Sustainable Transitions through Democratic Design

摘要：CoDesign 4 Transitions将培养10名跨学科的早期研究人员（ESR），他们将在共同设计、可持续性设计、服务和系统设计、民主创新和气候转型等领域进行交叉研究，以开发新的方法和经过验证的行动原型。这对于政府、企业和民间社会提供实现《巴黎协定》承诺的净零排放目标所需的多层次解决方案至关重要。设计是实现这一目标的核心，因为它能够通过原型设计进行实验，以减少失败的风险;将想法和证据综合成材料和视觉形式，让利益相关者参与共同创造;并促进创新变革。在有争议的可持续性转型中，设计提供了一个必要的连接组织，让公众参与民主创新，实现净零。CoDesign 4 Transition为ESRs提供了在跨学科、跨部门环境中为气候转型制定民主设计的重要新方法的可能性。这将为每位ESR提供独特的培训体验，他们将受益于来自学术和非学术部门的专家导师和导师。该网络由来自9个国家的6个主要高等教育受益者和13个准合作伙伴组成，他们将提供包括可转移技能在内的高级培训。10个非学术组织将举办借调，其中ESR将开发和测试过渡的设计方法，并严格评估如何建立设计能力。为期4年的研究和培训计划包括研究工作包调查原型，物化和可视化，并促进民主气候过渡中的实践系统变化;一对一培训和研究开发。两个横向工作包专门用于沟通、传播和开发以及项目管理，是这项工作的基础。

Abstract: CoDesign4Transitions will develop 10 trans-disciplinary Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) at the intersection of co-design, design for sustainability, service and systems design, democratic innovation and climate transitions equipped to develop new approaches and validated prototypes for action. This is urgent to enable governments, businesses and civil society to deliver multi-level solutions required to achieve net zero targets committed to in the Paris Agreement. Design is central to achieving this because of its capacities for enabling experimentation through prototyping to reduce the risk of failure; synthesising ideas and evidence into material and visual forms for engaging stakeholders in co-creation; and facilitating innovative change. In contested sustainability transitions, design provides a connective tissues essential to engaging publics in democratic innovation towards net zero. CoDesign4Transition offers ESRs the possibility to develop crucial new approaches to democratic design for climate transitions in a cross-disciplinary, inter-sectoral environment. This will provide a unique training experience for each ESR, who will benefit from access to expert supervisors and mentors from academic and non-academic sectors. The network comprises of 6 leading higher education beneficiaries and 13 Associate Partners from 9 countries, who will provide advanced training including transferable skills. 10 non-academic organisations will host secondments where ESRs will develop and test design approaches to transitions and critically assess how to build design capabilities. The 4 year research and training programme comprises research work-packages investigating prototyping , materialisation and visualisation, and facilitating practice-systems change in democratic climate transitions; one on one training and research development. Two horizontal work-packages devoted to communication, dissemination and exploitation and project management underpin the work.