Accessing degrowth - Innovating design

减速增长是一种社会想象和生态经济学理论，主张限制全球北方的物质吞吐量，以防止环境破坏和社会不公正(Kallis，2018)。该领域的研究人员认为，这些复杂的问题是由过度生产、消费和物质积累造成的(Hickel，2021)。然而，关于残疾理论和医疗保健研究的讨论目前在发育不良学术中缺失。我的硕士论文强调了这一点。通过文献回顾和半结构化访谈，我发现在技术、医疗保健和公共基础设施中存在着发育迟缓和残疾理论之间的紧张关系；这为我的博士研究项目提供了概念、经验和方法框架。我的硕士研究还强调，减速可提供社会和环境方面的积极成果，通过设计、技术科学和CRIP技术科学宣言(Hamraie和Fritsch，2019年)中概述的残障研究的交叉，可以最大限度地减少残疾研究和减速之间的紧张关系。Hamraie和Fritsch权衡了技术科学对残疾人社区的重要性，以及它在军事工业综合体和非激进主义等压迫系统中的地位。这种二分法集中在这个博士项目中，以确保残疾人体验和环境保护得到平衡，设计被用来颠覆目前辅助技术和医疗保健中使用的身体/心理无效和社会生态破坏性的方法。辅助技术被定义为残疾人、老年人和慢性病患者使用的设备、服务和软件，主要是由大公司中的非残疾人设计师创造的，这些公司很少将残疾人的专业知识和优先事项结合起来。在我之前的研究基础上，我将研究残疾人使用的特别设计。Hamraie和Fritsch(2019)将这一临时设计实践描述为“拆解和建造世界”，残疾人使用这种临时设计实践来重新配置他们的环境，并为无法进入的空间、物体、社区和通信创造量身定制的解决方案。通过这一点，残疾人解决了一些辅助技术、公共空间和医疗保健的无效问题。这一分析将通过对残疾研究的研究得到加强，例如非殖民化残疾研究(PUAR 2017)，并通过调查其他医疗保健模式，例如墨西哥Zapatistas使用的自主医疗(Livingston和Capps，2010年)。我将与残疾人一起工作，非诊断性地招募，以确定对公共基础设施、辅助技术和医疗保健的不同观点，同时审查参与者对个人特别设计实践的观察。访谈和研讨会将采用混合方法；结合相互依赖的残疾研究方法(Price和Kerschbaum，2016)、批判性民族志(Tilley-Lubbs，G.A.，2016)和共同设计(Howard，J.，等人，2022)。我将使用扎根理论分析数据，举办联合设计研讨会，并与减生研究人员讨论发现。我还将在UOE托管的网站上积累收集的数据，以确保公众能够访问。通过这些步骤，我打算确定辅助技术和医疗保健的设计、生产和传播对于想象中的残障人士会是什么样子，为优先考虑残障社区的残障社区贡献重要的研究。在设计方面，它提供了以残疾人专业知识和辅助技术和医疗保健中的社会生态责任为中心的创新视角。这项研究提出了社会和医疗支持的替代手段，残疾人、社区和卫生、平等、技术和环境领域的政策制定者可以利用这些手段来改善目前低于平均水平的框架。

Degrowth, a social imaginary and theory of ecological economics, argues for the limitation of material throughput in the Global North to prevent environmental devastation and social injustice (Kallis, 2018). Researchers in the field argue that these complex problems are created by excessive production, consumption and material accumulation (Hickel, 2021). However, discussions of disability theory and healthcare studies are currently missing from degrowth scholarship. My master's dissertation highlighted this absence. Through literature review and semi-structured interviews, I found tensions between degrowth and disability theory situated within technology, healthcare and public infrastructure; which provides the conceptual, empirical and methodological framework of my doctoral research project. My master's research also highlighted that degrowth offers socially and environmentally positive outcomes and that tensions between disability studies and degrowth may be minimised through intersections of design, technoscience and disability studies outlined in the Crip Technoscience Manifesto (Hamraie and Fritsch, 2019). Hamraie and Fritsch balance technoscience's importance for disabled communities and its situatedness in oppressive systems such as the military industrial complex and extractivism. This dichotomy is centred in this PhD project to ensure that disabled experiences and environmental protection are balanced, with design being used to subvert the physically/psychologically ineffective and socio-ecologically destructive approaches currently utilised within assistive technology and healthcare. Defined as the equipment, services and software used by disabled, elderly and chronically ill people, assistive technology is primarily created by non-disabled designers within large corporations that rarely integrate disabled expertise and priorities.Building upon my previous research, I will study ad-hoc design used by disabled people. Described by Hamraie and Fritsch (2019) as 'world-dismantling and building', this improvised design practice is used by disabled people to reconfigure their environment and create tailored solutions to inaccessible spaces, objects, communities and communications. Through this, disabled people address the ineffectiveness of some assistive technology, public spaces and healthcare. This analysis will be strengthened by research into disability studies, such as decolonial disability studies (Puar 2017) and through investigating other models of healthcare, such as autonomous healthcare used by the Zapatistas in Mexico (Livingston and Capps, 2010). I will work with disabled people, recruiting non-diagnostically, to ascertain varied perspectives on public infrastructure, assistive technology and healthcare, while reviewing participant observations of individual ad-hoc design practices. The interviews and workshops will engage a mixed-methodological approach; combining interdependent disability studies methodology (Price and Kerschbaum, 2016), critical autoethnography (Tilley-Lubbs, G.A, 2016) and co-design (Howard, J., et al., 2022). I will analyse data using grounded theory, run co-design workshops and discuss findings with degrowth researchers. I will also accumulate collected data on a website hosted by the UoE to ensure public access.Through these steps, I intend to ascertain what the design, production and dissemination of assistive technology and healthcare could look like for disabled people in the degrowth imaginary, contributing vital research to degrowth that prioritises disabled communities. For design it offers innovative perspectives centring disabled expertise and socio-ecological responsibility within assistive technology and healthcare. This research presents alternative means of social and medical support that can be utilised by disabled people, communities and policymakers in fields of health, equality, technology and the environment to improve upon current sub-par frameworks.