Inbetween: Cultural regeneration in market towns

其间：集镇的文化复兴

• 批准号: AH/I022414/1
• 负责人: David Butler
• 金额: $ 4.54万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI022414%2F1
• 关键词: Inbetween; Cultural; regeneration; market; towns

This network will bring together an international, interdisciplinary body of researchers to critically consider the interaction of visual arts practice, policy and cultural infrastructure in the regeneration of market towns. It is innovative in tackling core research questions through practice-led research and interdisciplinary symposia. Events will be sited in England, Scotland and Wales to examine the impact of devolved governance and cultural infrastructures. As market towns struggle in the current economic climate, this project is timely in pursuing the feasibility of alternative strategies to enable market towns to secure a sustainable future. In so doing, it aspires to the aims of the AHRC's Connected Communities programme.Research ContextThe Labour Government launched its Market Towns Initiative in 2001 to address the problems posed by demographic shifts and changes in retail habits, work/life balance and general mobility. In response, several regional networks were launched throughout the UK and the umbrella body 'Action for Market Towns' formed (www.towns.org.uk). Recent research has developed a definition of variously termed market, small or rural towns as having between 1500 and 40,000 inhabitants. This places such towns as 'in-between' places and they have been largely neglected in studies especially related to cultural activity. Often market towns have contradictory fortunes: they are desirable place to live but become commuter towns with inhabitants who commute to their workplace and to larger retail centres. This leaves the town centre vulnerable and the town's cultural identity challenged. The Department of Environment, Transport and Regions see market towns as having considerable policy relevance as a rural hub for economic development and regeneration. Almost a decade after the launch of the Market Towns Initiative, the role that of visual arts practice in this context remains inadequately explored.In order to tackle this gap in knowledge the network will innovatively bring together practice-based and theoretical researchers from a range of disciplines including: arts practice, architecture and planning, heritage, cultural and economic regeneration, cultural policy and arts administration. In recent years, vacated shops and shop fronts have become emblematic of the problems faced by market towns but also a prime site of artistic intervention. Keeping in vein with this, the proposed networking events will address research questions through artistic practice in public locations, such as market squares and shop fronts, as well as workshops.Aims and ObjectivesThe aim of this network is to develop new understanding and critical analysis of the role that visual arts have played and might play in the regeneration of market towns with a view to influencing policy and informing best practice.It will do so by:- Networking a multi-disciplinary body of artists, theorists, professionals and policy makers engaged in market town studies and cognate fields, such as planning, heritage and regeneration. Disseminating results back to key research groups and networks (e.g. Action for Market Towns).- Developing a knowledge base of practice (best and worst; perceived successful and unsuccessful drawn from case studies and their evaluations) - Facilitating knowledge transfer between participants- Generating critical dialogue through artistic practice, symposia discussions and on-line debate- Creating artworks in the public domain as catalysts for discussion, engaging the public in wider debateThe network will develop a new knowledge base on cultural regeneration in market towns and facilitate knowledge transfer between artists, regeneration professionals, community organisations and policy makers.

该网络将汇集一个国际、跨学科的研究人员机构，以批判性地考虑视觉艺术实践、政策和文化基础设施在集镇复兴中的相互作用。它在通过实践指导的研究和跨学科研讨会解决核心研究问题方面具有创新性。活动将在英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士举行，以考察权力下放和文化基础设施的影响。随着集镇在当前的经济环境中苦苦挣扎，该项目适时地探索替代战略的可行性，使集镇能够确保可持续的未来。通过这样做，它渴望实现AHRC的互联社区方案的目标。研究背景工党政府于2001年发起了集镇倡议，以解决人口结构变化和零售习惯、工作/生活平衡和一般流动性变化带来的问题。作为回应，在英国各地启动了几个地区性网络，并成立了伞形机构“集镇行动”(www.Towns.org.uk)。最近的研究为拥有1500到40,000居民的集市、小城镇或乡村城镇下了一个不同的定义。这将这样的城镇定位为介于两者之间的地方，在很大程度上被研究忽视，特别是与文化活动有关的研究。集镇的命运往往相互矛盾：它们是理想的居住地，但却变成了通勤城镇，居民通勤往返于工作场所和更大的零售中心。这使得小镇中心变得脆弱，小镇的文化身份受到挑战。环境、交通和地区事务部认为，集镇作为农村经济发展和复兴的枢纽，具有相当大的政策相关性。在集镇倡议发起近十年后，视觉艺术实践在这方面的作用仍然没有得到充分的开发。为了解决这一知识差距，该网络将创新性地将来自艺术实践、建筑和规划、遗产、文化和经济复兴、文化政策和艺术管理等一系列学科的实践和理论研究人员聚集在一起。近年来，空置的商店和店面已经成为集镇面临的问题的象征，但也是艺术干预的主要场所。为配合这一点，拟议的联网活动将通过在公共场所，如市场广场和商店门面以及工作场所的艺术实践来解决研究问题。目的和目标这个网络的目的是对视觉艺术在集镇重建中所扮演的角色和可能发挥的作用进行新的理解和批判性分析，以期影响政策和提供最佳实践。它将通过以下方式实现：-将从事集镇研究和相关领域(如规划、文物和重建)的艺术家、理论家、专业人士和政策制定者建立网络。将结果传播回主要研究小组和网络(例如，集镇行动)。-建立一个实践知识库(最佳和最差；从案例研究及其评估中获知的成功和不成功)-促进参与者之间的知识转移-通过艺术实践、座谈会讨论和在线辩论产生批判性对话-在公共领域创作艺术品作为讨论的催化剂，让公众参与更广泛的债务网络将建立一个关于集镇文化复兴的新知识库，并促进艺术家、再生专业人员、社区组织和政策制定者之间的知识转移。