Creative Resilience through Community Imaginings

通过社区想象力实现创造力

• 批准号: AH/K003968/1
• 负责人: Ann Light
• 金额: $ 1.52万
• 依托单位: Northumbria University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK003968%2F1
• 关键词: Creative; Resilience; through; Community; Imaginings

How might practices that stress imagination and connection inspire transformational agency and build communities' resilience in the face of environmental challenges and opportunities? The question, which brings together nine researchers from academia and civil society organizations, is the basis of this development proposal to generate a full-scale set of methods and approaches with which to begin to find an answer. It addresses head-on intractable problems that environmental social scientists have been attempting to tackle and which don't readily have a scientific solution, but are inherently context-based and culturally specific. We research the production of a practical method of engagement, informed by theories of performance and aesthetics, to contribute to knowledge on dealing with environmental change in the social, cultural and economic realms. Evidence suggests that environmental crisis narratives, rather than spur people to take action, prompt feelings of anxiety, helplessness and disempowerment. Ultimately these narratives may serve to foster apathy and denial, discouraging people from considering alternatives or taking control. Behaviour change interventions, also aimed at encouraging environmentally-considerate behaviour, have tended to ignore concerns about status, ethical values and beliefs, identity, quality of life and fun, thereby stripping life of much that people value. This project addresses the need for a step-change in society's notion of everyday life (ie the small achievements and intuitions that provide our compass) to take account of a future with distinctly different environment, opportunities, and states of uncertainty. We will build a programme of work to address the scale and forms of change needed and to co-develop a change process that accounts for the factors that make life manageable and worth living. We take communities rather than individuals as our principal focus for inspiring creative resilience. The particular quality of this resilience is that it will withstand hardships and tensions arising out of the changes expected, but also respond ingeniously to solving the problems such change throws up. In this way, the proposal addresses not the changes needed, but the need for responsiveness to ongoing change and a strong sense that we are all future-making all of the time in all our actions.

强调想象力和联系的做法如何能够激发转型机构并建立社区面对环境挑战和机遇的复原力？这个问题汇集了来自学术界和民间社会组织的九名研究人员，是本发展建议的基础，目的是制定一套全面的方法和办法，以便开始寻找答案。它解决了环境社会科学家一直试图解决的棘手问题，这些问题并没有现成的科学解决方案，但本质上是基于背景和文化的。我们研究生产的参与，由性能和美学的理论通知，有助于知识处理在社会，文化和经济领域的环境变化的实用方法。有证据表明，环境危机的叙述，而不是刺激人们采取行动，促使焦虑，无助和丧失权力的感觉。最终，这些叙述可能会助长冷漠和否认，阻止人们考虑替代方案或控制。改变行为的干预措施也是为了鼓励顾及环境的行为，但往往忽视对地位、道德价值观和信仰、身份、生活质量和乐趣的关切，从而剥夺了人们所珍视的生活。这个项目解决了社会对日常生活的概念（即提供我们指南针的小成就和直觉）的逐步改变的需要，以考虑到未来与明显不同的环境，机会和不确定性。我们将制定一个工作方案，以解决所需变革的规模和形式，并共同制定一个变革进程，考虑到使生活易于管理和值得生活的因素。我们将社区而不是个人作为激发创造力的主要焦点。这种韧性的特殊品质是，它将承受预期变化所带来的困难和紧张，但也能巧妙地解决这种变化带来的问题。这样，该提案所涉及的不是所需的变革，而是需要对正在进行的变革作出反应，并强烈意识到我们所有人在所有行动中始终都在创造未来。