Bringing Landscape to Life: Environmental Histories at Sheringham Park 1812-2012

该项目将探索诺福克谢林汉姆公园设计景观的环境历史，该公园自 1987 年起就属于国家信托基金会。这项研究的目的是在 PI 主任影响力奖学金的成果基础上，解决当前关于环境变化对具有高文化价值的公共设计景观的恢复、管理和解释影响的争论。该研究将建立在主任影响力奖学金和国家信托基金之间已建立的工作伙伴关系成果的基础上，并通过两个相关的 RECN 项目（“当地地方，全球进程”和“景观和野生动物的预期历史”）开发这些项目，以更广泛应用的协作、团队合作研究模式，以部署环境变化的艺术和人文视角。它将研究当不再有曾经维持景观的经济和劳动力时，如何保护和展示设计好的景观，并探索如何它将利用该设计的时事性，即汉弗莱·雷普顿 (Humphry Repton) 于 1812 年设计的二百周年纪念，进行新的档案、图书馆和实地研究，将 1812 年设计的景观置于当时更广泛的房地产管理背景下，重新思考雷普顿 1812 年的设计，这既会提高其在谢林汉姆的形象，景观设计的一个主要例子，并将其置于场地更长、更广泛的环境历史中，以及更长的环境变化历史中：地方、区域、国家和全球。它将研究塑造原始设计过程的环境变化的价值观和叙述，它的符号和故事情节，将谢林汉姆的雷普顿景观的解释和管理方式与他在其他地方的工作实例进行比较，并描述设计的景观如何被解释为居住、工作、移动和观看。该项目将加深对谢林汉姆历史的了解，以参与国家信托基金在保护、遗产和学习方面的政策和实践的制定，特别是在海岸线和林地方面。该项目将产生一系列相关成果：2012年7月在谢林汉姆公园举办的小型公共展览、在东安格利亚大学举行的学术会议，探讨如何恢复和解释设计景观以供公众理解、一篇关于谢林汉姆研究中出现的实际和解释问题的学术文章，以及谢林汉姆公园周围的景观和环境步道，将谢林汉姆庄园的关键地点和景观与其环境和景观历史编织在一起。此外，研究材料将为《生活景观》一书的一个章节提供信息，并在配套网站上发表，并可用于新版谢林汉姆公园国家信托目录。参与合作的所有项目成员都将从研究及其所涉及的跨学科过程中受益。由员工和志愿者组成的国家信托团队也将受益于他们对项目的参与，学习进行景观历史的方法以及与研究团队将雇用的游客互动。

The project will explore environmental histories of the designed landscape of Sheringham Park in Norfolk, since 1987 the property of the National Trust. The aim of this research is to build upon the outcomes of the PI’s Director’s Impact Fellowship to address current debates about the implications of environmental change for the restoration, management and interpretation of publically accessible designed landscapes of high cultural value. The research will build on the outcomes of an established working partnership between the Director’s Impact Fellowship and the National Trust, and develop those with two related RECN projects(‘Local places, global processes’ and ‘Anticipatory histories of landscape and wildlife’), in a collaborative, teamwork research model of wider application for deploying arts and humanities perspectives on environmental change.It will examine how a designed landscape can be conserved and displayed when there is no longer the economy and labour which once sustained it and explore the ways in which the mentality as well as materiality of this past landscape can best be communicated effectively to the visiting public.It will take advantage of the topicality of the design, the bicentenary of its 1812 design by Humphry Repton, undertaking new archival, library and field research to situate the designed landscape of 1812 within a broader context of estate management of the time, to rethink Repton’s 1812 design in a way which will both raise its profile at Sheringham as a major example of landscape architecture and place it in a longer and wider environmental history of the site and within longer histories of environmental change: local, regional, national and global. It will examine the values and narratives of environmental change which shaped the original design process, its symbols and story lines, compare the way the Repton landscape at Sheringham is interpreted and managed to examples of his work on the ground elsewhere and describe how a designed landscape can interpreted as lived in, worked on and moved through as well as looked at. The project will deploy an understanding of Sheringham’s history to engage with the development of the National Trust’s policies and practices on conservation, heritage and learning, particularly in regard to coastline and woodlands. The project will produce a series of related outcomes: a small public exhibition at Sheringham Park in July 2012, an academic conference at the University of East Anglia exploring the restoration and interpretation of designed landscapes for public understanding, a scholarly article on the practical and interpretative issues arising from the research on Sheringham, and a landscape and environment trail around Sheringham Park weaving together key locations and views on the Sheringham estate with their environmental and landscape histories. Furthermore research materials will inform a chapter of the book Living Landscapes and feature on the companion website, as well as being made available for a new edition of the National Trust catalogue for Sheringham Park. All project members involved in the collaboration will benefit from the research and from the inter-disciplinary process involved in its undertaking. The National Trust team of employees and volunteers will also benefit from their involvement in the project, in learning from the methods of conducting landscape history and engaging with visitors that will be employed by the research team.