Engineering Comes Home

工程学回家颠覆了基础设施设计。我们从家庭需求出发，着眼于设计基础设施，而不是相反。这一新模式允许在国内范围内对水、能源、食品和数据进行综合思考，并将家庭与技术、基础设施和社区联系起来，以尽可能高效和可靠地满足日常需求和需求。该项目将人及其日常需求和愿望放在首位，使用技术和基础设施在资源和环境限制的情况下最好地满足这些需求。它解决了设计可持续和有弹性的系统和技术以在环境和社会约束下提供基础设施服务的挑战。该项目将与伦敦社会住房居民案例研究社区合作，开发和测试一种从家庭规模开始并连接到社区、城市和地区规模的基础设施和技术的联合设计方法。这将涉及：1.综合与案例研究社区(人口普查、水和能源公司、环境署、地方当局、公共卫生)的关系有关的现有数据。开展社会研究，以确定与粮食、能源和水的生产和消费有关的需求、愿望和日常做法(访谈、日记、重点小组、参与性测绘、资源使用的传感器和监测)。开发潜在技术选择的设计支持工具包，以满足家庭需求及其生命周期、资源和环境影响。该工具包将包括目前市场上或正在出现的技术和系统，并将允许对新技术、系统和配置进行推测。与项目组、中小企业、技术专家和当地社区共同设计讲习班，以确定使用替代技术和基础设施满足需求的备选方案。向基础设施提供商、政策制定者、设计师和地方政府反馈关于新基础设施的选择以及新治理和其他安排的需求。基础设施发展和资源效率对国家具有重要意义，对英国经济未来的成功至关重要。该项目将在资源限制和社会期望的情况下开发基础设施设计的新方法。该项目在解决家庭内水、食物、能源、废物和数据之间的联系方面具有新颖性，作为如何设计满足这些需求的技术和基础设施的起点，同时实现资源效率和环境可持续性。该项目将为基础设施部门以及国内和邻里一级的系统创新提供新的机会。整合不同规模的基础设施服务是政策和工程方面的一项特殊挑战，将通过本项目中设计的方法加以解决。从国内需求和期望出发的新设计范例也将有助于提供社会可接受和当地社区所希望的基础设施。

Engineering Comes Home turns infrastructure design on its head. We start with household needs and look outward to design infrastructure, not the other way around. This new paradigm allows integrated thinking about water, energy, food and data at the domestic scale, and connects homes to technologies, infrastructures and communities in order to meet everyday needs and demands as efficiently and reliably as possible. The project puts people and their everyday needs and desires first, using technology and infrastructure to best meet those needs within resource and environmental constraints. It addresses the challenge of designing sustainable and resilient systems and technologies to deliver infrastructure services within environmental and social constraints.The project will develop and test a methodology for co-design of infrastructure and technologies starting from household scale and connecting to neighbourhood, city and regional scale, working with a case study community of social housing residents in London. This will involve:1. Synthesis of existing data relating to the nexus in case study community (census, water and energy companies, Environment Agency, local authorities, public health).2. Social research to identify needs, aspirations and daily practices that relate to food, energy and water production and consumption (interviews, diaries, focus groups, participatory mapping, sensors and monitors of resources use).3. Developing a design support toolkit of potential technical options for meeting household needs and their lifecycle resource and environmental impacts. The toolkit will include technologies and systems that are currently in the market or are emerging and will allow for speculation about new technologies, systems and configurations.4. Co-design workshops with the project team, SMEs, technical experts and local communities to identify options for meeting needs using alternative technologies and infrastructures.5. Feedback to infrastructure providers, policy makers, designers and local government regarding options for new infrastructure and needs for new governance and other arrangements. Infrastructure development and resource efficiency are of high national importance and are vital to the future success of the British economy. This project will develop new methods for infrastructure design within resource constraints and social expectations. The project is novel in addressing connections between water, food, energy, waste and data within the home as the starting point for how to design technology and infrastructure that meets these needs while achieving resource efficiency and environmental sustainability. This project will provide new opportunities for innovation across infrastructure sectors and in domestic and neighbourhood level systems. Integrating infrastructure services across different scales of provision is a particular challenge for policy and engineering, which will be addressed through the methods devised in this project. A new design paradigm starting from domestic needs and expectations will also help deliver infrastructure that is socially acceptable and desirable to local communities.