Ecological Citizens: Tools, technologies and means to enable sustainable digital citizens

为了实现数字技术对社区生活、文化体验、未来社会和经济各方面的变革性影响，RCA建议主办一个专注于数字干预的DE Network+，以创造向可持续的后工业社会转变的条件--在那里，“产品”就是体验，体验促进人类福祉和个人韧性，其中数字干预是可持续的，并促进社会韧性。为了实现一个可持续的社会，公民需要机构来控制他们对自然环境的影响。因此，一个生态公民(EC)网络+可持续的数字社会将使用数字技术来：将物质资源的使用与经济发展脱钩；通过体验和服务为产品增值；给公民机构来照顾他们的环境(与废物减少和再利用、能源产生有关)；给公民机构来设计他们自己的与产品有关的体验，这些产品促进福祉、学习、自我进步；使体验赋予公民做、做、修理、学习、创造、连接、交流、互动、理解、分享和享受的能力。该网络+预见了技术干预的下一步行动是创造和实施“变革的条件”，即创造经验和互动，以及使社会和社区能够实现可持续过渡的数字化联网的社会行为者。为了实现这一愿景，这项提议侧重于一个“分布式一切”的模式--知识和专门技术、设计、材料流动、制造和黑客攻击、能源生产--因为实现可持续发展所需的根本社会变革需要重新审视知识是如何产生和使用的。共同研究成果是提高实现可持续发展所需的基本社会变革所需知识的关键机制[1]，也是EC Network+方法的核心。我们将与领先的合作伙伴一起，在社区内建立一个真正可持续的“数字社会”，通过大使确保遗产，并为未来的跨学科研究团队设定议程。EC Network+将提供一个脚手架，在各种规模(村庄、城镇、城市)催生关于可持续发展的新项目。这种跨学科的协作方法对于应对我们前所未有的环境挑战至关重要。该网络将通过各种活动建立，包括启动抽水、协作派驻、学习网络研讨会、战略圆桌会议、媒体和通信、报告、播客和微型筹资计划。该学术联盟涵盖计算机科学、可持续发展工程、以人为本的设计和公民科学等核心领域。在皇家艺术学院(RCA)的领导下，这项建议建立在菲利普斯博士的My NatureWatch基础上，这是一个DIY野生动物相机项目，吸引了300多万人与英国的野生动物接触，RCA材料科学中心(Baurley教授)的循环经济工作，Wrexham Glyndwr大学艺术、科学和技术学院(Shepley教授)的可持续工程和物理计算专业知识，以及约克大学斯德哥尔摩环境研究所(Dr West)在公民科学和政策方面的专业知识。

To realise the transformational impact of digital technologies on aspects of community life, cultural experiences, future society, and the economy, the RCA proposes to host a DE Network+ focused on digital interventions that would create 'the conditions to make change' towards a sustainable post-industrial society - where the 'product' is the experience, where experiences promote human wellbeing and personal resilience, where the digital interventions are sustainable and promote societal resilience. To achieve a sustainable society, citizens require agency to control the impact they have on the natural environment. Therefore, an Ecological Citizens (EC) Network+ sustainable digital society would use digital technology to: Decouple the use of materials resources from economic development; add value to products through experiences and services; give citizens agency to take care of their environment (relating to waste reduction and reuse, energy generation); give citizens agency to design their own experiences involving products, which promote wellbeing, learning, self-advancement; enable experiences that empower citizens to do, to make, to repair, to learn, to create, to connect, to communicate, to interact, to understand, to share, to enjoy. This Network+ foresees the next move in technological interventions is in creating and implementing "the conditions to make change", i.e. the experiences and interactions, and digitally networked societal actors that enable sustainable transitions for societies and communities. To enact this vision, this proposal focuses on a model of 'distributed everything' - knowledge and know-how, design, materials flows, fabrication and hacking, energy generation - as the fundamental societal transformations that are needed to achieve sustainability require a re-examination of how knowledge is produced and used. Co-production of research is a key mechanism for improving the knowledge required for the fundamental societal transformations needed to achieve sustainability [1], and is central to the approach of the EC Network+.With leading partners, we will inform a truly sustainable 'digital society', built within communities, ensuring legacies through ambassadors, and setting agendas for future transdisciplinary research teams. The EC Network+ will provide a scaffolding to spawn new projects about sustainability at a range of scales (Village, Town, City). This collaborative trans-disciplinary approach is essential for tackling our unprecedented environmental challenges. The network will be built through activities including pump priming, collaborative residentials, learning webinars, strategic roundtables, media and communications, reports, podcasts, and a micro funding scheme. The academic consortium covers the core areas of computer science, sustainable engineering, human-centred design and citizen science. Led by the Royal College of Art (RCA), this proposal builds on Dr Phillips' My Naturewatch, a DIY wildlife camera project that engaged 3 million+ people with UK based wildlife, the circular economy work of the RCA's Materials Science Centre (Prof Baurley), the sustainable engineering and physical computing expertise of the Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology at Wrexham Glyndwr University (Prof Shepley), and expertise in citizen science and policy of the Stockholm Environment Institute at The University of York (Dr West).