Design Innovation and Land-Assets: Towards New Thinking & Communities

设计创新和土地资产(DI&L)FOF项目将把学者、设计师、艺术家、农村可持续发展专家、人文地理学家、文化政策工作者和社区团体联系起来。根据具体情况，该方案将侧重于与社会、文化、经济(包括非货币经济)因素和相关福祉领域有关的岛屿社区共有土地资产和使用的联系。该计划将包括在奥克尼、设得兰和穆尔举行的一系列现场联合设计研讨会。对三个岛屿情况的深入了解的三角测量将反过来为决策提供信息，例如，关于现在由社区所有的乌尔瓦的重新人口问题。通过分享参与和共同设计的方法，岛屿社区将掌握转变其决策做法和治理方法的技能。GSA创新学院拟议的DI和L团队包括首席研究员Lynn-Sayers McHattie教授、DI和L联合调查员Brian Dixon博士、阿尔斯特大学继续担任联合调查员的角色，以及GSA跨学科设计读者Elio Caccavale作为专家研究员加入团队。McHattie教授在指导和实施UKRI项目方面拥有丰富的经验，包括AHRC资助的项目；Dixon博士在以实践为基础的研究方法以及设计与地点之间的理论联系方面拥有专业知识；Elio Caccavale在设计与科学的交叉点上的工作探索了人类、自然和景观之间的关系。还将招聘一名研究助理为该小组提供支助。Di&L项目合作伙伴Chris Fremantle、Saoirse Higgins和Katherine Champion博士将得到加强，他们分别在生态理论和实践、艺术生态学和人类世以及文化政策形成方面拥有专业知识。除此之外，设得兰艺术发展署的格雷姆·豪厄尔和码头艺术中心的卡罗尔·邓巴将作为项目合作伙伴加入--国际和平与这两个组织都有长期的合作关系。PI和AHRC资助的Mind Network景观项目的Anna Hicks博士已经确定了他们各自项目的协同效应，特别是与Orkney相关的项目，Hicks博士还将作为项目合作伙伴加入DI&L团队。所有项目合作伙伴都已发出支持函，并确认为DI&L方案提供“实物”捐助。其他利益相关者将包括Mull&Iona社区信托基金、苏格兰政府代表和高地和岛屿企业。从2020年2月1日开始，为期18个月的DI&L论坛将与DI&L网络并行并在其基础上发展，将涉及三个相互关联的阶段：范围界定和规划、交付和评价。一系列共同设计讲习班将探讨设计创新原则和做法如何能够提供更全面的办法，以支持对反映土著岛屿社区不同环境和历史资产的土地使用决策的有效、具体和体验式的见解。另一个研讨会将在共同设计主编珍妮特·麦克唐奈教授的支持下，为《共同设计杂志》土地资产特刊发出征集。该方案将以2021年5月DI&L研讨会结束，研讨会将同时汇集、评估和传播见解和调查结果。学术界以外的影响将是该项目的一个组成部分，在这个意义上，真正的问题将在与社区成员和活动家一起举办的研讨会上进行探索。将通过制作出版物/报告、视觉资产(录像和摄影)向所有合作伙伴、相关的地区和国际政策制定者以及更广泛的公众进行实物和数字传播来传播该项目。

The Design Innovation and Land Assets (DI&L) FoF project will connect academics, designers, artists, rural sustainability experts, human geographers, cultural policy workers and community groups. The contextually located programme will focus on the articulation of island communities shared land assets and use in relation to social, cultural, economic (including non-monetary economic) factors and associated wellbeing domains. The programme will comprise of a series of site specific co design workshops in Orkney, Shetland and Mull. The triangulation of insights from the three island contexts will in turn inform decision-making, for example, regarding the repopulation of Ulva, which is now in community ownership. Through sharing participatory and co-design methods, island communities will be equipped with the skills to transform their decision-making practices as well as their approaches to governance. The proposed DI&L team from the GSA's Innovation School comprises of Professor Lynn-Sayers McHattie as Principal Investigator, DI&L Co-Investigator Dr Brian Dixon, University of Ulster continuing in the role of Co-Investigator with Elio Caccavale, GSA Reader in Transdisciplinary Design joining the team as a specialist researcher. Prof. McHattie has extensive experience of directing and delivering UKRI projects, including AHRC funded projects; Dr Dixon has expertise in practice-based research methodologies, as well as the theoretical linkages between design and place; Elio Caccavale's work at the intersection of design and science explores the relations between humans, nature and landscape. A Research Assistant will also be recruited to support the team. DI&L will be enhanced with the inclusion of Project Partners Chris Fremantle, Saoirse Higgins and Dr Katherine Champion who each respectively hold expertise in: ecological theory and practice; art ecology and the Anthropocene; and cultural policy formation. Beyond this, Graeme Howell, Shetland Arts Development Agency and Carol Dunbar, Pier Arts Centre will join as Project Partners - the PI has long standing relationships with both organisations. The PI and Dr Anna Hicks of AHRC funded Landscapes of the Mind Network have identified synergies across their respective projects, particularly related to Orkney, and Dr Hicks will also join the DI&L team as a Project Partner. All Project Partners have issued Letters of Support and confirmed "in kind" contribution to the DI&L programme. Further stakeholders will include Mull & Iona Community Trust, Scottish Government representatives and Highlands & Islands Enterprise. DI&L FoF will take place over the course of 18 months, commencing 1st February 2020 in parallel with and building on the DI&L Network and will involve three inter-related phases: scoping and planning; delivery; and evaluation. A series of co design workshops will investigate how design innovation principles and practices can provide more holistic approaches to support effective, embodied and experiential insights into land-use decisions that reflect the diverse environmental and historical assets of indigenous island communities. A further workshop will develop a call for a Special Issue of CoDesign Journal on Land Assets, supported by Professor Janet McDonnell Editor in Chief CoDesign. The programme will conclude with a DI&L symposium in May 2021, which will simultaneously draw together, evaluate and disseminate the insights and findings. Impact beyond academia will be an embedded component within the project, in the sense that real issues will be explored in the workshops with community members and activists. Dissemination of the project will occur through the production of a publication/report, visual assets (videos and photography) to be distributed both physically and digitally amongst all partners, relevant regional and international policy-makers and wider publics.