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Wednesday, May 15, 2024 to Saturday, May 18, 2024
5:00 pm – 5:00 pm
INFRAMES Knowledge Co-Production Workshop will be hosted by Appalachian State University
Appalachian State University is leading a project to increase meaningful engagement of interested parties in INFRAMES, with the goals of building and better understanding the social infrastructures needed to strengthen co-production and co-creation of knowledge to assess the sustainability of materials that our society produces at a global scale. To practically enable this goal, we will carry out a place-based engagement testbed centered around one of our core institutions, which is a remote rural PUI. The convening topic of our co-production testbed will focus on the interactions between surface waters and human decisions, targeting microplastics and nutrient cycling in waters. The questions we aim to answer include: (a) who are the relevant stakeholders? (b) how can we meaningfully engage and enable non-academic stakeholders (through, e.g. community engagement in citizen science, integration of the arts, and ongoing co-planning) to contribute to driving the research agenda through participatory co-creation?; and (c) how can we use the co-creation to effectively co-produce materials relevant for the research and educational community? This effort already start in 2023 as presented Knowledge Co-Production - Exploring interactions in High Country surface water & human decisions (youtube.com). The InFrames spring meeting in 2024 will highlight this initiative with a workshop.
https://rieee.appstate.edu/co-producing-knowledge-about-decisions-that-…
Preliminary agenda is the following:
Agenda Block | Content Sketch and Objectives |
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | |
Evening Social ~ 2 hrs | Social gathering of organizers and INFRAMES Network guests |
Thursday, May 16, 2024 | |
Opening Session ~ 15 mins | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
Morning 1 ~ 1.5 hrs | Panel to establish a shared understanding of the System - High Country Waters |
Break | |
Morning 2 ~ 1.5 hrs | Panel to establish a shared understanding of the Measurement of and Exposure to Microplastics and Nutrient Imbalances |
Lunch ~ 1 hr | Opportunity for creative alignment/keynote? |
Afternoon ~ 1.5 hrs | One panel to establish shared understanding of The Hazard - potential harms and implications of microplastics and nutrient imbalances in High Country Waters Synthesis activity or excursion |
Break ~ 3 hrs - activity or excursion, optional; organize shuttle to hotel | |
Dinner ~ 2 hrs | Deepen existing and make new connections; Opportunity for creative alignment |
Friday, May 17, 2024 | |
Morning Activities ~ 2.5 hrs | Synchronous tracks for cross-pollination activities |
Break ~ 30 mins transportation buffer | |
Morning Session ~ 1 hrs | Synthesis, reflection, and output prep |
Lunch ~ 1.5 hrs | Opportunity for creative alignment |
Afternoon ~ 1 hrs | Synchronous tracks for next steps such as proposal planning, writing groups, INFRAMES Coordinating Committee meeting, further ideation |
Afternoon Activities? | Excursions and field work aligned with workshop objectives |
Saturday, May 18, 2024 | |
Morning | Culminating community event aligned with workshop objectives |