Learning to Live with Water: Flood histories, Environmental Change, Remembrance and Resilience

洪水和“与环境变化共存”的问题是研究和政治议程上的重中之重--在皮特对2007年洪水的回顾之后，社区主导的适应规划是英国洪水风险管理战略的关键要素。这需要社区从过去的洪水中吸取教训，对自己的洪水历史有强烈的认识和风险意识，并知道如何与洪水共存。虽然已经进行了大量的研究工作，以确定环境和社会科学能为理解洪水历史和环境变化带来什么，但关于艺术和人文研究能给洪水历史、潮湿地貌及其环境变化的研究带来什么的研究很少。因此，这一研究网络旨在通过一个具有国际意义的跨学科和跨专业的优秀网络，建立关于水淹景观及其环境变化的独特、创新和引人入胜的艺术和人文研究视角。分目标涉及以下方面：研究湿地景观的理论和概念基础；研究不同创造性做法在实现有关洪灾历史的非正式知识方面的变化和潜在作用；以及将这项研究应用于社会学习的新背景下，并在洪灾风险不断变化的情况下建立社区复原力。这一网络将通过一项综合活动方案得到加强和维持。核心活动将是三个研讨会，从“正式”到“非正式”，并最终形成一场创新的洪水历史会议：“洪水与未来：学会生活”，将定位新的研究探索与表演和创意艺术相结合。在整个联网研究计划中，该项目还将通过网络博客与更广泛的国内和国际艺术和人文研究人员进行探索。网络讨论从一个研讨会开始，该研讨会探讨了洪水历史和环境变化：水景观和与洪水共存的理论和概念框架。这是为了将文化地理、历史和遗产方面的艺术和人文研究人员与其他学科的研究人员聚集在一起，探索对潮湿和间歇性洪水景观的理解。第二期讲习班侧重于对洪水遗产的理解，并将洪水档案作为探索恢复能力的已知途径的资源。第三期研讨会讨论关于洪水的洪水故事/叙述，以及这些故事如何能够带来关于社会学习和应对洪水的复原力的新理解。AHRC网络的最后一次活动将是一场活生生的洪水历史会议：‘学会生存：洪水与未来’。这将侧重于制定从前三个讲习班演变而来的关键研究主题。预计这些活动将围绕对可持续湿地景观的探索展开：研究洪灾历史和环境变化的理论/概念基础；研究艺术和人文学科中的环境变化；研究不断变化的洪灾记忆、档案和助记做法的体验、记忆、具体化、形式化和增强的方式；研究洪灾记忆--在社区中发展抗洪能力的社会学习；研究洪灾和多样性--可持续社区、代际交流和文化多样性；研究洪灾与创造力：探索个人和社区管理洪灾和洪灾风险的创造性战略；研究洪灾与连通性：探索洪灾风险社区之间的地方与全球联系。研究成果包括推出了一个学习生存：洪水和未来网络的网站；编辑了一卷跨学科的研究论文和一系列表演/文物，将在洪水风险社区层叠进行。

Floods and issues of 'living with environmental change' are high on research and political agendas - with community lead adaptation planning being a key element in UK flood risk management strategies after Pitt's Review of the 2007 floods.This requires communities who learn from past floods, have a strong sense of their flood histories and an awareness of risk, and know how to live with flooding. While there has been considerable research endeavour to establish what environmental and social sciences can bring to understanding flood histories and environmental change, there has been little research on what arts and humanities research can bring to research on flood histories, wet landscapes and their environmental change. This research network therefore aims to establish distinctive, innovative and engaging arts and humanities research perspectives on watery and flooded landscapes and their environmental change through an excellent interdisciplinary and inter-professional network of international significance. The sub-aims involve a focus on the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings to research on wet landscapes, on researching the changing and potential role of different creative practices in materialising informal knowledge about flood histories, and on applying this research in new contexts of social learning and building community resilience in scenarios of changing flood risk. This network will be fuelled and sustained through an integrated programme of activities. The core activity will be three seminars that build from the 'formal' to 'informal' and culminate in an innovative Living Flood History Conference: 'Floods and Futures: Learning to live' that combines positioning new research explorations with performance and creative arts. Throughout the networking research programme, the project will also engage in explorations with the wider national and international community of researchers in the Arts and Humanities, through a weblog. Network discussions start with a seminar exploring Flood histories and environmental change: theoretical and conceptual frameworks for watery landscapes and living with floods. This is designed to bring arts and humanities researchers in cultural geography, history and heritage together with those in other disciplines to explore understandings of wet and episodically flooded landscapes. The second workshop focuses on understandings of flood heritage and examines flood archives as a resource for exploring known pathways to resilience. The third workshop considers flood stories/narratives around flooding and how these can bring new understandings around social learning and resilience to flooding. The final AHRC network event will be a Living Flood Histories Conference: 'Learning to live: Floods and Futures'. This will focus on developing key research themes that have evolved from the first three workshops. It is anticipated that these will revolve around research explorations of sustainable wet landscapes: theoretical/conceptual underpinnings for research on flood histories and environmental change in the Arts and Humanities; researching changing ways in which floods memories, archives and mnemonic practices are experienced, remembered, materialised, formalised and enhanced; researching flood memory - developing social learning in communities for flood resilience; researching flooding and diversity - sustainable communities, intergenerational communication; and cultural diversity; researching flooding and creativity: exploring the creative strategies of individuals and communities for managing flooding and flood risk; and researching floods and connectivity: exploring the local to global connections between flood-risk communities. Research outputs include the launch of a Learning to Live: Floods and Futures network, a website; an edited interdisciplinary volume of research papers and a series of performances/artefacts that will be cascaded in flood risk communities.