Conference: "EXTREME Design": Examining Frontiers and Research in Extreme Design

社会面临着许多重大挑战，包括环境可持续性、水资源不安全、气候变化和全球贫困。这些挑战需要系统级的解决方案，将多个学科结合起来，以适应解决方案复杂性的快速增长，并超越标准条件和方法。极限设计（XD）是一个新兴的设计研究领域，从本质上讲，它关注的是特殊的主题，从极端环境的设计到极高复杂性的系统设计。该奖项将支持来自美国东北地区跨学科研究人员的两个会议研讨会，以更好地定义和推进该领域的学术研究。该奖项反映了NSF推动科学进步和解决影响国家福利和安全问题的使命。研讨会将包括来自不同学科的学者，包括工程、设计、经济学、公共政策、建筑、地球科学、管理学、心理学、物理学、生命科学和人类学。讲习班将包括小组讨论、便利的分组会议和研究概念论文的发展。研讨会将探讨、定义和发展新兴的极限设计领域的研究机会空间和相关的研究问题。除了确定引人注目的研究问题外，研讨会参与者还将调查和背景化当前设计工具，流程和方法在解决极端设计挑战时存在的差距。该系列研讨会将作为工程设计和系统工程（EDSE）社区内外关于极限设计主题的拓展的跳板，并将通过后续的学术会议、期刊特刊和行业合作来激发进一步的讨论和社区建设。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。

Society faces many grand challenges, including environmental sustainability, water insecurity, climate change, and global poverty. These challenges demand system-level solutions that bring together multiple disciplines commensurate with rapid growth in the complexity of solutions and that reach beyond standard conditions and approaches. Extreme Design (XD) is an emerging field of design research that is, by its nature, focused on exceptional topics, from designing for extreme environments to designing systems of extremely high complexity. This award will support two conference workshops with interdisciplinary researchers from the US Northeast region to better define and advance academic research in this field. This award reflects NSF’s mission to advance scientific progress and address issues affecting national welfare and security. The workshops will include scholars from diverse disciplines, including engineering, design, economics, public policy, architecture, geoscience, management, psychology, physics, life sciences, and anthropology. The workshops will include panel discussions, facilitated breakout sessions, and the development of research concept papers. The workshop sessions will explore, define, and develop research opportunity spaces and related research questions for the emerging Extreme Design field. In addition to identifying compelling research questions, workshop participants will investigate and contextualize where gaps exist in current design tools, processes, and methods when addressing extreme design challenges. This workshop series will serve as a springboard for outreach on the topic of Extreme Design within and outside the engineering design and systems engineering (EDSE) communities, and will be used to stimulate further discussion and community building through follow-on academic conference sessions, journal special issues, and industry collaborations.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.