The Dewey Organ: making problems and publics

这项拟议的研究是一项“共同设计”的实验，旨在制作制造问题和公开的方式的原型。这项研究直接解决了资金募集的核心问题，对以实践为基础的研究人员、设计师和政策制定者至关重要，即：什么是社会‘问题’，什么是公众问题？尽管这些学科是制造问题的实践，但要产生研究产生的问题并不容易。问题和公众不是被给予的，也不是等待被发现的。它们也不是成对的。它们是被造出来的。制造问题是一个问题。拟议的研究明确地从实质性、实践性、现实性和初步试点公众角度探讨了这些问题。该提案通过两个相互关联的以实践为基础的研究程序来处理这些核心问题：第一，研究旨在构建一台制造问题的‘机器’，使问题以新的方式变得有形、物质和有争议，第二，研究将把机器置于公众可以互动的背景下，将问题具体化和定制化，并在这样做的过程中让他们的公众知道或指示围绕新问题出现的新公众。我们目标建立的机器的名字--杜威机构--来自约翰·杜威(John Dewey)1927年的《公众及其问题》(The Public And Its Problems)，该书批判性地审视公民参与以及公民与专家之间的关系。管风琴是一种用来制造声音、和谐和不和谐的装置，也是把人们聚集在一起的装置。它还谈到了物质身体政治，这是对公众的解剖。研究提案是在关键问题和公共制造方面的合作实验。它直接建立在研究团队在社会学和设计(金匠)和设计主导的研究(DJCAD Dundee)方面的跨学科专业知识的基础上，以及其非学术合作伙伴公民研讨会的实践者专业知识，后者批判性地参与当地的社会政治问题。

The proposed research is a 'co-design' experiment to prototype ways of making problems and publics. The research directly addresses issues central to the funding call and is critical to practice-based researchers, designers and policymakers, namely: what counts as a social 'problem' and what publics do problems bring into being? Although these disciplines are problem-making practices, it is not easy to generate the problem from which research emerges. Problems and publics are not given or waiting to be found. They also do not come in convenient pairs. They are made. It is a problem to make problems. The proposed research explicitly explores these issues materially, in practice, in place and with an initial pilot public. The proposal approaches these core concerns by way of two interrelated practice-based research procedures: first,the research aims to construct a problem-making 'machine' with which to render issues tangible, material and debatable in new ways, and second, the research will place the machine in a context where members of publics can interact with, problematize and customize problems and in doing so make their publics known or indicate new publics that arise around new issues..The machine we aim to build takes its name - 'The Dewey Organ' - from John Dewey's (1927) 'The Public and its Problems' which critically examines civic participation and the relationships between citizens and experts. The Organ is a device for making sound, harmony and dissonance, and of bringing people together. It also speaks of the material body politic, an anatomy of publics.The research proposal is a collaborative experiment in critical problem and public making. It directly builds on the research team's interdisciplinary expertise in sociology and design (Goldsmiths), and design-led research (DJCAD Dundee) as well as the practitioner expertise of its non-academic partner, Civic Workshop, who critically engage with local socio-political issues.