Mapping spatial practices and social distancing in smart schools: Sensory and digital ethnographic methods

这个为期18个月的跨学科项目跨教育、建筑和设计领域进行合作，以提高我们对学校建筑生活体验的理解。该项目将感官民族志方法与社会测绘方法相结合，追踪建筑中复杂的关系网络和空间实践。我们的目标是生成新的映射方法，更好地记录学校环境的感觉-情感维度。这些动态地图将提供教职员工和学生如何体验校舍的时间推移表示，揭示建筑环境中有问题的空间。这构成了一种尖端的方法论方法，将参与性的基于设计的研究方法与感觉民族志地图结合在一起。这种混合的民族志方法涉及到跟踪所涉及的关键参与者(工作人员、学生、游客、利益相关者)，同时也关注建筑环境本身的感官力量和影响。研究小组将收集感觉人种学数据，对有关建筑使用的语音/文字关切进行编码和关联，使用绘图软件收集数据，并创建空间实践和感觉环境的动态可视化，因为空间实践和感觉环境在9个月的时间内发生变化。与利物浦的三所中学合作，我们的迭代研究设计包括交替进行3个月的人种学研究周期和3个月的数据处理和地图制作周期，总共9个月。我们的方法直接让学校社区参与协作过程，共同绘制建筑内复杂的感觉-情感空间实践图。学校的年轻人将通过参与该项目来增加他们对智能建筑和被动传感器技术的了解。与学生和教职员工的研讨会将在头两个月开始，探索智能学校中感官民族志的参与式方法。人种学和地图绘制的循环将随之而来。共同设计的学校干预措施旨在解决地图绘制阶段的问题空间。研究团队将在18个月内与一个顾问小组会面5次，其中包括英国学校建筑、学习环境和数字设计方面的专家，以及学校的代表。我们正在与一家建筑公司合作，该公司因其学校建筑以及过去20年来他们对教育学习环境政策的国内和国际贡献而受到尊敬。参与的学校是由建筑公司建造的，该公司在整个项目中贡献了工时，以及学校建筑计划和蓝图，以及用于可视化居住者体验的其他规划文件。我们还与一家专注于创新可穿戴传感器技术和公民科学的设计公司合作，该公司拥有学校建筑干预方面的经验。该项目位于我们的学习和行为的生物社会、生态感觉和数字研究的流形实验室，在那里我们可以使用设备和研究基础设施(www.biosocialresearchLab.com)。学术和创意产出将包括：(A)一个项目网站，记录研究过程和成果，并有一个安全的博客，用于发布新闻和进展情况；(B)项目展览和利物浦公共网站的活动，如波罗的海三角放置的数字学院、使利物浦北码头仓库、曼彻斯特惠特沃斯青年当代人空间和曼彻斯特建筑学院，(C)学术出版物(3)，会议论文(3)，以及提交给当地教育机构的报告。研究结果还将与学习环境协会(ALE-UK)、英国国家数据档案馆和经济合作与发展组织的学习环境小组分享。

This 18 month interdisciplinary project collaborates across the fields of Education, Architecture, and Design to improve our understanding of the lived experience of school buildings. This project combines sensory ethnographic methods with social mapping methods, to trace complex networks of relationality and spatial practices in buildings. Our aim is to generate new mapping methods that better document the sensory-affective dimensions of school environments. These dynamic maps will offer time-lapse representations of how staff and students experience the school buildings, shedding light on problematic spaces in the built environment. This constitutes a cutting-edge methodological approach that assembles participatory methods of design-based research with sensory ethnographic mapping. This hybrid ethnographic method involves following the key actors involved (staff, students, visitors, stakeholders), while also attending to the sensory force and impact of the built environment itself. The research team will collect sensory ethnographic data, codify and correlate with voiced/texted concerns regarding building use, assemble the data using mapping software, and create dynamic visualizations of the spatial practices and sensory environment, as it mutates over a 9 month period of time. Working with three secondary schools in Liverpool, our iterative research design involves alternating between 3-month cycles of ethnographic study and 3-month cycles of data processing and map making, for a total of 9 months in the schools. Our methods directly involve school communities in collaborative processes of collectively mapping the complex sensory-affective spatial practices within their buildings. Young people at the schools will increase their understanding of smart architecture and passive sensor technology through their participation in the project. Workshops with students and staff will commence in the first 2 months, exploring participatory methods for sensory ethnography in smart schools. The cycles of ethnography and mapping will follow. Co-designed interventions in schools aim to address problematic spaces during mapping phases. The research team will meet with an advisory group 5 times over the 18 months, which includes experts in UK school architecture, learning environments, and digital design, as well as representatives from the schools.We are partnering with an architecture firm esteemed for their school architecture, and their national and international contributions, over the last two decades, to education learning environment policy. The participating schools were built by the architecture firm, which is contributing person-hours throughout the project, as well as school architectural plans and blueprints, and other planning documents used to visualize the occupant experience. We are also working with a design company that focuses on innovative wearable sensor technologies and citizen science, with experience in school building interventions. The project is situated in our Manifold Laboratory for Biosocial, Eco-sensory, and Digital Studies of Learning and Behaviour, where we have access to equipment and research infrastructure (www.biosocialresearchlab.com). Academic and creative outputs will include (a) a project website, documenting both research process and findings, with a secure blog for posting news and progress, (b) project exhibitions and events in Liverpool public-access sites, such as The Baltic Triangle PLACED digital academy, and Make Liverpool North Docks Warehouse, and the Manchester Whitworth Young Contemporaries space, and Manchester School of Architecture, (c) academic publications (3), conference papers (3), and a report to local education agencies. Findings will also be shared with the Association for Learning Environments (ALE-UK), the UK National Data Archive, and the learning environment group at the OECD.