Design Innovation and Land-Assets (DI&L)

设计创新和土地资产（DI&L）网络将由农村可持续发展、人文地理、文化政策和社区土地改革项目团体的学者、从业者、专家组成。在努力制定一个框架时，该网络将把重点放在苏格兰赫布里底群岛社区土地所有权的情况下，作为一个范例。这一理由是基于这一问题的突出性和成熟性，以及它与土地资产决策这一主题的特殊相关性。利用该网络在这一领域的专业知识，预计最终的框架将具有广泛的适用性，知识交流和可转移性，适用于英国和其他地区的其他背景。来自GSA创新学院的DI&L团队由Lynn-Sayers McHattie博士担任首席研究员，Brian Dixon博士担任联合研究员，并有一名兼职研究助理。Lynn拥有指导和交付UKRI项目的丰富经验，包括AHRC资助投标。该团队将由高地与岛屿大学的Frank Rennie教授提供支持。弗兰克的研究涉及基层社区发展的动态，特别是参与农村综合发展倡议的机制。他的专门知识涉及确保可持续发展的实际系统以及作为发展机制的随之而来的文化和社会问题。网络中的其他利益相关者将包括那些参与农村土地使用和共享土地资产的人，他们反过来将调动他们的网络，从而增强参与和影响。这些组织和专家将包括苏格兰政府代表、高地和岛屿企业；设计领袖、土地改革专家；以及在区域专业化和政策领域工作的学者；以及目前正在进行社区土地所有权项目的三个赫布里底群岛社区。DI&L将在18个月的过程中进行，将涉及三个相互关联的阶段。DI&L的启动将于2020年1月在创新学院的冬季学校举行，这是一个为期两周的季节性学校，位于GSA的高地和岛屿校区，汇集了100多名研究生和国际学者。我们设想DI&L合作伙伴将聚集在一起，对与治理和决策、土地改革的合法性以及更广泛的社会文化问题有关的潜在机遇和挑战进行界定和可视化绘制。从这次活动中获得的见解将为以赫布里底群岛为基础的三个讲习班活动的设计提供信息，已确定的研究助理正在积极参与社区土地改革。DI&L团队是设计创新方法方面的专家，可以应用于支持与所确定的具体机遇和挑战相关的民主参与和决策。根据调查结果，将为决策框架拟订一系列初步参数和原则。该项目最后将举行一次专题讨论会，目的是同时在更广泛的网络中汇集、评价和传播初步框架。学术以外的影响将是该项目的一个内在组成部分，因为真正的民主问题将在与社区成员和活动家的研讨会环境中探讨。该项目的传播将通过制作出版物/报告、视觉资产（视频和摄影）和学术出版物，以实物和数字方式分发给所有网络伙伴、有关区域和国际决策者以及更广泛的公众。同样，所有网络事件都将进行直播，允许多个外部利益相关者在过程的各个阶段输入，并通过避免不必要的旅行来增强项目的生态和环境定位。

The Design Innovation and Land Assets (DI&L) network will be made up of academics, practitioners, specialists in rural sustainability, human geography, cultural policy and groups undertaking community land reform projects. In working to develop a framework, the network will focus on the context of community landownership in the Hebrides in Scotland as an exemplar case. This rationale is based on the prominence and maturity of the issue, and its special relevance for the subject of land-asset decision-making. Drawing on the network's expertise in this area, it is expected that the resulting framework will have wide applicability, knowledge exchange and transferability to other contexts in the UK and beyond. The proposed DI&L team from the GSA's Innovation School comprises of Dr. Lynn-Sayers McHattie as Principal Investigator and Dr. Brian Dixon as Co-Investigator with one part-time research assistant. Lynn has extensive experience of directing and delivering UKRI projects, including AHRC funding bids. The team will be supported by Prof. Frank Rennie at the University of Highlands & Islands. Frank's research involves the animation of grassroots community development, especially mechanisms for participation in integrated rural development initiatives. His expertise extends to the practical systems for securing sustainable development and the attendant cultural and social issues as a mechanism for development. Further stakeholders in the network will include those involved in rural land use and shared land assets who in turn would mobilise their networks allowing for enhanced engagement and impact. It is intended that these organisations and experts would include Scottish Government representatives, Highlands and Islands Enterprise; design leaders, experts in land-reform; and academics working in the area of regional specialisation and policy; as well as three Hebrides communities that are currently in the process of undertaking community landownership projects. DI&L will take place over the course of eighteen months and will involve three inter-related phases. The DI&L launch would take place at the Innovation School's Winter School in January 2020, a two-week long seasonal school at GSA's Highlands & Islands Campus bringing together over 100 Post Graduate students and international academics. We envisage DI&L partners would convene to scope and visually map potential opportunities and challenges, related to governance and decision making, the legalities of land reform and wider socio-cultural issues. The insights from this event would then inform the design of three workshop events based in Hebridean contexts, the Research Assistant who has been identified is actively engaged in community land reform. The DI&L team are experts in design innovation approaches, which can be applied to support democratic engagement and decision-making in relation to the specific opportunities and challenges identified. Based on the findings, a series of initial parameters and principles for a decision-making framework would be formulated. The project would conclude with a symposium, which will aim to simultaneously draw together, evaluate and disseminate the initial framework amongst the wider network. Impact beyond academia will be an embedded component within the project, in the sense that real democratic issues will be explored in the workshop settings with community members and activists. Dissemination of the project will be through the production of a publication/report, visual assets (videos and photography) and academic publications to be distributed both physically and digitally amongst all network partners, relevant regional and international policy-makers and wider publics. Equally, it is intended that all network events will be live-streamed, allowing multiple external stakeholders to input at various stages in the process and enhancing the project's ecological and environmental positioning by avoiding unnecessary travel.