Multisensory multispecies storytelling to engage disadvantaged groups in changing landscapes

该项目将利用多物种故事，让西北地区的弱势群体参与景观和土地利用的决策过程。该项目继承了AHRC成功的“通过艺术将弱势年轻人与景观联系起来”、“故事2connect”和“多物种故事：超越人类对景观的叙述”项目，所有这些项目都以参与式的方式讲述故事。这些项目针对的是弱势群体和残疾青年、儿童以及社区农场用户的不同群体。从以前的项目中获得的方法和学习正在被汇集和综合，以吸引新的受众，与新的利益相关者组织合作，并制定新的工作主题。具体来说，该项目将使用多物种故事来开发关于景观的多感官人工制品，捕捉边缘化社区和弱势群体的声音，并回应各种不同的方式来理解世界。从一棵橡树的“记忆”中理解景观，像蜜蜂一样“看到”土地，像声音景观一样体验空间，或者通过触觉或嗅觉，从不同的角度，通过其他的时间框架和尺度来思考景观和土地的使用。多物种方法在使人们参与与生物多样性丧失和气候变化有关的问题方面是有效的，并且可以鼓励识别和联系土地、环境和居住在其中的其他物种。它们还促使人们思考，究竟是谁在讲述关于风景的故事，以及谁有能力讲述这些故事。后续资金将用于扩大与现有项目相关组织的合作，并加强项目与新利益相关者组织的接触和影响。与Burscough社区农场、Rusland Horizons Trust、Blackpool Council、Art Gene、儿童图书作家和插画家协会、当地艺术家和专业说书人的联系将继续保持，与国家自闭症协会、自然英格兰、野生鸟类和湿地信托基金会、Williamson艺术画廊和博物馆以及教堂画廊的新伙伴关系将通过后续资金得以实现。通过合作伙伴，该项目将继续与社区农场用户和残疾年轻人合作，还将包括在全国自闭症协会的协助下患有自闭症的年轻人。该项目将通过新的和现有的合作伙伴，进一步扩大以前项目在西北地区的地理覆盖范围，通过已同意提供展览和活动场地的合作机构，吸引新的观众。该项目将利用以前项目中开发的创新参与式方法和资源，这些方法和资源将应用于共同创造一系列新的多感官人工制品，这些人工制品将在西北地区不同的室内和室外场地进行策划和展出。开发的多感官人工制品和环境将采用多物种叙事，以及视觉方面，还可能采用声音、气味、空间和触觉等，以响应广泛的潜在用户的需求和理解，而不是优先考虑与世界进行传统或有限的感官接触。展览将同时举办重要活动，邀请持份者团体和在景观及土地使用方面有既得利益的机构的决策者参加。

The project will use multispecies storytelling to engage disadvantaged groups in the north west in decision making processes about landscape and land use. The project follows on from the successful AHRC 'Connecting disadvantaged young people with landscape through arts', 'Stories2Connect' and 'Multispecies Storytelling: More than human narratives about landscape' projects, all of which use storytelling in participatory ways. These projects have worked with disadvantaged and disabled young people, children, and diverse groups of community farm users. The methods and learning gained from previous projects are being brought together and synthesised to engage new audiences, collaborate with new stakeholder organisations and develop new themes of work. Specifically, the project will use multispecies storytelling to develop multisensory artefacts about landscape that capture the voices of marginalised communities and disadvantaged groups and respond to a variety of different ways of making sense of the world. Understanding a landscape from the 'memory' of an oak tree, 'seeing' the land as a bee might, experiencing a space as a soundscape or through touch or smell invites thinking about landscape and land use from different perspectives, through other timeframes and scales. Multispecies approaches have been effective in engaging people with issues related to biodiversity loss and climate change and can encourage identifications and connections with land, environments and other species who inhabit them. They also prompt consideration of whose stories about landscape are being told, and who is enabled to tell them.The follow on funding will be used to expand work with organisations linked to the existing projects and enhance the reach and impact of the projects with new stakeholder organisations. Connections with Burscough Community Farm, Rusland Horizons Trust, Blackpool Council, Art Gene, the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, local artists and professional storytellers will be maintained and new partnerships with the National Autistic Society, Natural England, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Martin Mere, Williamson Art Gallery and Museum and The Chapel Gallery will be enabled by the follow on funding. Through the partners, the project will continue to work with community farm users and young people with disabilities and will also include young people with autism, facilitated by the National Autistic Society. The project will, through new and existing partners, expand the geographical coverage of the previous projects further across the north west to reach new audiences through the partner organisations that have agreed to provide venues for exhibitions and events.The project will utilise innovative participatory methodologies and resources developed in the previous projects which will be applied in the co-creation of a new series of multisensory artefacts that will be curated and exhibited at different indoor and outdoor sites across the north west. The multisensory artefacts and environments developed will use multispecies storytelling and, as well as visual aspects, may also employ, for example, sound, smell, space and touch to respond to the needs and understandings of a wide range of potential users, rather than prioritising traditional or limited sensory engagements with the world. The exhibitions will be accompanied by key events to which decision makers from stakeholder groups and those organisations with vested interests in landscape and land use will be invited.