National Workshop on Architectural Faculty in Environmental Sustainability Research (WAFES)

在美国，建筑物占总能源使用量的52%，占温室气体排放量的37%，而现代人90%以上的时间都在室内度过。由于这些重要的环境和人类生理因素，环境可持续性研究已经在许多学术领域积极进行了几十年，包括工程，计算机科学，医学和物理科学，使用建筑物作为主要的研究框架。然而，尽管建筑和建筑设计在建筑物的可持续性方面发挥着重要作用，但大多数与建筑性能相关的研究在很大程度上依赖于以系统和计算过程为中心的方法，这些方法没有整合定性的人类和设计研究参数。此外，美国的许多建筑项目，在少数民族（即，在专业学校中，女性（占教师和学生总数的40%以上）有一种“不需要研究”的文化偏见，在制定课程时很少考虑基础研究或应用研究的优点。这种扭曲的学术氛围可能会将建筑学者与“主要”研究举措隔离开来，并限制了建筑研究的进步和美国建筑学院基本研究基础设施的发展。为了应对这些挑战，将举办一个全国性的研讨会，邀请正在进行（或有兴趣）建筑/建筑相关的环境可持续性研究的建筑研究人员参加。本次研讨会将1）提供一个网络机会，帮助建筑系教师深入讨论如何促进建筑研究框架，具体的研究参数，在建筑学科; 2）确定影响教师在建筑学研究事业成功的挑战和缺点，也创造了建筑学学生在艺术/设计中的有限参与-综合STEM研究活动; 3）探索环境可持续性研究领域潜在的前沿建筑研究范式和主题。研讨会的技术讨论和计划旨在通过以下方式影响与环境可持续性相关的众多建筑研究领域：1）为建筑教师提供基于导师制的网络机会，与STEM领域相比，建筑教师代表了代表性不足的群体的多样性，特别是对于早期职业生涯的个人和博士准备的学生; 2）讨论如何建立一个研究平台，使附属学生有机会参与新兴研究; 3）建立新兴研究的关键参数，与其他学科相结合，作为创新的环境可持续性研究范式;以及4）增加建筑学院的研究机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Buildings account for 52% of total energy use and contribute to 37% of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., while modern people spend more than 90% of their time indoors. Due to these significant environmental and human physiological factors, environmental sustainability research has been actively conducted for several decades in many academic fields, including engineering, computer science, medicine, and the physical sciences, using buildings as a major research framework. However, despite the role of architecture and architectural design in a building's sustainability profile, most building performance-related research has relied heavily on system and computational process-centered approaches that do not integrate qualitative human and design research parameters. In addition, many Architectural programs in the U.S., where minorities (i.e., females) account for over 40% of the faculty and student populations, have had a cultural preconception of "no-research-needed" in professional schools and develop their curricula with little consideration of the merits of fundamental or applied research. Such a skewed intellectual atmosphere may isolate architectural scholars from "major" research initiatives, and limits the advancement of architectural research and the development of essential research infrastructure in architecture schools across the U.S. This lack of research advancement delays an architectural faculty's research career pathway and forecloses educational opportunities in architectural research among their students. To address these challenges, a national workshop will be held to engage Architectural researchers who are pursuing (or are interested in) Architecture/building-related environmental sustainability research. This workshop will 1) provide a networking opportunity that helps Architectural faculty have in-depth discussions on how to promote an architectural research framework, with specific research parameters, across the disciplines in Architecture; 2) identify the challenges and drawbacks that affect a faculty's research career success in Architecture and that also create a limited involvement of Architectural students in an art/design-integrated STEM research activity; and 3) explore potential cutting-edge Architectural research paradigms and topics in the environmental sustainability research field. The technical discussion and program of the workshop are designed to impact numerous Architectural research fields associated with environmental sustainability by 1) providing mentorship- based networking opportunities for Architecture faculty, who represent a diversity of underrepresented groups, compared to STEM domains, especially for early career individuals and PhD-ready students; 2) discussing how to develop a research platform where affiliated students have an opportunity to become involved in emerging research; 3) establishing emerging research key parameters to be integrated with other disciplines, as an innovative environmental sustainability research paradigm; and 4) enhance the research opportunity of Architectural schools.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.