NSF Convergence Accelerator: Socioresilient Infrastructure: Precision Materials, Assemblages, and Systems

该项目将开发并召开一个跨部门、跨学科的研讨会，重点是“社会弹性基础设施：精密材料、组件和系统”。基础设施是支持一个健康、包容、可持续和繁荣的国家和社会的基础。迫切需要现代化、创新、维护、修理和更换基础设施，此外，还需要发展基础设施，以支持人类社区应对和适应社会、政治、环境或经济变化等压力和冲击的能力。目前，新的风险和脆弱性急剧扩大，有机会将基础设施视为一个基于公平的研究和设计过程，将基础设施从采掘（资源和劳动力）模式转变为再生（可持续和公平）模式。本次研讨会将涉及跨部门参与，并将汇集来自学术界，工业界（即材料，基础设施和建筑行业的成熟和初创公司，以材料和基础设施为重点的风险投资公司），非营利社区组织，慈善机构和政府实体（例如市政当局，智慧城市倡议等）的领导人。跨不同学科的思想、新的计算和制造技术、研究方法的融合不仅会带来创新和商业化，还会推动公平、包容、可持续的创新和社会弹性基础设施的商业化发展。本次研讨会旨在通过整合从材料（材料科学与工程、化学和机械工程）到组合（土木、结构和环境工程、建筑、艺术和设计）到系统（工程系统、计算机科学和工程）等各个长度尺度的令人兴奋的进展，推进一个技术框架，以加速在这一具有国家重要性的领域中使用启发的融合研究。城市研究和规划（包括城市设计和参与）。广泛的技术主题领域将包括社会弹性材料设计、结构工程和智能基础设施系统的新兴方法。它还将在物质文化、社会正义、边缘社区设计、环境和社会生命周期评估、社会技术和社会学分析（历史、社会科学，包括科学、技术和社会研究）方面纳入跨领域的人文和社会研究。本次研讨会将推进以社会弹性基础设施为重点的变革性、融合性、包容性和跨学科的研究和教育。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

This project will develop and convene a cross-sector and cross-disciplinary workshop focused on “Socioresilient Infrastructure: Precision Materials, Assemblages, and Systems.” Infrastructure is foundational to supporting a healthy, inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous nation and society. There is an urgent need for modernization, innovation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of infrastructure, and, in addition, the development of infrastructure which supports the ability of human communities to cope with and adapt to stresses and shocks such as social, political, environmental, or economic change. Currently, there is an acute amplification of new risks and vulnerabilities, and an opportunity to consider infrastructure as a research and design process grounded in equity to shift infrastructure from an extractive (resources and labor) to regenerative (sustainable and equitable) modality. This workshop will involve cross-sector engagement and will bring together leaders from academia, industry (i.e. established and startup companies in the materials, infrastructure, and construction industry, materials and infrastructure-focused venture capital firms), non-profit community-based organizations, philanthropy, and government entities (e.g. municipalities, smart cities initiatives, etc.). The merging of ideas, new computational and manufacturing technologies, research methods, across disparate disciplines will not only lead to innovation and commercialization, but advances in the development of equitable, inclusive, and sustainable innovation and commercialization of socioresilient infrastructure. This workshop aims to advance a technical framework for the acceleration of use-inspired convergence research in this area of national importance by integrating exciting advances across length scales from materials (materials science and engineering, chemistry, and mechanical engineering) to assemblages (civil, structural, and environmental engineering, architecture, art and design) to systems (engineering systems, computer science and engineering, urban studies and planning including civic design and engagement). Broad technical topic areas will include emerging approaches to socioresilient materials design, structural engineering, and intelligent infrastructure systems. It will also incorporate cross-cutting humanistic and socially-focused research in material culture, social justice, community-based design at the margins, environmental and social life cycle assessment, sociotechnical and sociological analysis (history, social sciences, including science, technology, and society studies). This workshop will advance transformative convergent, inclusive, and cross-disciplinary research and education focused on socioresilient infrastructure.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.