Doctoral Dissertation Research: Innovating Housing Design in Response to Ecological Hazards

本论文项目将研究居民社区如何与专业规划师和非政府设计专家合作，为新的公共住房开发新的基础设施愿景和能力。探索城市设计倡议，将服务不足的社区纳入未来住房设计和政策策略的创建中，分析其在应对不平等和生态破坏（如火灾、洪水和干旱）方面的功效。除了为一名人类学研究生的经验、科学数据收集和分析方法培训提供资金外，该项目还将通过视觉演示、研讨会和报告向利益相关者社区和专家传达其研究结果，增强对当代城市住房需求的科学理解。在规划官员和设计专业人士制定下一代住房设计和政策评估时，研究结果也将与他们分享。本研究将评估和解释住房基础设施的价值、愿景和潜在优势，这些基础设施是通过公民参与设计、建造和维护而逐步建造和升级的。通过分析规划师和设计师如何引入新的可扩展住房解决方案，本研究将考察居民和专业人士的经济、社会和情感投资。通过为期12个月的扩展民族志研究，包括参与者观察、半结构化访谈、档案工作、空间测绘和协作分析，本研究将调查居民社区、设计和规划专业人员以及政府倡议如何利用策略，可能对持续的社会经济不平等、剥夺和生态危害做出创新反应。研究结果将解决人们在生态危害、城市土地稀缺和社会空间持续隔离的时代如何应对和应对住房需求和新基础设施需求的增长。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This dissertation project will investigate how resident communities, working with professional planners and non-governmental design experts, develop novel infrastructural visions and capacities for new public housing. Exploring urban design initiatives that involve under-served neighborhoods in the creation of future housing designs and policy strategies, it analyzes their efficacy in responding to inequalities as well as ecological disruptions (such as fires, flooding and droughts). In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, the project will enhance the scientific understanding of contemporary urban housing needs by communicating its findings in visual presentations, workshops, and reports to stakeholder communities and experts. The results will also be shared with planning officials and design professionals as they formulate the next generation of housing designs and policies assessments.This research will assess and interpret the values, visions, and potential advantages of housing infrastructure that is incrementally built and upgraded through citizen’s participation in the design, building, and maintenance over time. By analyzing how planners and designers introduce new scalable housing solutions, this research will examine the economic, social, and affective investments of both residents and professionals. Through twelve months of extended ethnographic research, including participant observation, semi-structured interviews, archival work, spatial mapping and with a collaborative analytic, this research will investigate how the strategies utilized by resident communities, design and planning professionals, and government initiatives, may be creating innovative responses to continuous socio-economic inequality, dispossessions, and ecological hazards. The research results will address concerns regarding how people cope with and react to the rise of housing demands and new infrastructure requirements in an era of ecological hazards, scarce urban land, and continuous socio-spatial segregations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.