Material Beliefs - Collaborations for Public Engagement Between Engineers and Designers

有必要沟通和民主化英国工程领域的最新创新，并借此机会挑战和激发公众对工程的看法。在生物珠宝等PPE项目中使用的非传统合作方法和Robert Doubleday关于纳米技术研究的社会学观点在本提案中得到了扩展，并被用于构建一个创造性和创新的过程，以向大量不同的受众展示工程研究中的技术和社会文化问题。这一建议响应了科学、政策、批判和传播学科联合起来的新兴文化，旨在挑战现有的个人防护装备模式。这一提议与以政策为中心的参与战略的区别在于，它旨在形成协作网络，在终端用户的想象世界中，将工程的细节和魅力带入生活。该提案的目的是通过驻地计划将经验丰富的研究工程师和设计师配对，从而引发一系列公共展览和参与活动。这些活动将围绕未来技术的作用开辟一个反思和关键的空间，工程师的研究可以以一种刺激的方式向公众展示。该提案寻求利用工程师/设计师合作伙伴关系的潜力，但它也寻求扩展富有想象力和挑战性的产出可以产生巨大影响的方式。预计这些产出将引起一系列论述的共鸣，并因此在包括印刷和电视媒体、学术期刊、会议和专业活动、在线论坛等在内的一系列渠道上进行适当和建设性的介绍。该提案旨在通过推动情感和可访问的格式，在学术专业和公众参与之间建立新的桥梁。

There is a need to communicate and democratise recent innovation in UK engineering, and with this an opportunity to challenge and invigorate the public's perception of engineering. Unconventional collaboration methods used in PPE projects like Biojewellery and Robert Doubleday's sociological perspective on nanotechnology research are extended in this proposal, and employed to frame a creative and innovative process for representing the technical and sociocultural issues which attend engineering research, to a large and diverse audience. This proposal responds to an emerging culture of joining up scientific, policy, critical and communication disciplines, and aims to challenge received PPE models. What distinguishes this proposal from the strategy of policy-focused engagement is that it aims to form collaborative networks which bring to life the detail and fascination of engineering in the imaginative worlds of an audience of end users.The aim of this proposal is to pair experienced research engineers and designers through a residency program, leading to a series of public exhibitions and engagement events. These events will open up a reflective and critical space around the role of future technology, where the engineers' research can be represented to the public in a stimulating wayThe proposal seeks to exploit the potential of engineer/designer partnerships, but it also seeks to extend the way imaginative and challenging outputs can have a large impact. It is anticipated that these outputs will be resonant for a range of discourses, and as a result be appropriated and constructively presented across a range of channels including print and TV media, academic journals, conferences and professional events, online forums, etc. The proposal aims to build new bridges between academic specialism and public engagement by pushing emotive and accessible formats.