AALERT 4 DM - Art and Artists in Landscape and Environment Research Today for Decision Making

艺术和艺术家在景观和环境研究今天的决策（AALERT 4 DM）项目的目的是探索和加强影响艺术研究，可以在有关景观，土地使用和土地资产的决策。它建立在2018年举行的AALERT研讨会（NEC05173）的遗产基础上，以及艺术家在现有研究项目中的实践和研究的巨大贡献（例如，由重视自然计划资助的项目）。一个关键的重点是了解如何从艺术和人文的角度可以用来浏览景观和决策中的文化价值的复杂领域。景观是自然力量和人类活动之间长期和多方面相互作用的动态实体，反映了更广泛的社会经济环境和价值观。关于土地的知情决策应该同时考虑环境，社会，经济，文化和福祉价值。这就需要对决策采取多层面的方法，并需要在对景观管理感兴趣的各种不同研究人员、利益攸关方和决策团体之间进行跨学科合作。正是在这种背景下，艺术和人文学科的观点可以做出独特的贡献。虽然艺术和人文实践者已经开展了许多活动，涉及艺术家，社区和景观决策，但仍有空间将这些活动与规划师，经济学家和其他参与景观的利益相关者的工作更加集中。有一个广泛的决策者需要了解批判性思考和创造力如何可以提高景观决策。人们普遍认为，艺术家可以表达情感和道德判断，并有助于我们对价值观的理解。然而，了解艺术家创造新知识的能力，不是一件小事。它需要被纳入决策模型，以适应其他专家，如经济学家和生态学家，并要求参与不同学科领域的基本哲学，伦理和政治话语。AALERT 4 DM计划将提供一个机会，通过跨学科视角和专业实践进行建设性对话。它将吸引一系列来自不同传统的参与者，他们对景观和土地资产管理感兴趣，包括艺术家，艺术组织，地理学家，人类学家，历史学家，社会学家，哲学家，生态学家，社会科学家，设计师，政策制定者和景观管理者，规划师和监管机构以及土地所有者。它将使艺术家与更广泛的学者和利益攸关方进行对话，通过一个由五个研讨会组成的活动计划（一个范围研讨会，三个区域案例研究研讨会和一个综合研讨会），并与影响活动的更广泛途径（例如撰写务虚会以产生产出并积极促进社交媒体的发现）保持一致。在24个月的时间里，该网络将批判性地反思国内外新兴的跨学科和跨学科的例子，以建立对景观和土地利用管理不同方面的共同理解，并将明确阐述艺术和艺术家研究人员在支持新的整体土地决策框架方面可以发挥的各种作用（概念，实践，交流）。总而言之，该计划将巩固现有举措，开辟新天地，并与不同的学术受众以及长期政策制定和实用景观管理相关。

The Arts and the Artist in Landscape and Environmental Research Today for Decision Making (AALERT 4 DM) project aims to explore and enhance the impact arts research, can make in decision-making related to landscape, land-use and land assets. It builds on the legacy of the AALERT workshop (NEC05173), held in 2018, and considerable contributions of artist practice & research in existing research projects (e.g. projects funded by the Valuing Nature Programme). A key focus is to understand how perspectives from the arts and humanities can be used to navigate the complex territory of cultural values in landscape and decision making. Landscapes are dynamic entities resulting from long and multifaceted interactions between natural forces and human actions that reflect wider socio-economic circumstances and values. Informed decisions about land should appreciate simultaneously environmental, social, economic, cultural, and wellbeing values. This requires multidimensional approaches to decision-making and interdisciplinary collaborations between a broad range of different researchers, stakeholders and decision-making groups with interests in landscape management. It is in this context that perspectives from the arts and humanities can make distinctive contributions. While there is already much activity from the arts and humanities practitioners that involves artists, communities and landscape decision making there is scope to align these more centrally with the work of planners, economists and other stakeholders involved in landscape. There is a need for a broad cross-section of decision makers to understand how critical reflections and creativity can enhance landscape decisions. It widely accepted that artists can articulate emotions and moral judgements and contribute to our understanding of values. However, understanding the ability of artists to create new knowledge, is not a trivial undertaking. It needs to be incorporated into models of decision making that accommodate other specialists such as economists and ecologists and requires engagement with underlying philosophical, ethical and political discourses across diverse subject areas. The AALERT 4 DM programme will provide an opportunity for constructive dialogues to take place by cutting across disciplinary perspectives and professional practices. It will engage a range of actors from different traditions who share an interest in landscape and land assets management including artists, arts organisations, geographers, anthropologists, historians, sociologists, philosophers, ecologists, social scientists, designers, policy-makers and landscape managers, planners and regulators as well as land owners. It will bring artists into dialogue with wider academics and stakeholders through a programme of events consisting of five workshops (a Scoping workshop, three Regional Case Studies workshops, and one Synthesis workshop) and aligned with wider pathways to impact activities (e.g. writing retreats to produce outputs and actively promote findings in social media). In a period of twenty four months the network will critically reflect on emerging interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary examples from this country and abroad to create a shared understanding of the different aspects within landscape and land use management and will develop a clear articulation of the various roles (conceptual, practical, communicative) that arts and artist researchers can play in support of a new holistic land decision-making framework. In sum, this programme will consolidate existing initiatives, break new ground, and be relevant to diverse academic audiences as well as policy development and practical landscape management in the long term.