Temporal Ecologies: Supporting wider awareness of, and engagement with, phenology using design and environmental humanities approaches

时间生态学：利用设计和环境人文方法支持更广泛的物候认识和参与

• 批准号: 2753730
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2753730
• 关键词: Temporal; Ecologies; Supporting; wider; awareness

This project will make innovative research contributions to both Environmental Humanities (EH) and Design, firstly by creating a new interdisciplinary bridge with an overlooked field. It will also speak to questions of tuning into temporal cycles that are obscured by dominant orientations to clock time, and explore how experiences of seasonality and climate change in Western societies can be articulated and experienced in localised ways. Insights will also be generated around designing with data for sustainability.The project will utilise the temporal design approach (Pschetz, Bastian, Speed 2016; Pschetz, Bastian 2018) and draw on methods such as design surveys, probes, games, data visualisation and others as fitting the student's interests and experiences. It will be further informed by the Design Informatics approach to designing with data and EH approaches such as critical plant studies and multispecies studies. The student will engage with EH research on ecological time, with interaction design approaches to public and volunteer engagement over the longer term, data sets available from the RBGE and WTNC, and their current strategies for working with recorders. As part of their research they may also gain practical experience in phenology recording.Key questions for the project include: How can design methods support renewed efforts to recruit and retain phenology recorders? How can design processes, objects or interventions use available phenological datasets and research to serve as wider prompts for understanding changing ecological timings? How might citizen scientists' experience of keeping long-term phenological records provide new angles on EH and Design research on supporting awareness of local environments?Working with the RBGE, WTNC and JNCC, we anticipate that these and related questions will be addressed through (a) a qualitative study of phenology recorders' values and practices, (b) engagement with phenology data to create engaging design interventions, (c) the co-development and iteration of a range of design prototypes to support wider participation, and (d) deployment and evaluation of prototypes in context. These are indicative methods. The successful applicant will be expected to tailor the methodology to their research questions and skillset.

该项目将为环境人文（EH）和设计做出创新的研究贡献，首先是在一个被忽视的领域建立一个新的跨学科桥梁。它还将讨论调整时间周期的问题，这些周期被时钟时间的主导方向所掩盖，并探索如何以本地化的方式阐述和体验西方社会的季节性和气候变化经验。还将围绕可持续发展数据设计产生见解。该项目将利用时间设计方法（Pschetz, Bastian, Speed 2016; Pschetz, Bastian 2018），并利用设计调查、探针、游戏、数据可视化等方法来适应学生的兴趣和经验。它将进一步通过设计信息学方法来设计数据和EH方法，如关键植物研究和多物种研究。该学生将参与EH关于生态时间的研究，使用交互设计方法进行长期的公众和志愿者参与，从RBGE和WTNC获得数据集，以及他们目前使用记录仪的策略。作为研究的一部分，他们还可以获得物候记录方面的实践经验。该项目的关键问题包括：设计方法如何支持招募和保留物候记录者的新努力？如何设计过程、对象或干预措施，利用现有的物候数据集和研究，作为理解不断变化的生态时间的更广泛提示？公民科学家保持长期物候记录的经验如何为EH和支持当地环境意识的设计研究提供新的角度？通过与RBGE、WTNC和JNCC的合作，我们预计这些问题和相关问题将通过(a)对物候记录者的价值和实践进行定性研究，(b)利用物候数据创建有吸引力的设计干预，(c)共同开发和迭代一系列设计原型以支持更广泛的参与，以及(d)在背景下部署和评估原型来解决。这些都是指示性方法。成功的申请人将被期望调整他们的研究问题和技能的方法。