Accessing degrowth - Innovating design

Degrowth是一种社会想象和生态经济学理论，主张限制全球北方的物质吞吐量，以防止环境破坏和社会不公正（Kallis，2018）。该领域的研究人员认为，这些复杂的问题是由过度生产，消费和物质积累造成的（Hickel，2021）。然而，残疾理论和医疗保健研究的讨论目前在退化奖学金中缺失。我的硕士论文强调了这种缺失。通过文献综述和半结构化访谈，我发现了技术，医疗保健和公共基础设施中的退化和残疾理论之间的紧张关系;这为我的博士研究项目提供了概念，经验和方法框架。我的硕士研究还强调，退化提供了社会和环境方面的积极成果，残疾研究和退化之间的紧张关系可以通过Crip Technoscience Manifesto（Hamraie和Fritsch，2019）中概述的设计，技术科学和残疾研究的交叉来最小化。Hamraie和Fritsch平衡了技术科学对残疾人社区的重要性及其在军事工业综合体和采掘主义等压迫性系统中的地位。这种二分法集中在这个博士项目，以确保残疾人的经验和环境保护是平衡的，设计被用来颠覆目前在辅助技术和医疗保健中使用的身体/心理无效和社会生态破坏性的方法。辅助技术是指残疾人、老年人和慢性病患者使用的设备、服务和软件。辅助技术主要是由大公司中的非残疾人设计师创造的，他们很少将残疾人的专业知识和优先事项结合起来。基于我以前的研究，我将研究残疾人使用的特殊设计。Hamraie和Fritsch（2019）将这种即兴设计实践描述为“世界拆除和建造”，残疾人使用这种即兴设计实践来重新配置他们的环境，并为无法进入的空间，物体，社区和通信创建量身定制的解决方案。通过这一点，残疾人解决了一些辅助技术，公共空间和医疗保健的无效性。这项分析将通过对残疾研究的研究得到加强，例如非殖民地残疾研究（Puar 2017），并通过调查其他医疗模式，例如墨西哥萨帕塔主义者使用的自主医疗（利文斯顿和Capps，2010）。我将与残疾人一起工作，以非诊断方式招募，以确定公共基础设施，辅助技术和医疗保健的各种观点，同时审查参与者对个人特设设计实践的观察。访谈和研讨会将采用混合方法;结合相互依赖的残疾研究方法（Price和Kerschbaum，2016），批判性自我民族志（Tilley-Lubbs，G.A.2016）和共同设计（霍华德，J。例如，2022年）。我将使用扎根理论分析数据，举办共同设计研讨会，并与退化研究人员讨论研究结果。通过这些步骤，我打算确定辅助技术和医疗保健的设计，生产和传播可能是什么样子的残疾人在degrowth想象，为degrowth贡献重要的研究，优先考虑残疾人社区。在设计方面，它提供了以残疾人专业知识和社会生态责任为中心的创新视角。这项研究提出了社会和医疗支持的替代手段，可供残疾人、社区和决策者在健康、平等、技术和环境领域利用，以改善目前低于标准的框架。

Degrowth, a social imaginary and theory of ecological economics, argues for the limitation of material throughput in the Global North to prevent environmental devastation and social injustice (Kallis, 2018). Researchers in the field argue that these complex problems are created by excessive production, consumption and material accumulation (Hickel, 2021). However, discussions of disability theory and healthcare studies are currently missing from degrowth scholarship. My master's dissertation highlighted this absence. Through literature review and semi-structured interviews, I found tensions between degrowth and disability theory situated within technology, healthcare and public infrastructure; which provides the conceptual, empirical and methodological framework of my doctoral research project. My master's research also highlighted that degrowth offers socially and environmentally positive outcomes and that tensions between disability studies and degrowth may be minimised through intersections of design, technoscience and disability studies outlined in the Crip Technoscience Manifesto (Hamraie and Fritsch, 2019). Hamraie and Fritsch balance technoscience's importance for disabled communities and its situatedness in oppressive systems such as the military industrial complex and extractivism. This dichotomy is centred in this PhD project to ensure that disabled experiences and environmental protection are balanced, with design being used to subvert the physically/psychologically ineffective and socio-ecologically destructive approaches currently utilised within assistive technology and healthcare. Defined as the equipment, services and software used by disabled, elderly and chronically ill people, assistive technology is primarily created by non-disabled designers within large corporations that rarely integrate disabled expertise and priorities.Building upon my previous research, I will study ad-hoc design used by disabled people. Described by Hamraie and Fritsch (2019) as 'world-dismantling and building', this improvised design practice is used by disabled people to reconfigure their environment and create tailored solutions to inaccessible spaces, objects, communities and communications. Through this, disabled people address the ineffectiveness of some assistive technology, public spaces and healthcare. This analysis will be strengthened by research into disability studies, such as decolonial disability studies (Puar 2017) and through investigating other models of healthcare, such as autonomous healthcare used by the Zapatistas in Mexico (Livingston and Capps, 2010). I will work with disabled people, recruiting non-diagnostically, to ascertain varied perspectives on public infrastructure, assistive technology and healthcare, while reviewing participant observations of individual ad-hoc design practices. The interviews and workshops will engage a mixed-methodological approach; combining interdependent disability studies methodology (Price and Kerschbaum, 2016), critical autoethnography (Tilley-Lubbs, G.A, 2016) and co-design (Howard, J., et al., 2022). I will analyse data using grounded theory, run co-design workshops and discuss findings with degrowth researchers. I will also accumulate collected data on a website hosted by the UoE to ensure public access.Through these steps, I intend to ascertain what the design, production and dissemination of assistive technology and healthcare could look like for disabled people in the degrowth imaginary, contributing vital research to degrowth that prioritises disabled communities. For design it offers innovative perspectives centring disabled expertise and socio-ecological responsibility within assistive technology and healthcare. This research presents alternative means of social and medical support that can be utilised by disabled people, communities and policymakers in fields of health, equality, technology and the environment to improve upon current sub-par frameworks.