The Great Climate Change Experiment: Changing Implicit Attitudes Through Creative Arts

伟大的气候变化实验：通过创意艺术改变隐性态度

• 批准号: AH/W004836/1
• 负责人: Laura McGuire
• 金额: $ 1.28万
• 依托单位: Edge Hill University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW004836%2F1
• 关键词: Great; Climate; Change; Experiment; Changing

The 'Great Climate Change Experiment' is an interdisciplinary venture using the creative arts (guided by the P.I. with a background in acting/drama), film (guided by McQuillan with an established reputation in film/media) and psychology (guided by Beattie with an international reputation in psychology) to change underlying implicit attitudes to carbon footprint, The applicants have an excellent track record of research in this area with publications in leading international journals, in both science (Nature Climate Change) and the arts and humanities (e.g. Semiotica). Beattie and McGuire's book 'The Psychology of Climate Change' (2018), which identifies cognitive and emotional barriers to climate change mitigation and what is missing in current climate change campaigns was selected by The Bookseller (in conjunction with UCL) as one of the ten 'essential environment reads' in their Academic Book week campaign in March 2020. Their research has consistently shown that implicit attitudes, measured using a computerised task assessing associative connections between high/low carbon footprint and evaluative concepts like 'good' and 'bad' are better predictors of visual attention to images of climate change, visual attention to carbon labels, and sustainable choices than self-reported attitudes. Implicit attitudes to carbon footprint need to change to make a real difference to climate change mitigation. McQuillan is an experienced, award-winning filmmaker and author of a monograph which explores in detail issues in practice-based research and filmmaking in a university context. We will work with 5 secondary schools in Kirkby, Liverpool, with children aged 14 - 18: All Saints Catholic High School, Halewood Academy, Kirkby High School, Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Prescot School. This in an area of the North West of England marked by particularly high levels of social deprivation and research suggests less interest in climate change. The contact with the schools has already been established through EHU's Faculty of Education. All schools have agreed to take part. We will work with the young people to devise unique programs based on creative arts and popular content that will engage them more fully with key aspects of climate change. The approach utilises the pioneering work of Schultz on emotional connectedness to nature alongside the work on implicit attitudes to impact on emotional connection and commitment to change.All young people will take a series of tests before they start on the programme (6th September), including measurement of implicit attitudes to carbon footprint (using our specially-designed Carbon Implicit Association Test), assessment of knowledge about sustainability, emotional feelings about climate change etc., We will then work with them on artistic collaborative workshops over 5 weeks; each workshop will be about different aspects of climate change using emotionally-involving creative arts - drama, art and creative writing. We will use 'photovoice' to capture how the young people feel when they explore issues related to climate change - the photos will later be used to interpret themes and narratives, forming a basis for discussion amongst the young people. We will use arts based evaluation including 'performative enquiry' to evaluate the drama based activities. They will produce all of the evaluative and reflexive material. This whole process will be documented in film using the methodologies of practice-based reflection to explore the resistances and contingencies within the path of attitudinal change as well as the contingencies and opportunities it presents to the practice-based researcher. The young people will then repeat the tests to measure change (11th Oct.). A report and the documentary film, will be completed by 8th November. The film will act as a model of what can be done, documenting this process of change. Initial public dissemination between 8th November and 31st December.

“伟大的气候变化实验”是一个跨学科的冒险使用创造性的艺术（由PI指导）。有表演/戏剧背景），电影（由McQuillan指导，在电影/媒体方面享有盛誉）和心理学（由在心理学方面享有国际声誉的Beattie指导），以改变对碳足迹的潜在内隐态度，申请人在这一领域的研究有着良好的记录，并在国际领先期刊上发表文章，在科学（自然气候变化）和艺术和人文（例如符号学）。Beattie和McGuire的书“气候变化心理学”（2018年）确定了减缓气候变化的认知和情感障碍，以及当前气候变化运动中缺少的内容，被The Bookseller（与UCL合作）选为2020年3月学术图书周活动中的十大“基本环境阅读”之一。他们的研究一直表明，使用计算机任务评估高/低碳足迹与“好”和“坏”等评价概念之间的关联关系来测量的内隐态度，比自我报告的态度更能预测对气候变化图像的视觉关注，对碳标签的视觉关注和可持续选择。对碳足迹的隐性态度需要改变，才能对减缓气候变化产生真实的影响。McQuillan是一位经验丰富，屡获殊荣的电影制片人，也是一本专著的作者，该专著详细探讨了大学背景下基于实践的研究和电影制作中的问题。我们将与利物浦柯克比的5所中学合作，招收14 - 18岁的儿童：All圣徒Catholic High School，Halewood Academy，柯克比High School，Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School，Prescot School。这是在英格兰西北部一个社会贫困程度特别高的地区，研究表明人们对气候变化不太感兴趣。与学校的联系已经通过EHU的教育学院建立。所有学校都同意参加。我们将与年轻人合作，设计基于创意艺术和流行内容的独特方案，使他们更充分地参与气候变化的关键方面。该方法利用了舒尔茨关于情感联系与自然的开创性工作，以及影响情感联系和承诺改变的内隐态度的工作。所有年轻人在开始该计划之前都将接受一系列测试（9月6日），包括测量对碳足迹的内隐态度（使用我们特别设计的碳隐含关联测试），评估有关可持续发展的知识，对气候变化的情感感受等，然后，我们将与他们在艺术合作研讨会超过5周;每个研讨会将是关于气候变化的不同方面使用情感参与创意艺术-戏剧，艺术和创意写作。我们将使用“照片声音”来捕捉年轻人在探索与气候变化有关的问题时的感受-这些照片随后将用于解释主题和叙述，为年轻人之间的讨论奠定基础。我们将使用以艺术为基础的评估，包括“表演性探究”来评估以戏剧为基础的活动。他们将产生所有评估性和反思性的材料。这整个过程将被记录在电影中使用基于实践的反思的方法来探索态度变化的路径中的阻力和偶然性，以及它呈现给基于实践的研究者的偶然性和机会。然后，年轻人将重复测试以衡量变化（10月11日）。报告和纪录片将于11月8日完成。这部电影将作为一个模型，可以做什么，记录这一变化的过程。11月8日至12月31日期间首次公开发布。