Portrayals of Prehistoric Tràng An

申请资助，以便将现有项目（SUNDASIA）的研究成果转化为越南Tràng景观综合体世界遗产的公众参与形式。拟议的活动将为Tràng管理委员会应世界遗产委员会2018年关于考古遗产管理和遗产推广的具体要求而制定的五年（2020- 2025）文化遗产计划做出重要贡献（决定：42 COM 7B.62-https://whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/7291）。该建筑考古记录的主要评估者是由申请人领导的AHRC/GCRF -宣璋建筑企业共同资助的SUNDASIA项目（2016-20）。该研究一直在调查过去的环境变化对早期人类占领Tràng An景观的影响，以及可以为应对现代人类引起的气候变化挑战和联合国可持续发展目标带来的见解。Tràng文化遗产项目的第一阶段包括将一个非常受欢迎的电影场景重新开发成一个创新的展览空间，展示该物业的杰出普世价值。英国和Tràng联合管理委员会团队（由申请人领导）于2019年底进行了现场检查。经过进一步的咨询，展览的整体设计概念计划融入并补充围绕该地点（一个岛屿）的引人注目的森林塔式喀斯特山峰。在此背景下，SUNDASIA的研究成果将有助于还原Tràng安城深厚的考古记录和自然历史，这也是将安城列入《世界遗产名录》的标准。岛屿展览将包括两个可交付的元素。室外，主要位于水边，将是一系列15个真人大小的青铜人兽雕像（为了耐用和易于维护）。这些将以相互关联的狩猎-采集叙事来描绘史前场景。这些小品的放置将确保从酒店的许多旅游船上可见，并将包括忠实地代表酒店过去丰富的生物多样性的动物。关于所描绘的内容的基本信息将由桨手传递给游客，从而引入个性化叙事的元素，并投资当地员工在传达财产遗产方面发挥积极作用。游客将有机会下船并进入展览的第二个元素：步行穿过岛中央的一座低调的小建筑。这将在景观中不引人注目，并提供过去的信息和感官体验。提议的设计将在内部具有洞穴般的特征，同时保留直接的自然光，并通过玻璃天花板看到天空和周围景观。内部的展示空间将包含多个元素来展示SUNDASIA项目的成果。其中包括一个洞穴立体模型，描绘了史前围绕壁炉的活动，以及一个12000年前Tràng An居民的面部重建。信息面板、视频展示和印刷品将以通俗易懂的非学术语言传达细节，解释该遗产文化遗产的史前故事、影响该景观的过去和未来环境变化，以及生物多样性状况的相关变化。特别要求AHRC后续资金用于培训当地文化遗产管理人员，记录展览的发展，并通过视觉、话语和印刷媒体向参观公众展示SUNDASIA的成果。

Funding is requested so that research outcomes from an existing project (SUNDASIA) can be translated into forms of public engagement within the Tràng An Landscape Complex World Heritage property, Vietnam. The activities proposed will make key contributions to a 5-year (2020-25) cultural heritage programme that is being prepared by the Tràng An Management Board in response to specific requests from the World Heritage Committee in 2018 regarding archaeological heritage management and heritage promotion (Decision: 42 COM 7B.62-https://whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/7291). The principal evaluator of this property's archaeological record has been the AHRC/GCRF - Xuan Truong Construction Enterprise co-funded SUNDASIA Project (2016-20), led by the Applicant. This research has been investigating the impact of past environmental change on early human occupation of the Tràng An landscape, and the insights that can bring to dealing with modern human-induced climate change challenges and UN Sustainability Goals.The first stage of the Tràng An cultural heritage programme involves redeveloping what has been a hugely popular film set attraction into an innovative exhibition space that showcases the Outstanding Universal Values of the property. Site inspection by a joint UK and Tràng An Management Board team (led by the Applicant) took place in late 2019. Following further consultation, the overall design concept for the exhibition is planned to incorporate and complement the dramatic forested tower karst peaks that surround the location (an island). Against that backdrop research findings from SUNDASIA will help bring to life Tràng An's deep archaeological record and natural history - the criteria of the property's mixed inscription on the World Heritage List. The island exhibition will comprise two deliverable elements. Outside, situated predominantly along the water's edge, will be a series of 15 life-size bronze (for durability and ease of maintenance) figures of human and animals. These will depict prehistoric scenes in an inter-connected hunter-gather narrative. The placement of these vignettes will ensure visibility from the property's many tourist boats and will include animals that faithfully represent the property's rich past biodiversity. Basic information about what is being portrayed will be relayed to visitors by the boat-rowers, thus introducing an element of personalised narrative and investing local staff with an active role in conveying the property's heritage.Visitors will have the opportunity to disembark and enter the second element of the exhibition: a walk through a small low-profile building in the middle of the island. This will sit unobtrusively in the landscape and offer an informative and sensory experience of the past. The proposed design will have a cave-like character inside while retaining direct natural light and views of the sky and surrounding landscape through a glass ceiling. The display space within will contain multiple elements that showcase the findings of the SUNDASIA project. These will include a cave diorama depicting prehistoric activities around a hearth and a centre-piece facial reconstruction of a 12,000 year old inhabitant of Tràng An. Information panels, video displays and printed matter will convey details in accessible non-academic language, explaining the prehistoric story of the property's cultural heritage, past and future environmental changes affecting this landscape, and associated changes in the state of its biodiversity. AHRC Follow-On Funding is specifically requested to contribute towards the training of local staff in cultural heritage management, documenting of the exhibition's development, and presenting SUNDASIA outcomes to the visiting public through visual, discursive and printed media.