Proto-Policy

原型政策是一个为期三个月的试点项目，从2015年6月到8月，旨在调查如何“设计小说”-挑衅性的视觉文本（人工制品，图像，电影），实现有关场景，或提供线索，未来的生活方式-可以用来帮助政治家和社区团体想象未来的影响，以创造性的方式政策举措。Proto-policy是艺术与人文研究委员会资助的项目ProtoPublics的一部分，该项目旨在支持研究人员和社区合作伙伴积极参与“制定解决当代问题的新服务、经验、项目和政策”（http：//protopublics.org/）。为了这一试点项目的目的，原政策将侧重于就地老龄化（人们留在家中而不是搬到机构设施）和隔离问题。想象老年生活的替代方式已经成为一种文化关注，因此“最佳异国情调的万寿菊酒店”获得了非凡的成功，但与老年人谈论未来（特别是“老年人”，80岁以上的人）几乎是禁忌。这个项目使用设计小说来解决这个禁忌，邀请老年人想象，并在设计师的帮助下，创造视觉文本（文物，图像，电影），以引人注目的方式实现场景，或提供线索，未来的生活方式。原政策将在雷德鲁斯康沃尔郡的一个辅助护理住房综合体Miners Court的居民中举办一系列创意研讨会，第二个研讨会将在兰开斯特的家中举办（与英国年龄兰开斯特联合），响应“就地养老”政策议程，共同创作未来设计小说，设想“灵活生活”的未来-第三个空间，有独立生活的好处，没有孤独，恐惧和脆弱的缺点-可能看起来像。这些将在威斯敏斯特举行的“设计小说挑衅”活动中与政治家分享，以帮助谈判政治问题。通过其项目合作伙伴，各党派议会设计和创新小组（APDIG）和年龄英国，该项目旨在通过设计小说建立围绕老龄化和孤独的政治问题的限制和机会的共同理解。APDIG是一个由国会议员和设计部门组织组成的跨党派联盟，致力于开发新的设计政策理念，并批评现有的政府设计决策。

Proto-policy is a three month pilot project running from June to August 2015, which aims to investigate how 'design fictions' -provocative visual texts (artefacts, images, films) that materialise scenarios about, or provide clues to, future ways of living-can be used to help politicians and community groups imagine the future implications of policy initiatives in creative ways. Proto-policy is part of the Arts & Humanities Research Council-funded project ProtoPublics, which aims to support researchers and community partners to become active participants in 'crafting new services, experiences, projects and policies that address contemporary issues' (http://protopublics.org/). For the purposes of this pilot, Proto-policy will focus on issues of ageing in place (people remaining in their homes rather than move to institutional facilities) and isolation. Imagining alternative ways of living in old age has become a cultural preoccupation, hence the extraordinary popular success of the 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel', yet talking to older people about the future (particularly the 'older old', those aged 80+) is virtually taboo. This project uses design fictions to address that taboo by inviting older people to imagine and, with the assistance of a designer, create visual texts (artefacts, images, films) that materialise scenarios, or provide clues to, future ways of living in compelling ways. Proto-policy will run a series of creative workshops with residents in Miners Court, an assisted-care housing complex in Redruth Cornwall, and the second with elders living in their own homes in Lancaster (in conjunction with Age UK Lancaster), respond to the 'Ageing in Place' policy agenda by co-creating future design fictions that envisage what a future of 'flexible living' - a third space that has the benefits of independent living without the downsides of loneliness, fear and vulnerability - might look like. These would be shared with politicians in a 'design fiction provocation' event to be held in Westminster in order to help negotiate political questions. Through its project partners, the All-Party Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group (APDIG) and Age UK, this project seeks to build a shared understanding of the constraints and opportunities of political issues around Ageing in Place and loneliness through design fictions. The APDIG is a cross-party coalition of parliamentarians and design sector organisations that works to develop new design policy ideas and critique existing government decision-making around design.