Morecambe Bay Timescapes; Engaging Young People in Visualising Coastal Futures

该项目旨在帮助年轻人了解气候变化将如何塑造莫克姆贝湾和居住在那里的社区的未来。通过汇集过去和未来沿海变化的信息以及个人历史，该项目将反映替代未来和不同方式，以建立社区对环境挑战的准备。目前的预测显示，海平面上升和极端天气事件将对世界各地的沿海地区产生重大影响。然而，个别沿海社区的具体情况将有很大不同，很大程度上将取决于当地的地质、气候、基础设施和社区的准备情况。提供了介绍区域风险评估和战略的海岸线管理计划，但这些文件中使用的专门格式和语言使其实际上无法向公众开放。此外，这些文件无视沿海社区的观点，以及过去受洪水和天气事件影响的人们所形成的默契。收集本地化的知识并让普通公众能够阅读，这对于了解特定地区气候变化的影响以及为当地政策和公众参与决策提供信息都是至关重要的。在这个项目中，兰开斯特圣母学院、莫克姆贝海湾学院、卡恩福斯高中和兰开斯特和莫克姆贝学院的学生将与设计、计算和环境科学的研究人员合作，基于一种创新的跨学科方法，将预测模型、公民科学和民族志方法结合在一起，创建特定地点的沿海过去和未来的可视化。这些可视化将以立体摄影的卷轴形式呈现，并伴随着杂志(也由学生制作)讲述沿海过去和未来的故事。他们将根据项目第一阶段收集的数据，揭示研究人员和年轻人共同制作的故事、问题和图像。每本杂志都会有一张地图，显示立体望远镜的沿海位置，用来使可视化栩栩如生。当通过相应的立体显微镜观察时，打印在卷轴上的图像将显示为三维可视化。传感器还将激活音频轨道，为观众提供声音、故事和关键问题。这些视听《时间逃脱》将在海岸期货节期间作为特定地点的装置展出，使公众能够通过海岸变化的镜头来观看周围的环境。这是一种创新的方法，使学生能够设计和制作用于创建身临其境的可视化效果的工具。该项目将立体观察的光学和机械工具用于一个新颖的、创造性的目的。不需要编程、专有软件或昂贵的设备，年轻人将完全控制整个过程。作为海岸期货节的一部分，学生们将参与一系列的演讲和活动，在这些活动中，他们将与当地议会和环境组织分享他们的设想，这些组织包括环境局、西北海岸组织和论坛、海舍姆遗产中心、兰开夏郡档案馆和兰开斯特市议会。这次活动将促进就当地未来以及公共和专业团体以及社区成员在规划应对和适应气候变化方面可以发挥的作用进行对话，为年轻人如何在这些进程中发挥积极作用指明了道路。

This project aims to help young people understand how climate change will shape the future of Morecambe Bay and the communities that inhabit it. By bringing together information on past and future coastal changes, and personal histories, this project will reflect on alternative futures and different ways to build community preparedness to environmental challenges.Current predictions show the significant impact that sea level rise and extreme weather events will have on coastal areas worldwide. However, what exactly will happen to individual coastal communities will vary greatly, and will largely depend on local geology, climate, infrastructures and community preparedness. Shoreline management plans presenting regional risk assessment and strategies are available, but the specialised formats and the language used in these documents make them effectively inaccessible to the public. In addition, these documents disregard the perspectives of coastal communities, and the tacit knowledge developed by people who have been affected by flooding and weather events in the past. Collecting localised knowledge and making it readable to the lay public is essential both to understand the impact of climate change in specific places and to inform local policies and public participation in decision making.In this project, students at Lancaster Our Lady's College, Morecambe Bay Academy, Carnforth High School, and Lancaster and Morecambe College will work with researchers in design, computing, and environmental science to create visualisations of place-specific coastal pasts and futures based on an innovative interdisciplinary methodology that brings together predictive models, citizen science, and ethnographic approaches. These visualisations will be presented as reels of stereographs accompanied by zines (also produced by the students) telling stories of coastal pasts and futures. They will reveal stories, questions, and images co-produced by researchers and young people, based on data collected in the first stage of the project. Each zine will feature a map indicating the coastal location of the stereoscope to use for bringing the visualisations to life. When looked at through the corresponding stereoscope, the images printed on the reel will appear as tri-dimensional visualisations. A sensor will also activate an audio track with sounds, stories, and critical questions for the audience. These audio-visual 'Timescapes' will be displayed during a Coastal Futures Festival as site-specific installations, which will enable members of the public to look at their surroundings through the lenses of costal change. This is an innovative approach, which enables students to design and produce the tools that are used to create immersive visualisations. The project appropriates the optical and mechanical tools of stereoscopy for a novel, creative purpose. No programming, proprietary software, or expensive equipment will be necessary, and young people will have full control over the whole process. As part of the Coastal Futures Festival, students will be engaged in a programme of talks and events in which they will share their visualisations with local councils, and environmental groups, including Environment Agency, North West Coastal Group & Forum, Heysham Heritage Centre, Lancashire Archives, and Lancaster City Council. The event will act as a catalyst for conversations on local futures and the role that public and professional bodies and members of the community can play in planning for response and adaptation to climate change, showing clear pathways for how young people can play an active role in these processes.