Rules of Thumb: An Investigation into the Potential of Contextual Transposition in Social Design

当搭便车变得足够普遍，足以构成一种公认的交通方式(尽管是违规的)时，那些大拇指举在空中站在十字路口的人，尽管他们可能并不知道这一点，但他们的行动是在利用构成自动驾驶系统的基础设施(汽车、道路、停车位)和移动文化(有关旅行和空间的社会规范)中的裂痕。通过这种方式，他们重新调整了基础设施的一个方面，以满足他们的需求和能力。通过“语境转换”的过程，这项研究考察了搭便车作为一种移动性实践的结构和文化必要性，并通过开发一个设计工具包，利用这一知识来揭示其他基础设施可能被“搭便车”的方式。在这里讨论的邻里规划和公民行动的例子中，一大批行为者可能有未得到满足和开发的需求和能力，这里正在探讨的命题是，搭便车这样的过程可能为个人和组织以新的方式推进其目标提供战术。

When hitchhiking was sufficiently common as to constitute a recognised mode of transport (albeit a transgressive one), those who stood by road junctions with their thumbs in the air, though they may not have known it, were acting to exploit fissures in the infrastructure (the cars, roads, laybys) and mobile cultures (social norms around travel and spatiality) that constitute the automobility system. In this way they repurposed an aspect of an infrastructure to suit their needs, and capabilities. Through a process of 'Contextual Transposition', this research examines the structural and cultural imperatives of hitching as a mobility practice and, through the development of a design toolkit, uses this knowledge to reveal ways in which other infrastructures may be 'hitched'. In the examples examined here, that of neighbourhood planning and civic action, a whole range of actors may have needs and capabilities that are unfulfilled and untapped, and the proposition being explored here is that a process such as hitching may offer tactics for individuals and organizations to further their objectives in novel ways.