Design Innovation and Land-Assets: Towards New Thinking & Communities

设计创新和土地资产（DI&L） FoF项目将把学者、设计师、艺术家、农村可持续发展专家、人文地理学家、文化政策工作者和社区团体联系起来。根据具体情况制定的方案将侧重于岛屿社区在社会、文化、经济（包括非货币经济）因素和相关福利领域的共同土地资产和使用的衔接。该项目将包括在奥克尼、设得兰群岛和马尔岛举办一系列特定场地的共同设计研讨会。从三个岛屿情况中获得的见解的三角测量反过来将为决策提供信息，例如，关于现在由社区拥有的乌尔瓦岛的重新人口。通过分享参与性和共同设计方法，岛屿社区将具备改变其决策做法和治理方法的技能。来自GSA创新学院的DI&L团队由Lynn-Sayers McHattie教授担任首席研究员，DI&L联合研究员Brian Dixon博士，阿尔斯特大学继续担任联合研究员，GSA跨学科设计读者Elio Caccavale作为专家研究员加入团队。McHattie教授在指导和交付UKRI项目方面拥有丰富的经验，包括AHRC资助的项目；Dixon博士擅长以实践为基础的研究方法，以及设计与地点之间的理论联系；Elio Caccavale的作品将设计与科学相结合，探索人类、自然和景观之间的关系。还将招聘一名研究助理来支持该团队。DI&L将得到加强，项目合伙人克里斯·弗里曼特尔、西尔莎·希金斯和凯瑟琳·钱皮恩博士分别在以下方面拥有专业知识：生态理论和实践；艺术生态学与人类世；文化政策的形成。除此之外，设得兰艺术发展局的Graeme Howell和码头艺术中心的Carol Dunbar将作为项目合作伙伴加入- PI与这两个组织都有长期的关系。PI和AHRC资助的心智景观网络的Anna Hicks博士已经确定了他们各自项目的协同作用，特别是与奥克尼有关的项目，Hicks博士也将作为项目合伙人加入DI&L团队。所有项目合作伙伴都发出了支持信，并确认对DI&L计划进行“实物”捐助。进一步的利益相关者将包括马尔和爱奥纳社区信托基金，苏格兰政府代表和高地和岛屿企业。DI&L FoF将在18个月的时间内进行，从2020年2月1日开始，与DI&L网络同时进行，并以DI&L网络为基础，将涉及三个相互关联的阶段：范围和规划；交付;和评估。一系列合作设计研讨会将探讨设计创新原则和实践如何提供更全面的方法，以支持有效的、具体化的和体验性的见解，以反映土著岛屿社区多样化的环境和历史资产。在联合设计总编辑珍妮特·麦克唐纳教授的支持下，进一步的研讨会将呼吁联合设计杂志关于土地资产的特刊。该计划将于2021年5月以DI&L研讨会结束，该研讨会将同时汇集，评估和传播见解和发现。学术以外的影响将是该项目的一个内在组成部分，从某种意义上说，真正的问题将在与社区成员和活动家的研讨会上探讨。该项目的传播将通过出版/报告、视觉资产（视频和摄影）的形式和数字形式分发给所有合作伙伴、相关的区域和国际决策者以及更广泛的公众。

The Design Innovation and Land Assets (DI&L) FoF project will connect academics, designers, artists, rural sustainability experts, human geographers, cultural policy workers and community groups. The contextually located programme will focus on the articulation of island communities shared land assets and use in relation to social, cultural, economic (including non-monetary economic) factors and associated wellbeing domains. The programme will comprise of a series of site specific co design workshops in Orkney, Shetland and Mull. The triangulation of insights from the three island contexts will in turn inform decision-making, for example, regarding the repopulation of Ulva, which is now in community ownership. Through sharing participatory and co-design methods, island communities will be equipped with the skills to transform their decision-making practices as well as their approaches to governance. The proposed DI&L team from the GSA's Innovation School comprises of Professor Lynn-Sayers McHattie as Principal Investigator, DI&L Co-Investigator Dr Brian Dixon, University of Ulster continuing in the role of Co-Investigator with Elio Caccavale, GSA Reader in Transdisciplinary Design joining the team as a specialist researcher. Prof. McHattie has extensive experience of directing and delivering UKRI projects, including AHRC funded projects; Dr Dixon has expertise in practice-based research methodologies, as well as the theoretical linkages between design and place; Elio Caccavale's work at the intersection of design and science explores the relations between humans, nature and landscape. A Research Assistant will also be recruited to support the team. DI&L will be enhanced with the inclusion of Project Partners Chris Fremantle, Saoirse Higgins and Dr Katherine Champion who each respectively hold expertise in: ecological theory and practice; art ecology and the Anthropocene; and cultural policy formation. Beyond this, Graeme Howell, Shetland Arts Development Agency and Carol Dunbar, Pier Arts Centre will join as Project Partners - the PI has long standing relationships with both organisations. The PI and Dr Anna Hicks of AHRC funded Landscapes of the Mind Network have identified synergies across their respective projects, particularly related to Orkney, and Dr Hicks will also join the DI&L team as a Project Partner. All Project Partners have issued Letters of Support and confirmed "in kind" contribution to the DI&L programme. Further stakeholders will include Mull & Iona Community Trust, Scottish Government representatives and Highlands & Islands Enterprise. DI&L FoF will take place over the course of 18 months, commencing 1st February 2020 in parallel with and building on the DI&L Network and will involve three inter-related phases: scoping and planning; delivery; and evaluation. A series of co design workshops will investigate how design innovation principles and practices can provide more holistic approaches to support effective, embodied and experiential insights into land-use decisions that reflect the diverse environmental and historical assets of indigenous island communities. A further workshop will develop a call for a Special Issue of CoDesign Journal on Land Assets, supported by Professor Janet McDonnell Editor in Chief CoDesign. The programme will conclude with a DI&L symposium in May 2021, which will simultaneously draw together, evaluate and disseminate the insights and findings. Impact beyond academia will be an embedded component within the project, in the sense that real issues will be explored in the workshops with community members and activists. Dissemination of the project will occur through the production of a publication/report, visual assets (videos and photography) to be distributed both physically and digitally amongst all partners, relevant regional and international policy-makers and wider publics.