Homing in: Sensing, sense-making and sustainable place-making (an arts and social sciences collaborative network)

我们认为，我们这个时代的主要社会问题需要相互关联的合作努力，以创造性和富有想象力的方式应对人类生态关系中的风险、不稳定、不确定性和快速变化。气候科学家继续警告危险的气候变化的影响。社会科学家和政策制定者寻求能够促进更好的科学--公共交流、更大的社区复原力和社会可持续性的替代战略。艺术家们越来越关注放弃审美自主的概念，转而寻求利用艺术品的想象力和情感潜力来促进对不同生态和环境未来的追求。我们将建立一个艺术、人文和社会科学相结合的跨学科协作网络，这将有助于开发具有创造性和想象力的研究战略和方法，以研究C21环境风险的经验和应对这些风险所需的变革性变化。该网络的实质重点将放在归宿过程上：即“在家”的空间和时间动态方式。我们希望研究归宿在促进为人们和社区提供生态知情感的关爱、依恋和安全叙事方面的可能作用，以及人们可以在不同的空间和时间尺度上将地点和身份联系在一起的行动使能联系的类型。我们相信，这将提供有洞察力的战略，为可持续发展实践和可持续地点创造开辟思路。对于学者和艺术家来说，归宿的过程往往涉及到身体和感官世界之间的边界的重新配置：因此，人们在日常生活中对周围环境--他们所在的地方--的具体化和想象力的关注得到了相当大的重视。在定性社会科学的解释传统中也发现了类似的焦点，其长期的记录是产生对日常生活的理解，这些理解来自对经验性感官知觉的活体调查，以及当人们近距离观察日常生活时人们在日常生活中创造意义的质感方式。然而，尽管艺术(尤其是戏剧和表演)最强调身体(感觉)，但解释性社会科学产生了可识别的知识，即人们如何在情景中建立有意义的情感联系，并将其嵌入当地文化、社区和更广泛的社会关系(意义创造)。我们需要更多地了解日常情感过程是如何跨越既定的时空界限的。我们的艺术-社会科学网络将以新的方式将我们不同的学科方法结合在一起，研究回家的过程，并以创造性的研究战略和方法为特色，探讨感知和意义制造。我们将重点关注这为生态思维提供的理解，因为它跨越了不同的时代和地点。我们将通过共同努力，批判性地欣赏彼此的作品，并在一年的时间里与当地艺术家、政策和其他利益相关者社区(包括创意艺术行业)建立伙伴关系，从而做到这一点。在此期间，我们将参与协作活动和事件。我们还将安排环境思想家和艺术家在加的夫哲学咖啡馆举办一系列关于他们工作的演讲(包括展示和讲述展示艺术表演的活动)。接近年底时，我们将举行一次世界咖啡馆风格的包容性会议，并制作一份可访问的报告，分发给我们的非高等教育合作伙伴。我们将通过讲座、简报会和访问我们的伙伴组织来宣传我们合作工作的成果。

We argue that the major societal problems of our time require interconnected, collaborative efforts to creatively and imaginatively address the risks, instabilities, uncertainties and rapid pace of change in human-ecological relationships. Climate scientists continue to warn of the effects of dangerous climate change. Social scientists and policy makers seek alternative strategies capable of promoting better science-public communications, greater community resilience and social sustainability. Increasingly artists are concerned to relinquish notions of aesthetic autonomy and instead seek to use the imaginative and affective potentiality of artworks to promote the quest for different ecological and environmental futures. We will set up a collaborative cross disciplinary network combining the arts and humanities with the social sciences that will be conducive to developing creative and imaginative research strategies and methods for studying experiences of environmental risks in the C21 and the transformative changes needed to respond to them. The substantive focus of the network will be on processes of homing: i.e. spatially and temporally dynamic ways of "being at home". We wish to investigate the possible role of homing in promoting the kinds of narratives of care, attachment and security that provide people and communities with a sense of ecological knowing, along with the kinds of action-enabling connections people can make linking place and identity together at different spatial and temporal scales. We believe that this will provide insightful strategies opening out ways of thinking about sustainability practice and sustainable place-making. For scholars and artists, processes of homing often involve a reconfiguration of the boundaries between the body and the sensory world: considerable importance is thus given to the embodied, imaginative attention people pay in their everyday lives to their surroundings - to the place they are in. A similar focus is found in interpretative traditions of qualitative social science with its long track record of producing understandings of everyday life that emerge out of in vivo investigations of empirical sensory perceptions and the textured ways in which people make meaning in everyday life when it is viewed close up. However, whereas the arts (in particular theatre and performance) place greatest emphasis on the body (sensing), interpretive social science produces recognisable knowledge of the practical ways in which people establish meaningful, affective connections in situated encounters and their embedding within local cultures, communities and wider social relationships (sense-making). We need to know more about how everyday affective processes that matter are capable of crossing over established space-time boundaries. Our arts-social science network will bring our different disciplinary approaches together in new ways to investigate processes of homing and feature creative research strategies and methods for inquiring into sensing and sense-making. We will focus on the understanding this affords for ecological thinking as it spans across different times and places. We will do this both by working together to critically appreciate one another's work and engage in partnership working with local artists, policy and other stakeholder communities (including the creative arts industry) over the course of one year. During this time we will participate in collaborative activities and events. We will also schedule a series of presentations by environmental thinkers and artists about their work at the Cardiff Philosophy Café (to include show and tell events to demonstrate arts performances). Towards the end of the year we will conduct an inclusive conference in World Café style and produce an accessible report for distribution to our non HE partners. We will disseminate outcomes of our collaborative working through talks, briefings and visits to our partner organisations.