Decommissioning the Twentieth Century: Energy Landscapes, Heritage, and Community

该项目探讨了以人为本，但共同生产的实践如何改善社区的环境、文化和社会成果，这些社区受到景观、土地利用和土地资产变化的影响，这些变化与20世纪大型工业综合体的过去、现在和未来退役有关。工业遗产-退役-景观-参与研究-地方感-共同创造-跨学科。英国最近通过了雄心勃勃的目标来应对气候变化，要求在未来30年内彻底改变能源格局（HM Government, 2011, 69-73; Konadu, 2015; Price, 2018; Committee on climate change, 2019）。除了风力涡轮机和太阳能农场等新的发电场所，这需要一个快速而复杂的土地利用变化过程，因为英国20世纪庞大的能源基础设施正在退役，发电景观消失，化石燃料生产基础设施变得多余。这些景观转变的过程已经开始，20世纪80年代关闭许多煤矿的政治决定的经验应该提醒我们，退役对当地社区、文化、环境和福祉的潜在灾难性后果（Johnstone和Hielscher, 2017； Foden等人，2014）。该项目为这些场地提供了必要的干预，使用跨学科的艺术和人文方法来推动更全面、更敏感的退役决策过程。我们项目的创新之处在于：a)引入共同创造，将其作为人文和艺术对土地利用变化决策的贡献；b)将社区间网络作为研究的核心促进因素；c)将遗产和遗产规划理解为在工业场地的工作寿命结束之前开始的事情（Avrami, 2000）。来自三个地点的社区将与学术界合作，共同生产项目的产出和成果。这些地点被选为过去、正在进行和未来退役的例子——位于特伦特河畔斯托克郊区的查特莱-惠特菲尔德前煤矿；最近关闭的汉普郡福利的石油发电站；西伯顿是特伦特河谷仅存的两座燃煤电厂之一。社区间的网络将使项目和不同的社区能够利用各自的经验和专业知识，例如，共同创作的艺术实践和查特莱-惠特菲尔德遗产地位的经验，福利的规划和专业知识，以及西伯顿的美学和视觉呈现。将这些小组聚集在一起，将在为期两天的研讨会的三个迭代之间提供连续性，在此期间，我们和我们的利益相关者将改进共同创造的方法，因为它们适合每个地点，共同制作工作文件，反映遗产意义随时间的变化和动态特征。通过将历史、社区参与和当代景观问题结合在一起，我们希望制定政策建议，帮助社区应对20世纪能源基础设施衰落的前景和现实。

This project investigates how humanities-driven, but co-produced practices can improve the environmental, cultural and social outcomes for communities affected by the changes to landscape, land-use and land assets associated with the past, present and future decommissioning of large twentieth-century industrial complexes. Industrial Heritage - Decommissioning - Landscape - Participatory research - sense of place - co-creative - inter-disciplinary. The United Kingdom recently passed ambitious targets to tackle climate change, requiring a radical transformation of the energy landscape over the next 30 years (HM Government, 2011, 69-73; Konadu, 2015; Price, 2018; Committee on Climate Change, 2019). Alongside new sites of power generation such as wind turbines and solar farms, this necessitates a rapid and complex process of land-use change, as the UK's vast 20th-century energy infrastructure is decommissioned, landscapes of electricity generation disappear, and the infrastructure of fossil-fuel production becomes redundant. These processes of landscape transformation have already begun, and the experience of the political decision to close many coal mines in the 1980s should alert us to the potentially disastrous consequences of decommissioning for local communities, cultures, environments and well-being (Johnstone and Hielscher, 2017; Foden et. al., 2014). This project provides an essential intervention for such sites, using cross-disciplinary arts and humanities methods to drive forward a more holistic and sensitive decision-making process for decommissioning.Our project innovates by a) introducing co-creation as a humanities and arts driven contribution to land-use change decisions, b) by using inter-community networking as a core facilitating element of the research, and c) by understanding heritage and heritage planning as something that begins before the working life of industrial sites comes to an end (Avrami, 2000). Communities from three sites will join with academics to co-produce outputs and outcomes from the project. The sites have been chosen as examples of past, ongoing and future decommissioning - the former colliery of Chatterley-Whitfield on the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent; the recently-closed oil power station at Fawley in Hampshire; and West Burton, one of two remaining coal power stations in the Trent Valley. Inter-community networking will enable the project and differing communities to take advantage of their respective experience and expertise in, for example, co-creative artistic practice and experience of heritage status at Chatterley-Whitfield, planning and professional expertise at Fawley, and aesthetic and visual presentation at West Burton. Bringing these groups together will provide continuity between three iterations of a two-day workshop, across which we and our stakeholders will improve co-creative methods as they are adapted to each site, to co-produce working documents that reflect the changing and dynamic character of heritage meaning across time. By bringing history, community engagement and contemporary questions about landscape together, we hope to create policy recommendations that help communities deal with the prospect and reality of declining twentieth-century energy infrastructure.