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

该项目将探索诺福克谢林厄姆公园设计景观的环境历史，该公园自1987年以来一直是国家信托基金的财产。这项研究的目的是以国际和平研究所所长影响研究金的成果为基础，解决当前关于环境变化对恢复、管理和解释具有高度文化价值的公众可进入的设计景观的影响的辩论。这项研究将以主任影响研究金和国家信托基金之间已建立的工作伙伴关系的成果为基础，并与两个相关的RECN项目(“地方、全球进程”和“景观和野生动物的预期历史”)一起发展这些项目，在合作中，团队合作研究模式，更广泛地应用于环境变化的艺术和人文观点。它将研究设计的景观如何在不再有曾经维持它的经济和劳动力的情况下被保存和展示，并探索如何最好地将这一过去的景观的精神和物质性有效地传达给来访的公众。它将利用设计的主题性，汉弗莱·雷普顿1812年设计200周年，承担新的档案，图书馆和实地研究，将1812年设计的景观置于当时更广泛的物业管理的背景下，重新思考雷普顿1812年的设计，既提高其在谢林厄姆作为风景园林的主要范例的知名度，又将其置于该遗址更长、更广的环境历史中，并在更长的环境变化历史中：地方、地区、国家和全球。它将考察塑造原始设计过程的环境变化的价值观和叙事，它的符号和故事情节，比较谢林厄姆的雷普顿景观被解释和管理的方式，以及他在其他地方的地面工作的例子，并描述设计的景观如何被解释为居住、工作、移动和观看。该项目将利用对谢林厄姆历史的了解，参与制定国家信托基金关于保护、遗产和学习的政策和做法，特别是关于海岸线和林地的政策和做法。该项目将产生一系列相关成果：2012年7月在谢林厄姆公园举办的一次小型公开展览；在东安格利亚大学举行的一次学术会议，探讨恢复和解释设计的景观，以供公众理解；一篇关于谢林厄姆研究提出的实际和解释问题的学术文章；以及谢林厄姆公园周围的一条景观和环境步道，将谢林厄姆庄园的关键位置和观点与其环境和景观历史交织在一起。此外，研究材料将在配套网站上提供《生活的风景和特写》一章，并将为谢林厄姆公园国家信托目录的新版提供资料。参与协作的所有项目成员都将受益于这项研究及其所涉及的跨学科进程。由雇员和志愿者组成的国家信托团队也将受益于他们参与该项目，学习研究团队将雇用的景观历史研究方法和与游客打交道的方法。

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.