The programme of work will extent over two years and will be delivered through three work packages:
• WP1: Constructing storylines of medical trauma and infrastructure shocks
• WP2: Visioning models of socio-technical configurations of integrated infrastructure systems and critical interventions in real urban infrastructure cases
• WP3: Conducting experiments to evaluate our capacity to maximize learning from infrastructure shocks
WP1: Storylines of infrastructure shocks and trauma
Aim: To explore the allegory of medical trauma and examine critically how can inform the analysis of infrastructure shocks
Objectives:
• To construct the allegory of medical trauma;
• To develop infrastructure shock storylines and an analysis of current practices to deal with infrastructure shocks;
• To interrogate the allegory in the context of integrated infrastructure comparing it with infrastructure shock storylines.
Activities:
• To complete qualitative research among medical professionals and literature on learning through trauma to develop the medical allegory focusing specifically on what features of trauma free up thinking and critical evaluation of the system as a whole;
• To complete qualitative research among infrastructure experts to develop infrastructure storylines, including an improving understanding of current infrastructure practices to deal with shocks;
• To develop a comparative analysis testing the allegory of medical trauma in the context of infrastructure shocks.
• To use the allegory to develop alternative storylines of infrastructure shock.
WP2: Models of socio-technical configurations and intervention points
Aim: To test both the models of the socio-technical configuration of integrated infrastructure systems and the repertoire of system intervention points inspired by the trauma allegory in real-life case studies.
Objectives:
• To develop an analysis of the socio-technical configuration of existing infrastructure systems in selected case studies of infrastructure shock using systems innovation methodologies (e.g. Geels, 2002);
• To test these models in an ongoing dialogue with stakeholders
• To examine the feasibility of each element of the repertoire of system intervention points
Activities:
• To compile case studies of infrastructure shocks.
• To present the analytical tools developed in WP1 to stakeholders using these case-studies
• To enable stakeholders to critically examine our models of socio-technical configurations to infrastructure systems
• To facilitate a dialogue with stakeholders to examine the feasibility of the system intervention points proposed.
WP3: Framework to maximize learning from infrastructure shocks
Aim: To examine the process of learning from infrastructure shocks to examine how to maximize this learning.
Objectives:
• To use the analytical tools developed in WP1 and tested in WP2 to design three experiments with stakeholders to examine how to learn from infrastructure shocks
• To conduct these experiments
• To analyse the development and results of these three experiments and synthesise it in a series of principles to learn from infrastructure shocks
• To provide the basis for the development of a proposal about a shock laboratory to enable long-term learning about infrastructure shocks
Activities:
• To define the rationale for the experiments and design them to maximise learning from infrastructure shocks
• To conduct the experiments with stakeholders
• To analyse the experiments and provide principles for the development of a shock laboratory
• To ensure that stakeholders are engaged throughout the development of the whole project and that they receive appropriate feedback after every event