Ecological Citizens: Tools, technologies and means to enable sustainable digital citizens

生态公民：实现可持续数字公民的工具、技术和手段

• 批准号: EP/W020610/1
• 负责人: Robert Phillips
• 金额: $ 338.04万
• 依托单位: Royal College of Art
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FW020610%2F1
• 关键词: Ecological; Citizens; Tools; technologies; means

To realise the transformational impact of digital technologies on aspects of community life, cultural experiences, future society, and the economy, the RCA proposes to host a DE Network+ focused on digital interventions that would create 'the conditions to make change' towards a sustainable post-industrial society - where the 'product' is the experience, where experiences promote human wellbeing and personal resilience, where the digital interventions are sustainable and promote societal resilience. To achieve a sustainable society, citizens require agency to control the impact they have on the natural environment. Therefore, an Ecological Citizens (EC) Network+ sustainable digital society would use digital technology to: Decouple the use of materials resources from economic development; add value to products through experiences and services; give citizens agency to take care of their environment (relating to waste reduction and reuse, energy generation); give citizens agency to design their own experiences involving products, which promote wellbeing, learning, self-advancement; enable experiences that empower citizens to do, to make, to repair, to learn, to create, to connect, to communicate, to interact, to understand, to share, to enjoy. This Network+ foresees the next move in technological interventions is in creating and implementing "the conditions to make change", i.e. the experiences and interactions, and digitally networked societal actors that enable sustainable transitions for societies and communities. To enact this vision, this proposal focuses on a model of 'distributed everything' - knowledge and know-how, design, materials flows, fabrication and hacking, energy generation - as the fundamental societal transformations that are needed to achieve sustainability require a re-examination of how knowledge is produced and used. Co-production of research is a key mechanism for improving the knowledge required for the fundamental societal transformations needed to achieve sustainability [1], and is central to the approach of the EC Network+.With leading partners, we will inform a truly sustainable 'digital society', built within communities, ensuring legacies through ambassadors, and setting agendas for future transdisciplinary research teams. The EC Network+ will provide a scaffolding to spawn new projects about sustainability at a range of scales (Village, Town, City). This collaborative trans-disciplinary approach is essential for tackling our unprecedented environmental challenges. The network will be built through activities including pump priming, collaborative residentials, learning webinars, strategic roundtables, media and communications, reports, podcasts, and a micro funding scheme. The academic consortium covers the core areas of computer science, sustainable engineering, human-centred design and citizen science. Led by the Royal College of Art (RCA), this proposal builds on Dr Phillips' My Naturewatch, a DIY wildlife camera project that engaged 3 million+ people with UK based wildlife, the circular economy work of the RCA's Materials Science Centre (Prof Baurley), the sustainable engineering and physical computing expertise of the Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology at Wrexham Glyndwr University (Prof Shepley), and expertise in citizen science and policy of the Stockholm Environment Institute at The University of York (Dr West).

为了实现数字技术对社区生活、文化体验、未来社会和经济方面的变革性影响，RCA提议举办一个专注于数字干预的DE网络+，该网络将为可持续的后工业社会创造“改变的条件”——在这个社会中，“产品”就是体验，体验促进人类福祉和个人弹性。数字干预是可持续的，并能促进社会复原力。为了实现一个可持续发展的社会，公民需要机构来控制他们对自然环境的影响。因此，生态公民（EC）网络+可持续数字社会将利用数字技术：将物质资源的使用与经济发展脱钩；通过体验和服务为产品增值；给予公民保护环境的权力（与减少和再利用废物、能源生产有关）；赋予公民设计自己的产品体验的权力，这些产品可以促进幸福、学习和自我提升；让公民有能力去做，去制造，去修复，去学习，去创造，去联系，去交流，去互动，去理解，去分享，去享受。“网络+”预测，技术干预的下一步是创造和实施“变革的条件”，即经验和互动，以及实现社会和社区可持续转型的数字化网络化社会行动者。为了实现这一愿景，本提案将重点放在“分布式一切”的模型上——知识和技术、设计、材料流、制造和黑客、能源生产——因为实现可持续发展所需的基本社会变革需要重新审视知识的生产和使用方式。共同研究是提高实现可持续发展所需的基本社会变革所需知识的关键机制，也是欧洲共同体网络+方法的核心。与领先的合作伙伴一起，我们将在社区内建立一个真正可持续的“数字社会”，通过大使确保遗产，并为未来的跨学科研究团队制定议程。EC Network+将提供一个脚手架，以催生一系列规模（村庄、城镇、城市）的可持续发展新项目。这种跨学科的合作方法对于应对我们前所未有的环境挑战至关重要。该网络将通过一系列活动建立起来，包括启动、合作住宅、学习网络研讨会、战略圆桌会议、媒体和通信、报告、播客和小额资助计划。该学术联盟涵盖计算机科学、可持续工程、以人为本的设计和公民科学等核心领域。该提案由皇家艺术学院（RCA）牵头，以菲利普斯博士的“我的自然观察”为基础，这是一个DIY野生动物相机项目，有300多万人参与了英国的野生动物，RCA材料科学中心的循环经济工作（Baurley教授），雷克瑟姆格林多大学艺术、科学和技术学院的可持续工程和物理计算专业知识（Shepley教授），约克大学斯德哥尔摩环境研究所的公民科学和政策专家（韦斯特博士）。