Orkney: 'Beside the Ocean of Time'

个人和社区如何理解Deep Time？相对短期的观点在当代社会中占主导地位，因为他们面临着景观变化对人类生活各个方面的复杂持续影响，从农业、食物和能源的提供到自然或文化景观的保护。需要更全面、更深入的认识。这个为期18个月的项目-“奥克尼：在时间的海洋旁边”-旨在通过跨学科的方法产生对人类社区，深层时间和景观变化之间相互关系的新理解，其中五位具有社会人类学，文学，考古学，古生态学和地质学背景的早期职业研究人员将共同努力，以奥克尼为模型，寻找创新的方法来调查和表现景观的时间深度。该项目将开发并试点一种跨学科的方法，使人们能够对奥克尼丰富的文学、地质、古环境和考古遗产有新的认识，并与当代对海岸侵蚀的关注以及能源生产的政治和经济重要性相结合。该项目将解决三个主要研究问题：-社区如何应对和适应景观变化？-人们与地点的接触的时间深度是什么？-我们如何让深时间可见？应对理解人类活动与景观变化的时间深度的挑战，需要艺术、人文和科学的综合见解。研究人员将结合他们的专业知识，在奥克尼进行跨学科的实地考察，包括：分析19世纪和20世纪的奥克尼文学；调查洪水、斯托尔加滑坡、火山灰和其他地质活动的影响；对奥克迪亚古环境资料的再分析；汇编和评估奥克尼遗留放射性碳测量的在线数据库；人种学田野调查（见下文）。我们将与项目合作伙伴码头艺术中心（Stromness）合作，并与当地艺术家合作，探索交流和展示实地工作成果的创造性方式，并使“深度时间”可见。该项目将在一个公开的深度时间节中达到高潮，其中包括艺术家的合作展览，以及一系列的公共研讨会、讲座和实地考察，这将使我们能够通过让社区参与关于时间深度和景观变化的感知的对话，进行进一步的民族志实地调查。该项目的研究成果也将通过包含地理标记图像、视频和其他研究数据的项目网站公布，并通过开发工具包供希望从事与时间和/或环境变化有关的跨学科科学、艺术和人文研究的研究人员使用。“奥克尼：在时间的海洋旁边”为文化科学项目提供了机会，让公众参与到时间对景观变化的影响中来。它将使社区能够就奥克尼的生活环境已经并将继续受到人类和自然活动的影响进行对话，无论是在遥远的过去，还是在不久的将来，现在，也许最重要的是，尚未确定的未来。

How do individuals and communities understand Deep Time? A relatively short-term perspective is dominant in contemporary societies as they face the complicated ongoing consequences of landscape change on every aspect of the human life, from agriculture and provision of food and energy to the protection of natural or cultural landscapes. A more holistic and deeper knowledge is required. This 18-month project - 'Orkney: Beside the Ocean of Time' - aims to generate new understandings of the interrelationship between human community, Deep Time and landscape change using an interdisciplinary approach, in which five Early Career Researchers with backgrounds in Social Anthropology, Literature, Archaeology, Palaeoecology and Geology, will work together to find innovative ways to investigate and represent time-depth in landscape, using Orkney as a model. The project will develop and pilot an interdisciplinary methodology that will enable new insights into Orkney's rich literary, geological, palaeoenvironmental and archaeological heritage, which is coupled with contemporary concerns over coastal erosion and the political and economic importance of energy generation. The project will address three main research questions:- How do communities respond and adapt to landscape change?- What is the time-depth of people's engagement with place?- How do we make Deep Time visible? Responding to the challenge of understanding human engagements with the time-depth of landscape change requires the combined insights of Arts, Humanities and Sciences. Researchers will combine their expertise to undertake interdisciplinary fieldwork on Orkney to include: analysis of 19th and 20th century Orcadian literature; investigation of the impact of flooding, the Storegga slide, volcanic ash, and other geological activity; a reanalysis of the Orcadian palaeoenvironmental data; an online database compiling and evaluating legacy Orkney radiocarbon measurements; ethnographic fieldwork (see below). Working together with our project partner, the Pier Arts Centre (Stromness), and in collaboration with a local artist, we will explore creative ways of communicating and representing the results of the fieldwork, and making Deep Time visible. The project will culminate in a public Festival of Deep Time, which will include an exhibition of the artist's collaboration, and a series of public workshops, talks and field-trips, that will enable us to undertake further ethnographic fieldwork, by involving the community in a dialogue about perceptions of time-depth and landscape change. The research findings of the project will also be made available via a project website containing geotagged images, video and other research data, and through the development of a toolkit for researchers wishing to undertake interdisciplinary Science, Arts, and Humanities research in relation to time and/or environmental change.'Orkney: Beside the Ocean of Time' contributes to the Science in Culture Programme by providing opportunities for public engagement with the effects of time on landscape change. It will enable community dialogue about the ways in which the lived environment of Orkney has been, and will continue to be shaped by human and natural activities, in the deep and near past, the present moment, and perhaps most significantly, the as yet, undetermined future.