RAPID: COVID-19, Remote Ethnography, and the Rural Alaskan Housing Crisis

该RAPID奖支持实时研究COVID-19对阿拉斯加农村住房不安全和非现场住宅模块化建筑设计的影响。PI团队进行的初步研究表明，COVID-19已经改变了建筑商和建筑师与阿拉斯加农村社区合作设计、建造和安装非现场模块化建筑项目的方式。pi建议记录和分析虚拟咨询和协作的新模式是如何部署的，弹性和创新在新建筑实践的发展中扮演什么角色，以及新的建筑解决方案如何影响家庭和社区结构。该奖项为随后的研究奠定了基础，研究如何将住房建设的转变与阿拉斯加有限的农村基础设施的广泛关注相结合。项目小组将与利益攸关方进行远程访谈和参与性讲习班，以记录大流行对非现场住宅模块化建筑做法的影响。拟议的工作借鉴了五个月的初步研究，并与从事寒冷气候住房的建筑商、建筑师和工程师建立了现有的合作伙伴关系。RAPID资助将使项目负责人能够观察项目设计和开发的初始阶段，跟踪与偏远农村社区合作的建筑商采用的后勤战略和解决方案。最初的重点将放在两个非现场模块化建筑项目上：Unalakleet的老人舱和Allakaket的妇女庇护所。更广泛的影响包括建筑商对寒冷气候下农村和土著居民表达的需求作出更大的反应，并支持在阿拉斯加开发更具文化适应性和可持续性的住房。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 RAPID award supports the real-time study of the impacts of COVID-19 on housing insecurity and off-site residential modular construction design in rural Alaska. Preliminary research conducted by the PI team demonstrates that COVID-19 has already changed how builders and architects work with rural Alaska communities to design, construct and install off-site modular construction projects. The PIs propose to document and analyze how new models of virtual consultation and collaboration are being deployed, what roles resilience and innovation play in the development of new building practices, and how new building solutions affect family and community structure. This award lays the foundation for subsequent research on how transformations in housing construction intersect with broader concerns over limited rural infrastructure in Alaska. The PI team will conduct remote interviews and participatory workshops with stakeholders to document the effects of the pandemic on off-site residential modular construction practices. The proposed work draws upon five months of preliminary research and existing partnerships with builders, architects and engineers working on cold climate housing. RAPID funding will enable the PIs to observe the initial stages of project design and development, tracking logistical strategies and solutions employed by builders working with remote rural communities. Initial focus will be on two off-site modular building projects: elder pods in Unalakleet and a women’s shelter in Allakaket. Broader impacts include greater responsiveness of builders to expressed needs of rural and Indigenous residents in cold climates and support for the development of more culturally appropriate and sustainable housing in Alaska.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.