Risky Cities: Living with Water in an Uncertain Future Climate

面对气候的不确定性，河口和沿海城市非常脆弱。世界上40%的人口生活在距海100公里的范围内，沿海人口直接面临海平面上升以及风暴潮、河流洪水风险和降雨增加的综合影响的风险。社会需要在地方、国家和全球范围内具有更大的韧性：河口社区和企业必须学会在不确定的未来“与水共存”。然而，让不同社区面对水的挑战是各机构和政府面临的一个重大问题，社会中最脆弱的群体往往对复原力行动知之甚少。在这里，我们带来了创新的艺术和遗产解决方案，以解决这些社区面临洪水风险的问题，并在一个容易发生洪水的城市--英国的金斯敦河畔赫尔--建立复原力。赫尔因其在面对海平面上升的情况下容易遭受洪水的脆弱性而闻名全球。它是洛克菲勒基金会和奥雅纳城市水弹性框架开发计划的五个全球城市之一。然而，国际上对赫尔未来洪水风险的认识在当地社区中几乎没有反映出来。尽管2007年、2013年和2015年发生了严重的洪水事件，而且这座城市有800年的水挑战历史，但这一点仍然存在。赫尔大学优秀的档案记录、文学和戏剧作品，再加上该大学在洪水科学和模型、环境历史和文学、社区参与和文化部门评估方面的专业知识，为探索城市和周边地区的风险和复原力历史提供了无与伦比的机会。在这个项目中，我们开发了基于研究的学习历史，以建立未来的复原力，雄心勃勃地利用对洪水风险的复原力同比提高的雄心，并在赫尔及其周围采取复原力行动。我们与艺术合作伙伴和从业者、防洪机构、年轻人和当地社区合作，他们将为共同制作研究议程以及学术和政策相关产出做出贡献-我们将这些学习历史用于基于社区的艺术和遗产干预以及国家艺术组织的大型作品中，包括绝对文化和国家青年剧院(NYT)。在三位常驻艺术家的支持下，我们的研究解决了三个主题群的问题(在目标和CFS中指定)，研究结果既为项目计划的参与活动提供信息，又由其塑造。与项目合作伙伴达成的实质性合作使我们雄心勃勃的艺术和遗产计划的影响范围大大扩大(见PTIS)。利用社会科学方法和与社区和青年团体共同设计的艺术评估参与性工具，我们询问了艺术和遗产干预措施的有效性，以提高对气候的认识，并在实际的复原力行动中发挥作用，评估参与的模式，并制定可在全国和全球应用的最佳做法。通过这样做，我们的目标是提高英国及其他高风险城市的气候变化意识和抗洪能力。这一项目的产出包括：在‘濒临灭绝’区的学校、社区和青年团体中开展综合艺术和遗产活动的计划；洪水节；由我们的学习历史提供信息并由社区和青年团体与国家艺术组织、纽约时报和绝对文化组织合作创作的备受瞩目的市中心艺术作品；声音行走；在主要国际和跨学科期刊上发表文章，其中一些是与艺术工作者和社区成员共同撰写的；在威斯敏斯特推出的政策报告和相关的公共政策简报；一个短片；一个讲习班；一个面向公众的网站，其中包括一个托管播客、博客和教学材料的网站。

Estuarine and coastal cities are acutely vulnerable in the face of climate uncertainty. 40% of the world's population lives within 100km of the sea and coastal populations are directly at risk from rising sea levels and the combined effects of storm surges, fluvial flood risk and increased rainfall. Society needs greater resilience at the local, national and global scale: estuarine communities and businesses must learn to 'live with water' in an uncertain future. Yet engaging diverse communities with water challenges is a significant problem for agencies and governments, with the most vulnerable in societies often the least well informed about resilience actions. Here we bring innovative arts and heritage solutions to bear on the problem of engaging these communities with flood risk and building resilience in one flood-prone city, Kingston upon Hull, UK.Hull is recognised globally for its vulnerability to flooding in the face of rising sea levels. It is one of five global cities selected to participate in the Rockefeller Foundation's and Arup's City Water Resilience Framework development programme. Yet international awareness of Hull's future flood risk finds little reflection in local communities. And this despite serious flood events in 2007, 2013 and 2015, as well as an 800-year history of living with water challenges in the city. Hull's excellent archival records and literary and dramatic works - combined with the University's expertise in flood science and modelling, environmental histories and literature, community engagement and cultural sector evaluation - offer unrivalled opportunities to explore histories of risk and resilience in the city and surrounding area. In this project, we develop research-informed learning histories to build resilience for the future, with the ambition of leveraging a year-on-year improvement in resilience to flood risks and uptake of resilience actions in and around Hull. Working alongside arts partners and practitioners, flood agencies, young people and local communities - who will contribute to the co-production of research agendas as well as academic and policy-relevant outputs - we employ these learning histories in community-based arts and heritage interventions and large scale productions by national arts organisations including Absolutely Cultured and the National Youth Theatre (NYT). Supported by three artists in residence, our research addresses three thematic clusters of questions (specified in the Objectives and CFS), and the research outcomes both inform and are in turn shaped by the engagement activities planned for the project. The substantial collaborations agreed with project partners leverage significant wider reach for our ambitious arts and heritage programme (see PTIs). Using a combination of social science methodologies and participatory tools for arts evaluation co-designed with community and youth groups, we interrogate the effectiveness of arts and heritage interventions to raise climate awareness and deliver an uptake in practical resilience actions, evaluating models for engagement and developing best practice that can be applied nationally and globally. In doing so, we aim to improve climate change awareness and flood resilience in risky cities in the UK and beyond. Outputs from the project include: a programme of combined arts and heritage engagement in schools, community and youth groups in 'at risk' wards; a flood festival; high profile, city centre artistic productions informed by our learning histories and created by community and youth groups in collaboration with national arts organisations, the NYT and Absolutely Cultured; a sound walk; articles in major international and interdisciplinary journals, some of them co-authored with arts practitioners and community members; a policy report and associated public policy brief launched at Westminster; a short film; a workshop; and a public facing website hosting podcasts, blogs and teaching materials.