Abstract More and more questions are currently being raised as to what the farm equipment of the future ought to be and how it should be designed to best meet contemporary challenges in farming. In Western countries, innovation in agricultural equipment is focused on a dominant model in which the agro-industry designs and patents standardised equipment for farmers. However, today's ambitions for agriculture, with agroecology in the lead, require us to devise farming systems that are adaptable to social and ecological uncertainties, and to recognise and embrace the diversity of situations in which farming is practiced. There has until now been little research on equipment design processes consistent with these principles, and this research helps to fill this gap. To address this issue, we studied the French “Atelier Paysan” RD specific features of the design processes; and roles that Atelier Paysan takes on to enable the design of this equipment. Our results show that all the equipment designed was appropriate for the designers' situations and requirements, and adaptable to other situations. It emerged from design processes in which the farmers had the support of RD it makes available a set of resources to stimulate farmer-driven design of new equipment; and it brings together designers scattered all over France around a shared ambition for agriculture. This work opens up avenues for research: (i) to explore an alternative to the dominant design, which would rely on coupled innovation design processes and allow for the emergence of appropriate and adaptable equipment that complies with agroecological principles; and (ii) to explore ways of organising open-innovation processes for agroecology, by supporting farmer-designers, and thus rethinking the roles of ‘users’ in these processes.

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农业生态设备的设计：由农民设计师主导的耦合创新过程

摘要 目前，关于未来农业设备应该是什么以及它应该如何设计以最好地应对当前农业挑战的问题越来越多。在西方国家，农业设备的创新主要集中在一种主导模式上，即农业工业为农民设计标准化设备并获得专利。然而，当今以农业生态学为主导的农业雄心壮志要求我们设计适应社会和生态不确定性的农业系统，并承认和接受农业实践的多样性。迄今为止，关于符合这些原则的设备设计过程的研究很少，而这项研究有助于填补这一空白。为了解决这个问题，我们研究了法国“Atelier Paysan”RD设计流程的具体特点；以及 Atelier Paysan 在设计此设备时所扮演的角色。我们的结果表明，所有设计的设备都适合设计者的情况和要求，并能适应其他情况。它出现在农民得到 RD 支持的设计过程中，它提供了一套资源来刺激农民驱动的新设备设计；它将分散在法国各地的设计师聚集在一起，围绕着共同的农业抱负。这项工作开辟了研究途径：(i) 探索主导设计的替代方案，这将依赖于耦合创新设计过程，并允许出现符合农业生态原则的适当和适应性强的设备；