Participation's "Others": A Cartography of Creative Listening Practices

参与的“他人”：一份创造性倾听实践的地图，询问如何扩展参与性研究，使其能够更好地“倾听”不属于传统人类个体主体范围的声音，如前世后代、非人类生活、极端偏向的思想、对象和技术。越来越多的人认识到，解决环境、社会和精神生活面临的日益严重的生态问题，需要挑战个人活着的人类主体作为政治和艺术机构的典范形式所占据的地位。应对这些全球挑战需要发明新的方式来倾听不同的声音。这个由早期职业研究人员领导的项目将建立一个国际专业网络，以增加多重和多样化的互联社区项目的价值，这些项目挑战关于参与性研究利益相关者的以人类为中心的假设。该项目将综合至少15个涉及这一主题的相关项目的成果，建立一个不同项目的多媒体地图，这些项目都有一个共同的问题，即如何让没有普通“发言权”的代理人参与参与性民主进程和共同研究成果，以及如何建立合法形式的权力机构来“代表”这些行为者进行翻译和发言。该项目将促进国际合作，围绕参与的“他人”建立新的方法、途径、案例研究、框架和文献。活动包括在英国和美国举办的研讨会、“慢思考”住宅静修，以及一个研讨会。在英国和美国，至少有六个社区合作伙伴和独立艺术家将积极参与项目活动和成果的设计。这些成果将包括一张互动的在线地图、一组论文和一个公共艺术项目，以及传统的学术成果，所有这些都旨在扩大互联社区研究的遗产。互动地图将绘制当前和以前的研究项目图表，这些项目发明了吸引参与者“其他人”参与的方法，并根据讲习班确定的多种参与性调查模式专门开发了搜索功能。这一在线资源将有助于指导、激发和激励当前和未来的跨学科团队在后人类背景下制定新的研究项目。将按照广受欢迎的《参与的问题：民主、权威和为共同生活而奋斗》的模式编辑关于该项目的简短、易懂的思考集，这本书是本研究小组作为早期互联社区项目的一部分出版的。公共艺术项目将由静修的艺术家领导，并将鼓励更广泛地参与到一起创作的方法中来。

Participation's "Others": A Cartography of Creative Listening Practices asks how participatory research might be extended to become better able to 'listen' to voices that do not fall within the boundaries of the traditional individual human subject, such as past and future generations, non-human life, radically decentred minds, and objects and technologies. There is a growing recognition that addressing the mounting ecological problems facing environmental, social and mental life requires challenging the place occupied by the individual living human subject as the paradigmatic form of political and artistic agency. Addressing these global challenges requires inventing new ways of listening to alternative voices. This early career researcher-led project will build an international network of expertise in order to add value to the multiple and varied Connected Communities projects that challenge anthropocentric assumptions about the stakeholders of participatory research. The project will synthesize results from at least 15 related projects that address this theme, building a multimedia cartography of diverse projects that share the problem of how to involve agents who do not possess an ordinary 'voice' in participatory democratic processes and research co-production, and how to establish legitimate forms of authority to translate and speak 'for' these actors. The project will facilitate international collaboration to build new methods, approaches, case studies, frameworks and literatures around participation's "others". Activities include workshops in the UK and USA, residential 'slow thinking' retreats, and a symposium. At least six community partners and independent artists, in the UK and USA, will take an active part in the design of the project activities and outputs. The outputs will include an interactive online map, a collection of essays, and a public art project, as well as conventional academic outputs, all aimed at extending the legacy of Connected Communities research. The interactive maps will chart current and previous research projects that invent methods for engaging participation's "others", with search functions specifically developed in line with the plurality of modes of participatory inquiry identified in the workshops. This online resource will help orient, provoke and inspire current and future trans-disciplinary teams in formulating new research projects in a post-human context. A collection of short, accessible reflections on the project will be edited along the model of the well-received "Problems of Participation: Democracy, Authority, and the Struggle for Common Life", which was published by this research team as part of an earlier Connected Communities project. The public art project will be led by the artists at the retreat and will stimulate broader engagement with the inventive methods drawn together.