以及（3）大规模信息技术制造商的日益增长的可持续性或绿色计算程序和操作。 这项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站点和实践，这些站点和实践对新兴的现实世界计算实践和挑战至关重要。该项目收集和扩展了越来越多的关于维护和维修的研究，为计算工件和基础设施的设计，创新和可持续性提出了新的方法。 该研究做出了三个主要贡献：（1）它描绘了嵌入修复的实践，价值和参与的新形式，以及它们与工业工程，黑客和其他以设计为中心或干预主义形式的参与的更好分析实践的关系。 (2)它将为现实世界的可持续性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发展（或者被丢弃和取代）的实践和机构。 (3)它扩大了计算机和信息科学的地理和分析范围，通过检查传统上对人机研究边缘的站点的维修，维护和可持续性的实践，构成了真实的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.