SAI-P: Designing Just Futures for Public Engagement in Petrochemical Pipeline Infrastructure

加强美国基础设施（SAI）是NSF的一项计划，旨在促进以人为本的基础和潜在的变革性研究，以加强美国的基础设施。有效的基础设施为社会经济活力和广泛改善生活质量奠定了坚实的基础。强大、可靠和有效的基础设施刺激私营部门创新，促进经济增长，创造就业机会，提高公共部门服务提供的效率，加强社区建设，促进机会平等，保护自然环境，增强国家安全，并推动美国的领导地位。为了实现这些目标，需要来自科学和工程学科的专业知识。SAI专注于人类推理和决策，治理以及社会和文化过程的知识如何使建设和维护有效的基础设施，改善生活和社会，并建立在技术和工程进步的基础上。石化管道是关于公众参与大型能源基础设施规划，建设和运营的重要性辩论的中心。对于不同的利益攸关方来说，有效的参与可以带来更安全和更有弹性的项目，同时最大限度地减少负面影响。然而，信息差距和其他程序上的不公平也会阻碍参与。该规划项目调查了公共利益团体如何使用地图、移动的应用程序、环境监测和数据透明度资源来参与管道基础设施。一系列研讨会探讨这些团体如何想象他们的项目导致更强大的参与形式。对管道运营商和监管机构的采访考察了该行业采用新标准的计划，以确定管道运营商如何与公众接触。研究结果为公众更有效地利用技术资源积极参与能源基础设施提供了指导。调查结果还告知行业和监管过程中采用新的标准，最大限度地提高公平参与。本SAI规划项目将研究团队定位于开发更大规模的未来研究项目。从人机交互领域的推测性设计方法用于推进科学技术和社会领域的公共用途“公民技术科学”的研究。所支持的规划活动侧重于管道相关利益攸关方对扩大公众参与的新标准的有用性的不同想象。该项目还考虑了公民技术科学如何通过协作平台和工具包利用这些新机会。一个基于正义的透镜的社会生态技术系统的可持续性研究的目的是产生一个模型，用于分析系统，塑造目前使用的公民技术科学与管道的公共参与，以及如何这些可能会改变作为新的行业标准的结果。这些知识融合产生了新的知识，确定了实现公平和可持续基础设施的必要条件，同时为项目参与者设计的公民技术科学项目的未来实施奠定了基础。经济（SBE）科学。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) is an NSF Program seeking to stimulate human-centered fundamental and potentially transformative research that strengthens America’s infrastructure. Effective infrastructure provides a strong foundation for socioeconomic vitality and broad quality of life improvement. Strong, reliable, and effective infrastructure spurs private-sector innovation, grows the economy, creates jobs, makes public-sector service provision more efficient, strengthens communities, promotes equal opportunity, protects the natural environment, enhances national security, and fuels American leadership. To achieve these goals requires expertise from across the science and engineering disciplines. SAI focuses on how knowledge of human reasoning and decision-making, governance, and social and cultural processes enables the building and maintenance of effective infrastructure that improves lives and society and builds on advances in technology and engineering.Petrochemical pipelines are at the center of debates about the importance of public participation in the planning, construction, and operation of large-scale energy infrastructure. For diverse stakeholders, effective participation can result in safer and more resilient projects, while minimizing negative impacts. However, participation can also be hindered by informational gaps and other procedural inequities. This planning project investigates how public interest groups use mapping, mobile apps, environmental monitoring, and data transparency resources to engage with pipeline infrastructure. A series of workshops explore how these groups imagine their projects leading to more robust forms of participation. Interviews with pipeline operators and regulators examine the industry’s plans to adopt new standards for how pipeline operators engage with the public. Findings provide guidance for more effective public use of technological resources for proactive engagements with energy infrastructure. Findings also inform industry and regulatory processes in the adoption of new standards for maximizing equitable participation. This SAI planning project positions the research team to develop larger-scale future research projects.Speculative design methods from the field of Human-Computer Interactions are used to advance research in the field of Science, Technology, and Society on public uses of “civic technoscience”. The supported planning activities focus on the ways in which pipeline-related stakeholders differently imagine the usefulness of new standards for expanding public participation. The project also considers how civic technoscience can capitalize on these new opportunities through collaborative platforms and toolkits. A justice-based lens to sustainability studies of socio-ecological-technical systems aims to produce a model for analyzing the systems that shape the present use of civic technoscience in public engagements with pipelines, and how these may change as a result of new industry standards. These intellectual convergences produce new knowledge identifying the conditions necessary for achieving equitable and sustainable infrastructure while laying the groundwork for future implementations of civic technoscience projects designed by project participants.This award is supported by the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) Sciences.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.