Temporal Ecologies: Supporting wider awareness of, and engagement with, phenology using design and environmental humanities approaches

该项目将对环境人文科学(EH)和设计做出创新性的研究贡献，首先通过创建一个被忽视的领域的新的跨学科桥梁。它还将讨论如何调整到被主导的计时取向所掩盖的时间周期，并探索如何以本地化的方式表达和体验西方社会的季节性和气候变化经验。该项目将使用时态设计方法(Pschetz，Bastian，2016；Pschetz，Bastian 2018)，并利用设计调查、探测、游戏、数据可视化等方法，以符合学生的兴趣和经验。它将进一步被设计信息学方法和EH方法所启发，如关键植物研究和多物种研究。学生将参与EH关于生态时间的研究，以及公众和志愿者长期参与的互动设计方法，从RBGE和WTNC获得的数据集，以及他们目前使用记录器的策略。作为研究的一部分，他们还可能获得物候记录的实际经验。该项目的关键问题包括：设计方法如何支持重新招聘和留住物候记录员的努力？设计过程、对象或干预措施如何使用可用的物候数据集和研究作为理解不断变化的生态计时的更广泛的提示？公民科学家保存长期物候记录的经验如何为EH和支持当地环境意识的设计研究提供新的角度？我们与RBGE、WTNC和JNCC合作，预计这些和相关问题将通过以下方式得到解决：(A)物候记录器的价值和实践的定性研究；(B)参与物候数据以创建引人入胜的设计干预；(C)共同开发和迭代一系列设计原型以支持更广泛的参与；以及(D)原型的部署和评估。这些都是指示性的方法。成功的申请者将被期望根据他们的研究问题和技能来调整方法。

This project will make innovative research contributions to both Environmental Humanities (EH) and Design, firstly by creating a new interdisciplinary bridge with an overlooked field. It will also speak to questions of tuning into temporal cycles that are obscured by dominant orientations to clock time, and explore how experiences of seasonality and climate change in Western societies can be articulated and experienced in localised ways. Insights will also be generated around designing with data for sustainability.The project will utilise the temporal design approach (Pschetz, Bastian, Speed 2016; Pschetz, Bastian 2018) and draw on methods such as design surveys, probes, games, data visualisation and others as fitting the student's interests and experiences. It will be further informed by the Design Informatics approach to designing with data and EH approaches such as critical plant studies and multispecies studies. The student will engage with EH research on ecological time, with interaction design approaches to public and volunteer engagement over the longer term, data sets available from the RBGE and WTNC, and their current strategies for working with recorders. As part of their research they may also gain practical experience in phenology recording.Key questions for the project include: How can design methods support renewed efforts to recruit and retain phenology recorders? How can design processes, objects or interventions use available phenological datasets and research to serve as wider prompts for understanding changing ecological timings? How might citizen scientists' experience of keeping long-term phenological records provide new angles on EH and Design research on supporting awareness of local environments?Working with the RBGE, WTNC and JNCC, we anticipate that these and related questions will be addressed through (a) a qualitative study of phenology recorders' values and practices, (b) engagement with phenology data to create engaging design interventions, (c) the co-development and iteration of a range of design prototypes to support wider participation, and (d) deployment and evaluation of prototypes in context. These are indicative methods. The successful applicant will be expected to tailor the methodology to their research questions and skillset.