Design Innovation and Land-Assets (DI&L)

设计创新和土地资产网络将由学者、从业人员、农村可持续性、人文地理、文化政策方面的专家和开展社区土地改革项目的团体组成。在努力制定一个框架时，该网络将把苏格兰赫布里底群岛社区土地所有权的背景作为一个典型案例。这一理由的依据是这一问题的重要性和成熟性，以及它与土地资产决策问题的特殊相关性。利用该网络在这一领域的专门知识，预计由此产生的框架将具有广泛的适用性，知识交流和转移到其他情况下，在英国和超越。拟议的DI&L团队来自GSA的创新学院，由Lynn-Sayers McHattie博士担任首席研究员，Brian狄克逊博士担任共同研究员，另有一名兼职研究助理。林恩有丰富的经验，指导和交付UKRI的项目，包括AHRC的资金投标。该团队将得到高地和岛屿大学的Frank Rennie教授的支持。弗兰克的研究涉及基层社区发展的动画，特别是参与农村综合发展倡议的机制。他的专业知识延伸到确保可持续发展的实际系统以及作为发展机制的相关文化和社会问题。网络中的其他利益攸关方将包括那些参与农村土地使用和共享土地资产的利益攸关方，这些利益攸关方反过来将动员其网络，以加强参与和影响。这些组织和专家将包括苏格兰政府代表、高地和岛屿企业、设计领导人、土地改革专家、在区域专业化和政策领域工作的学者，以及目前正在开展社区土地所有权项目的三个赫布里底群岛社区。 DI&L将在18个月的过程中进行，并将涉及三个相互关联的阶段。DI&L的启动将于2020年1月在创新学院的冬季学校举行，这是GSA高地和岛屿校区为期两周的季节性学校，汇集了100多名研究生和国际学者。我们设想DI&L合作伙伴将召开会议，以确定范围并直观地绘制与治理和决策有关的潜在机遇和挑战，土地改革的合法性以及更广泛的社会文化问题。从这次活动中获得的见解将为在赫布里底群岛背景下设计三次讲习班活动提供信息，已确定的研究助理积极参与社区土地改革。DI&L团队是设计创新方法方面的专家，可以应用这些方法来支持与确定的具体机遇和挑战相关的民主参与和决策。将根据调查结果，为决策框架制定一系列初步参数和原则。该项目将以一场研讨会结束，该研讨会的目的是同时在更广泛的网络中汇集、评估和传播初始框架。学术界以外的影响将是该项目的一个内在组成部分，因为将在讲习班环境中与社区成员和活动家探讨真实的民主问题。项目的传播将通过制作出版物/报告、视觉资产（录像和照片）和学术出版物，以实物和数字方式分发给所有网络伙伴、有关区域和国际决策者以及广大公众。同样，还打算对所有网络活动进行现场直播，使多个外部利益攸关方能够在进程的各个阶段提供投入，并通过避免不必要的旅行来加强项目的生态和环境定位。

The Design Innovation and Land Assets (DI&L) network will be made up of academics, practitioners, specialists in rural sustainability, human geography, cultural policy and groups undertaking community land reform projects. In working to develop a framework, the network will focus on the context of community landownership in the Hebrides in Scotland as an exemplar case. This rationale is based on the prominence and maturity of the issue, and its special relevance for the subject of land-asset decision-making. Drawing on the network's expertise in this area, it is expected that the resulting framework will have wide applicability, knowledge exchange and transferability to other contexts in the UK and beyond. The proposed DI&L team from the GSA's Innovation School comprises of Dr. Lynn-Sayers McHattie as Principal Investigator and Dr. Brian Dixon as Co-Investigator with one part-time research assistant. Lynn has extensive experience of directing and delivering UKRI projects, including AHRC funding bids. The team will be supported by Prof. Frank Rennie at the University of Highlands & Islands. Frank's research involves the animation of grassroots community development, especially mechanisms for participation in integrated rural development initiatives. His expertise extends to the practical systems for securing sustainable development and the attendant cultural and social issues as a mechanism for development. Further stakeholders in the network will include those involved in rural land use and shared land assets who in turn would mobilise their networks allowing for enhanced engagement and impact. It is intended that these organisations and experts would include Scottish Government representatives, Highlands and Islands Enterprise; design leaders, experts in land-reform; and academics working in the area of regional specialisation and policy; as well as three Hebrides communities that are currently in the process of undertaking community landownership projects. DI&L will take place over the course of eighteen months and will involve three inter-related phases. The DI&L launch would take place at the Innovation School's Winter School in January 2020, a two-week long seasonal school at GSA's Highlands & Islands Campus bringing together over 100 Post Graduate students and international academics. We envisage DI&L partners would convene to scope and visually map potential opportunities and challenges, related to governance and decision making, the legalities of land reform and wider socio-cultural issues. The insights from this event would then inform the design of three workshop events based in Hebridean contexts, the Research Assistant who has been identified is actively engaged in community land reform. The DI&L team are experts in design innovation approaches, which can be applied to support democratic engagement and decision-making in relation to the specific opportunities and challenges identified. Based on the findings, a series of initial parameters and principles for a decision-making framework would be formulated. The project would conclude with a symposium, which will aim to simultaneously draw together, evaluate and disseminate the initial framework amongst the wider network. Impact beyond academia will be an embedded component within the project, in the sense that real democratic issues will be explored in the workshop settings with community members and activists. Dissemination of the project will be through the production of a publication/report, visual assets (videos and photography) and academic publications to be distributed both physically and digitally amongst all network partners, relevant regional and international policy-makers and wider publics. Equally, it is intended that all network events will be live-streamed, allowing multiple external stakeholders to input at various stages in the process and enhancing the project's ecological and environmental positioning by avoiding unnecessary travel.