Net-Zero Visions for the Devon Climate Emergency

这个项目出现在一个为期2年的AHRC资助的早期职业研究员领导奖学金项目，“想象替代品：乌托邦，社区和小说，1880- 2015年”，调查如何在不久的将来被想象和代表。这项研究探讨了小说中的一种倾向，即考虑个人或全球范围内的大众，忽视了社区，地区和国家等可能仍然存在大量机构的地点。它还审查了反乌托邦未来愿景的优势，以及相应的乐观或“乌托邦”思维的必要性，这种思维可以为未来开辟一种可能性，建立变革能力，并对抗悲观和丧失权力的感觉。通过与社区团体和可再生能源非营利组织Regen合作举办的一系列研讨会和活动，PI开发了一种参与模式，通过对基于地方的未来的想象来催化当地变化。德文郡气候紧急响应小组（DCERG）的成立是为了协调对德文郡气候紧急情况的合作响应，由大约25个组织的高级官员组成，包括：11个县议会;紧急服务;企业;志愿组织。由于他的研究，PI被邀请参与净零工作组，这是一个由经济，环境，健康和学术组织组成的团队，由一位领先的气候专家担任主席，DCERG委托他们制定以证据为导向的德文郡碳计划（DCP），到2050年实现净零碳。PI的研究导致了该计划的目标和优先行动的创建：支持社区团体发展当地的净零愿景，其中他们集体和详细地想象脱碳的德文郡。后续供资将使这一目标得以行动和实现，从而帮助建立公众对净零变化的合法性和可行性的支持;帮助人们认识到改善的变化是可能的;并支持社区在零净排放的背景下重新构想自己，从而提高当地的过渡能力。项目团队由PI和CI Emma Whittaker博士组成，普利茅斯大学“低碳德文郡”项目的创意产业研究员。他们将与项目合作伙伴DCERG的项目经理艾米丽里德和净零工作组的成员合作;备受赞誉的德文郡创意产业专业人士苏根特（插画家），阿什利波特制作公司：Mutant Creative & Mutant Labs（游戏开发者），Kate Crawfurd（壁画艺术家）与Igneous Interactive（增强现实）;来自德文郡7个地点的社区团体或团体联盟;普利茅斯大学的一个图书制作团队。项目活动将有几个方面：1.在7个不同的地点共同制作展示净零愿景，每个愿景都由获奖的德文郡诗人菲奥娜·本森（Fiona Benson）总结：帮助建立公众对DCP的认识和参与，并促进考虑改变的意愿。将通过DCERG网站的网页、启动活动和一本附有照片、PI论文和参与者账户的书进行传播。在网页上向公众征集、选择和传播净零德文郡愿景，以便通过基础研究思想促进对DCP的详细参与。共同制作支持材料，以便与净零愿景进行互动，这些材料将放在网页上。一个关键目标是与合作伙伴DCERG和主要社区宣传者确定的新受众接触。与项目团队、合作伙伴和其他利益相关者举行为期一天的研讨会。这将共同制作传播活动和参与材料，并将其纳入利用当地零净愿景作为促进社区变革工具的最佳做法模式。

This project emerges from a 2-year AHRC-funded Early Career Researcher Leadership Fellowship project, 'Imagining Alternatives: Utopia, Community and the Novel, 1880-2015', which investigated how the near future is being imagined and represented. This research explored a tendency in fiction to either consider the individual or the mass global scale, neglecting sites such as community, region and nation where substantial agency might still be located. It also examined the preponderance of dystopian future visions and the corresponding need for optimistic or 'utopian' thinking that can open a sense of possibility for the future, build capacity for change, and counter feelings of pessimism and disempowerment. Through a series of workshops and events, in collaboration with community groups and the renewable energy not-for-profit Regen, the PI developed an engagement model for catalysing local change through the imagination of place-based futures.Devon Climate Emergency Response Group (DCERG) was established to coordinate a collaborative response to the Devon Climate Emergency, and is made up of senior officers of about 25 organisations including: 11 county councils; emergency services; businesses; and voluntary organisations. As a result of his research the PI was invited to engage with the Net-Zero Task Force, a team drawn from economic, environmental, health and academic organisations and chaired by a leading climate expert, who have been tasked by DCERG with producing an evidence-led Devon Carbon Plan (DCP) for becoming net-zero carbon by 2050. The PI's research led to the creation of a goal and priority action for the plan: to support community groups to develop local net-zero visions, in which they imagine a decarbonised Devon collectively and in detail. The follow-on funding will allow this goal to be actioned and achieved, thereby helping build public support for the legitimacy and feasibility of change to net-zero; helping people to realise that change for the better is possible; and supporting communities in re-imagining themselves in the context of net-zero, so increasing local capacity for transition.The project team comprises the PI and CI Dr Emma Whittaker, the Creative Industries Research Fellow for the 'Low Carbon Devon' project at the University of Plymouth. They will work with Emily Reed, Project Manager at the project partner DCERG, and members of the Net-Zero Task Force; acclaimed Devon-based Creative Industry professionals, Sue Gent (illustrator), Ashley Potter (animation), Mutant Creative & Mutant Labs (games developers), Kate Crawfurd (mural artist) with Igneous Interactive (Augmented Reality); community groups or coalitions of groups from 7 locations across Devon; a book production team based at the University of Plymouth. The project activities will have several strands:1. Coproduction of Showcase Net-Zero Visions in 7 different locations, with each Vision linked together on conclusion by the award-winning Devon-based poet Fiona Benson: to help build public awareness of and engagement with the DCP, and to promote a willingness to consider change as possible. To be disseminated via webpages on the DCERG website, launch events, and a book with photos, essay by PI and participant accounts.2. Solicitation, selection and dissemination of Net-Zero Devon visions from the public, hosted on the webpages, so as to foster detailed engagement in the DCP via the underpinning research ideas.3. Coproduction of supporting material for interaction with Net-Zero visions, to be hosted on the webpages. A key aim will be to engage with new audiences as identified by partner DCERG and lead community stakeholders.4. A one-day workshop with project team, partner, and other stakeholders. This will coproduce the dissemination activities and engagement materials, and feed into a model of best practice for using local net-zero visions as a tool for catalysing change with communities.