The Social World of Nottingham's Historic Green Spaces: follow-on project

尽管1760年至1840年间人口大幅增长，但诺丁汉仍被公共土地所包围，其权利由一群坚定的市民坚决维护。经过多次运动，1845年通过了《圈地法》，允许在以前开放的土地上开发住房，以缓解该镇严重的过度拥挤和不卫生的生活条件。重要的是，该法案确保留出130英亩作为公共开放空间，旨在改善城镇居民，特别是工人阶级的健康和行为。在20世纪下半叶，这个原本是中产阶级的地区变成了一个工人阶级的地区，有大量的移民和学生社区，许多多人居住的房产和不同类型的社会需求。然而，开放空间继续履行其最初的目的，尽管用途已经改变。共同制作的社区项目，诺丁汉历史绿色空间的社会世界，调查了导致空间创建的影响，它们的变化使用和误用，战争的影响，种植计划的演变，以及关于20世纪现代化和再开发的冲突和辩论。该项目将不同兴趣的社区团体和利益相关者聚集在一起，反映了其对诺丁汉公园历史共同创造、共同管理和共享社区用途的强调。该项目的研究成果通过两个展示活动分享，其中78%的观众是非学术人士，主要来自当地的历史和遗产团体。这些都是基于共同研究的文章，其中一些是共同撰写的，发表在当地的历史期刊上。这个后续项目将使用创新的、受欢迎的和容易获得的活动，与更广泛的受众参与和分享研究，而不是在最初的项目中。核心将是一个社区戏剧，由经验丰富的社区剧作家安迪·巴拉特（Andy Barratt）与第一个项目的学术和社区合作伙伴合作编写。所有年龄段的演员都将从当地社区招募。它将在绿色空间中进行，主要是在“爱公园周”（2016年8月）期间，这是一个庆祝公园和开放空间的全国性节日。表演将是非正式的，允许观众尽可能少或尽可能多地观察和互动，因为他们有时间或倾向去做。它将描绘公园历史上最重要、最激动人心的时刻和问题，包括它们从创建到现在是如何被使用、开发、管理和竞争的。它还将挑战关于现在如何使用绿色空间以及未来如何使用它们的普遍假设。视频节选以及博客和短文将被上传到网上，以扩大其在地理和人口方面的接受程度。在演出的同时，还将与项目伙伴合作举办一系列以社区为中心的活动。所有这些都将与原始研究成果相关联，并旨在鼓励参与和知识共享。一些活动将把研究带到社区的中心，使用当地的社区中心和设施。许多活动将在“爱情公园周”期间举行，以确保所有宣传机会都得到充分利用。有些游戏，如寻宝游戏或传统游戏，突出空间的使用方式，将具有广泛的家庭吸引力。其他一些活动，如促进公园历史作用的全县学习日，将吸引来自广泛地理区域的非学术观众。兴趣团体提供的机会，例如森林之友的年度“包容行走”以及与框架之家协会的合作，将被用作与包括弱势成年人在内的新群体和个人接触和分享的平台。

Despite significant increases in population between 1760 and 1840, Nottingham remained hemmed in by common lands, the rights to which were fiercely preserved by a determined band of burgesses. After much campaigning, an Enclosure Act was granted in 1845 which allowed housing development on previously open fields to relieve the severe overcrowding and insanitary living conditions of the town. Importantly, the Act ensured that 130 acres were set aside for public open space intended to improve the health and conduct of the townspeople, particularly the working classes. During the second half of the twentieth century this originally middle-class district became a working class area with significant mixed immigrant and student communities, many multi-occupied properties and different kinds of social needs. The open spaces, however, continue to fulfil their original purpose, though the uses have changed.The co-produced community project, The Social World of Nottingham's Historic Green Spaces, investigated the influences that led to the creation of the spaces, their changing use and misuse, the impact of war, the evolution of planting schemes, and conflict and debate about twentieth century modernisation and re-development. The project brought together community groups and stakeholders with different interests, mirroring its emphasis upon the historical co-creation, co-management and shared community usages of Nottingham's parks. The project's findings were shared through two showcase events at which 78% of the audience was non-academic, mainly from local history and heritage groups. These were followed up by articles based on the joint research, some co-written, published in local history journals. This follow-on project will use innovative, popular and easily accessible activities to engage and share the research with a much broader audience than was reached in the original project. The core will be a community play, written by Andy Barratt, an experienced community playwright, in collaboration with the academic and community partners of first project. The all-age cast will be recruited from the local community. It will be performed in the green spaces it discusses, mainly during 'Love Parks Week' (Aug 2016) a national Festival that celebrates parks and open spaces. Performances will be informal, allowing audiences to observe and interact as little or as much as they have the time or inclination to do. It will portray the most important and exciting moments and issues in the history of the parks, including how they have been used, developed, policed and contested from their creation to the present day. It will also challenge common assumptions about how green spaces are used now and how they might be used in the future. Videoed excerpts, together with blogs and short articles, will be uploaded to the web to geographically and demographically widen its reception. Around the performances will be a host of community-focused activities organised in collaboration with the project partners. All will link to the original research findings and be designed to encourage participation and knowledge sharing. Some activities will take the research into the heart of the community, using local community centres and facilities. Many will be held during 'Love Parks Week' to ensure all promotional opportunities are exploited. Some, e.g. treasure hunts or traditional games that highlight how the spaces have been used, will have broad, family appeal. Others, such as county-wide Study Day to promote the historic role of parks, will appeal to a non-academic audience from a wide geographic area. Opportunities provided by interest groups, e.g. the Friends of The Forest's annual 'Inclosure Walk' and a collaboration with Framework House Association will be used as platforms to engage and share with new groups and individuals including vulnerable adults.