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Cinematic Geographies of Battersea: Urban Interface & Site-Specific Spatial Knowledge

巴特西的电影地理：城市界面

基本信息

批准号：
AH/I022252/1
负责人：
Francois Penz
金额：
$ 20.02万
依托单位：
University of Cambridge
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI022252%2F1
关键词：
Cinematic Geographies Battersea Urban Interface

项目摘要

CINEMATIC GEOGRAPHIES aims to harness the unique mechanism by which cinema and the moving image contribute to our understanding of cities by investigating the convergence of two different yet complementary ways of understanding the built environment: on the one hand, the historical approach developed by The Survey of London (English Heritage) and on the other, the cinematic interpretation of cities developed in the departments of architecture at the universities of Cambridge and Liverpool. Using Battersea as a case study, our aim is to contribute to a greater level of understanding and engagement with the built environment by enriching the Survey of London with a set of newly created digital resources made available in situ by means of locative mobile devices.The Survey of London (SoL), referred to by English Heritage (EH) as 'the closest thing to an official history of London', provides a rigorous and systematic examination of each parish, whose topographical and architectural history - a description of its buildings - is what we would describe as the 'hard' city. Cinema, by contrast, provides the 'soft' side of the city as coined by Raban (1974): 'The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture'.Battersea, a landscape currently undergoing considerable changes, has been chosen by EH for a forthcoming volume of the SoL. Complementing EH's enormous effort to record and probe the architectural history of Battersea, we are planning to investigate the 'soft side' of Battersea through a process entitled 'cinematic urban archaeology'. This innovative technique makes visible the emergence of the modern city and its subsequent transformations since the year 1895 - the birth of cinema. Such retrospectively longitudinal cinematic studies of cities are now possible due to the increasing availability of archive material - fiction films, documentaries, newsreels, but also amateur films which are a particular focus of our study. Films have a remarkable capacity to resurrect a city's topography, which- together with its social and cultural context - is all too often folded away in maps of the past. Our initial investigations have revealed that Battersea is particularly 'moving-image rich', a fact that we want to enhance and make known through the creation of a novel and sustainable film database for the city.At a time when in the words of Paul Virilio (1987) the screen 'became the city square, the crossroads of all mass media', so-called smart mobile phones play an important role in enhancing our experience of place, by bringing a perception of the 'here and now', one's presence in time and space, together with an aesthetic of representation. In the second phase of our project, by means of these ubiquitous smart phones, we are therefore aiming to make visible and accessible our new resource for Battersea, while also delivering the basis for a critical examination of its changing landscape. Locative media hold the potential to crack open the gap between everydayness and imagination. We argue that an intelligent use of locative media has the ability to reveal hidden 'lieux de memoire' [sites of memories]. In doing so, a new city topography can emerge where past memories, connected with individuals or communities, will make the 'invisible visible'.Mindful of a careful balance between 'technology push' and 'content pull', we aim to offer an inspiring model for a coherent location-based digitally augmented experience and develop a methodology robust enough to be replicated in other cities in the future. It will be tested and demonstrated at the Wandsworth Heritage Festival in June 2012 and showcased in the London Cultural Olympiads later that summer.

CINEMATIC GEOGRAPHIES旨在利用电影和运动图像的独特机制，通过调查两种不同但互补的理解建筑环境的方式来帮助我们理解城市：一方面，《伦敦概览》发展的历史方法另一方面，剑桥和利物浦大学建筑系对城市的电影诠释。以巴特西为例，我们的目标是通过丰富伦敦的调查与一组新创建的数字资源，通过定位移动的设备在现场提供，以促进对建筑环境的更高水平的理解和参与。伦敦的调查（SOL），被英国遗产（EH）称为“最接近伦敦官方历史的东西”，提供了一个严格和系统的检查每个教区，其地形和建筑历史-一个描述其建筑物-是什么，我们会形容为'硬'的城市。与此相反，电影提供了城市的“软”的一面，正如Raban（1974）所创造的那样：“那么，我们想象中的城市，幻想、神话、抱负和噩梦的软城市，与人们在统计学、城市社会学、人口学和建筑学专著中的地图上找到的硬城市一样真实的，也许更真实的”。巴特西，一个目前正在发生巨大变化的景观，已被EH选择用于即将出版的SoL卷。为了补充EH记录和探索巴特西建筑历史的巨大努力，我们计划通过一个名为“电影城市考古学”的过程来调查巴特西的“软面”。这种创新的技术使现代城市的出现及其自1895年电影诞生以来的后续转变变得清晰可见。这种回顾性的城市纵向电影研究现在是可能的，因为越来越多的档案材料的可用性-小说电影，纪录片，新闻片，但也业余电影，这是我们的研究的一个特别重点。电影有着非凡的能力来复活一座城市的地形，而城市的地形以及它的社会和文化背景往往被折叠在过去的地图中。我们的初步调查显示，巴特西是特别“移动图像丰富”，这一事实，我们希望通过创建一个新颖的和可持续的电影数据库为城市增强和众所周知的.在一个时间，在保罗Virilio（1987）的话屏幕“成为城市广场，所有大众媒体的十字路口”，所谓的智能移动的电话通过带来“此时此地”的感知、一个人在时间和空间中的存在以及美学的再现，在增强我们的地点体验方面发挥着重要作用。在我们项目的第二阶段，通过这些无处不在的智能手机，我们的目标是使我们的新资源可见和可访问的巴特西，同时也提供了一个关键的审查其不断变化的景观的基础。定位媒体有可能打破日常生活和想象之间的差距。我们认为，一个聪明的使用方位媒体有能力揭示隐藏的“lieux de memoire”（记忆的网站）。在这样做的过程中，一个新的城市地形可能会出现，过去的记忆，与个人或社区连接，将使“无形可见”。考虑到“技术推动”和“内容拉动”之间的谨慎平衡，我们的目标是提供一个鼓舞人心的模型，为一个连贯的基于位置的数字增强体验，并开发一个足够强大的方法，以复制在其他城市的未来。它将在2012年6月的旺兹沃斯遗产节上进行测试和展示，并在当年夏天晚些时候的伦敦文化奥林匹克运动会上展出。