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

该项目调查人文驱动但共同产生的做法如何改善受景观、土地使用和土地资产变化影响的社区的环境、文化和社会成果，这些变化与20世纪大型工业综合体的过去、现在和未来的废弃有关。工业遗产-退役-景观-参与式研究-地域感-共同创造-跨学科。联合王国最近通过了应对气候变化的雄心勃勃的目标，要求在未来30年彻底改变能源格局(英国政府，2011年，69-73年；科纳杜，2015年；普赖斯，2018年；气候变化委员会，2019年)。除了风力涡轮机和太阳能发电场等新的发电场所外，随着英国20世纪庞大的能源基础设施退役、发电景观消失、化石燃料生产基础设施变得多余，这需要一个快速而复杂的土地使用变化过程。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历应该提醒我们，退役对当地社区、文化、环境和福祉可能造成灾难性后果(Johnstone和Hielscher，2017；Foden et。Al.，2014)。我们的项目的创新之处在于：a)将共同创造作为一种人文和艺术驱动的对土地利用变化决策的贡献；b)将社区间联网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遗址的工作寿命结束之前就开始的事情(Avrami，2000)。来自三个地点的社区将与学者一起共同产生该项目的产出和成果。这些地点被选为过去、正在进行和未来退役的例子-特伦特河畔斯托克郊区的查特莱-惠特菲尔德前煤矿；汉普郡福利最近关闭的石油发电站；以及特伦特山谷剩余的两个燃煤发电站之一的西伯顿。社区间联网将使项目和不同的社区能够利用各自的经验和专长，例如，在查泰莱-惠特菲尔德的共同创作艺术实践和遗产地位的经验，在Fawley的规划和专业知识，在West Burton的审美和视觉展示。将这些小组聚集在一起将在为期两天的讲习班的三次迭代之间提供连续性，我们和我们的利益攸关方将在适应每个地点的情况下改进共同创作方法，以共同编制反映遗产意义随时间变化和动态特征的工作文件。通过将历史、社区参与和当代关于景观的问题结合在一起，我们希望创建政策建议，帮助社区应对20世纪能源基础设施日益衰落的前景和现实。

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.