Net-Zero Design Research Network

全球冠状病毒大流行已经并正在迫使世界上许多人重塑他们的思维、他们的行为，并扰乱行业运作模式，以适应新的常态(套用Cohen(2020)的话)。我们已经并正在经历实施的行动限制和社会疏远措施，其结果是：减少了道路交通和航空旅行，发展了非同步和同步学习，更新了公民资本，兴起了当地电子商务服务和自给自足的当地社区。在人类世时代，国家、地区和次区域政府、社区和公众都亲身经历了我们需要采取的集体行动，以实现英国到2050年将所有温室气体排放净额降至零的承诺(英国政府，2019年)。设计既不是免疫的，也不是中立的活动(Thackera，2013)。新冠肺炎疫情迫使设计界接受并正视其对气候紧急情况的共谋和认知失衡。我们反思的目光暴露了设计的行星负荷的沉重(跨越研究、教育和实践领域)，以及逃离美杜莎的迫切需要(卡尔维诺，1988)。对以生活为中心的设计方法的引力有一个最近的历史，它仍然是小的和分散的，然而，它也没有跟上社会、制度和商业模式的步伐，这些模式作为流行病的直接后果向前跃升了五年(麦肯锡，2020)。罗杰斯和布雷姆纳(2019)在未来设计学院的章程中建议，我们需要向世界学习，设计新的模式来生活和应对受损的地球(Haraway，2016)；特别是随着设计创新、生态和政治现在几乎是英国后气候变化经济复苏计划不可分割的组成部分(英国政府，2020)。几位作者概述了“为什么”我们需要转向以生命为中心的方法的理由，以及环境伦理在人类世时代的重要性(Morton，2010；Zylinska，2014；Anderson，2015；Jagodzinski，2019)。我们还通过许多气候变化宣言(First Things First，1964；2000&2014；IAM，2017；Do the Green Thing，2019；Music宣告紧急状态，2019)发现了创意产业对系统性变化发出惩戒声音的证据。然而，我们的前台研究发现，很少有范例能为设计主导的社区提供明确的路线图，以期将“高水平”战略转化为低水平的可操作措施，以实现英国的净零目标。这种智力调查的需要是迫切的，对英国具有战略重要性。为了解决这一未得到满足的需求，我们提议开发一个净零设计研究网络(N-ZDRN)。N-ZDRN将促进辩论和思想交流，以显著促进我们对支持设计教育、研究和实践向净零过渡所需的机会、障碍和实际行为变化和工具的集体理解。

The global coronavirus pandemic has and is forcing much of the worlds population to reshape their, thinking, their behaviours and to disrupt sectorial operating models in order to adjust to new normalities to paraphrase Cohen (2020). We have and are experiencing imposed mobility restrictions and social distancing measures that have resulted in: reducing road traffic and air travel, the development of asynchronous and synchronous learning, a renewal of civic capita, the rise of local e-commence services and self-sufficient local communities. In the age of the Anthropocene, National, Regional and Sub Regional governments, communities and the public at large have experienced at first-hand the collective actions we need to take to realise the UK's pledge to bring all greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050 (UK Government, 2019). Design is neither immune nor a neutral activity (Thackera, 2013). The Covid-19 pandemic has compelled the design sector to accept and confront its complicity and cognitive dissonance towards the climate emergency. Our reflective gaze has exposed the heaviness of Design's planetary load (across domains of research, education and practice) and an urgent need to escape the stare of the Medusa (Calvino, 1988).The gravitational pull to a life-centred design approach has a recent history, it is still small and dispersed, and yet, it too has not kept pace with the societal, institutional and business models that have vaulted five years forward as a direct consequence of the pandemic (McKinsey, 2020). Rodgers & Bremner (2019) suggest in their charter for the future design school, we need to learn from the world and to devise new models for living and making with a damaged planet (Haraway, 2016); especially as design innovation, ecology the economy and politics are now almost inseparable components of the UK's post-covid economic recovery plan (UK Government, 2020). Several authors have outlined the justification for 'why' we need a shift to a life-centred approach and the importance of environmental ethics in the age of the Anthropocene (Morton, 2010; Zylinska, 2014; Anderson, 2015; Jagodzinski, 2019). We have also found evidence of the creative industries disciplinary voice for systemic change through the many climate change manifestos produced (First Things First, 1964; 2000 & 2014; IAM, 2017; Do the Green Thing, 2019; Music Declare Emergency, 2019). However, our foreground research has found few of exemplars that provide a clear roadmap for 'how' design-led communities are expected to operationalise 'high-level' strategies into low-level actionable measures in order to meet UK net-zero targets.The need for this intellectual inquiry is urgent and of strategic importance to the UK. To address this unmet need, we are proposing the development of a Net-Zero Design Research Network (N-ZDRN). The N-ZDRN will stimulate debate and the exchange of ideas to significantly advance our collective understanding of the opportunities, barriers and practical behavior changes and tools needed to support the transition of design education, research and practice to net-zero.