Future Voices of Scottish Science Fiction and Fantasy

苏格兰科幻小说和奇幻未来的声音

• 批准号: AH/W007045/1
• 负责人: Dimitra Fimi
• 金额: $ 2.85万
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW007045%2F1
• 关键词: Future; Voices; Scottish; Science; Fiction

The Future Voices of Scottish Science Fiction and Fantasy Network will privilege under-represented Scottish voices of Science Fiction and Fantasy (SFF) working across different media (literature, gaming, film, art), with an emphasis on BAME and LGBTQ+ communities as well as practitioners with disabilities. In these dramatic times, we ask how creative practitioners imagine future worlds and respond to rapidly-changing global circumstances (e.g. the COVID-19 pandemic), concerns and anxieties (e.g. as expressed in the Me Too or Black Lives Matter movements) through SFF writing/art/creativity. The Network will be the first step towards building a strong collaboration between academics, creative practitioners, fans, and stakeholders, with a view to contributing to the agenda and conversations leading up to Worldcon 2024 (the annual international gathering of SFF fans and creative practitioners since 1939) in Glasgow. The Network will analyse the ways in which contemporary SFF practitioners visualize the future, build worlds, and bring their diverse voices to momentous global changes through the lens of SFF creativity. Concurrently, the Network will examine how the work and voices of these practitioners and their fans can shape and be shaped by current theoretical debates on intersectionality, inclusivity, and diversity.The Network will organise:1. a series of 4 activities: 2 online panels and 2 roundtable discussions over one year, each followed by 2. curated theory-informed written responses from emerging SFF academics, published online, open access, and 3. follow-up asynchronous discussions by practitioners, fans, and academics using the Discord server of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic (CFF).These activities will be hosted by the CFF at the University of Glasgow, the Glasgow 2024 Worldcon, and Staffordshire University.The themes of the activities, each featuring 4-5 SFF practitioners moderated by an academic, will be:- Panel 1: Inclusive worldbuilding in SFF across different media- Roundtable 1: Representation of change and the future in SFF worlds and narratives- Panel 2: Representation of social issues in SFF worlds and narratives- Roundtable 2: Challenging the past (canon and history) in SFF narrativesPanels will include short presentations followed by a Q&A with attendees; round-tables will begin with short statements and will facilitate a more dialogic approach to the theme between speakers, before inviting questions from attendees. These two formats will facilitate both presenting and debating new ideas among creative practitioners, academics, and fans. Each activity will be presented via webinar, live-streamed and captioned in order to allow accessible engagement from a larger international audience, and recorded so that it can be serve as a resource in the future.After each activity an academic will respond with a written piece bringing together practitioners' perspectives and current critical/theoretical frameworks. This response will be: 1) attempting to nuance the issues raised by each preceding activity; 2) aiming to push the boundaries of critical/theoretical intersectional SFF research via learning from practitioners' and fans' own artistic choices, concerns, and preferences. These pieces will be published on the network website as an open access resource, inviting further responses, tapping into the existing pool of academics, SFF practitioners and fans invested and actively participating in CFF and Glasgow Worldcon activities (both have large mailing lists, very active social media, and highly engaged online communities via Discord). After all activities are completed, the Network will publish written outcomes online, outlining core guidelines surrounding SFF and diversity compiling the core arguments and debates from each panel. The Glasgow Worldcon is committed to considering these recommendations as they plan their programming and protocols.

苏格兰科幻小说和幻想网络的未来之声将优先考虑代表性不足的苏格兰科幻小说和幻想（SFF）的声音，这些声音在不同的媒体（文学，游戏，电影，艺术）中工作，重点是BAME和LGBTQ+社区以及残疾人从业者。在这些戏剧性的时代，我们问创意从业者如何想象未来世界，并通过SFF写作/艺术/创造力应对快速变化的全球环境（例如COVID-19大流行），担忧和焦虑（例如Me Too或Black Lives Matter运动）。该网络将是在学术界，创意从业者，粉丝和利益相关者之间建立强大合作的第一步，以期为2024年在格拉斯哥举行的Worldcon（自1939年以来SFF粉丝和创意从业者的年度国际聚会）的议程和对话做出贡献。该网络将分析当代SFF从业者如何想象未来，建立世界，并通过SFF创造力的透镜将其不同的声音带入重大的全球变化。同时，该网络将研究这些从业者及其粉丝的工作和声音如何塑造当前关于交叉性、包容性和多样性的理论辩论，以及如何被这些理论辩论所塑造。一系列4项活动：一年内举行2次在线小组讨论和2次圆桌讨论，每次讨论之后举行2次。策划新兴的SFF学者的理论知情的书面答复，在线出版，开放获取，和3。由从业者、爱好者和学者使用幻想与奇幻中心（CFF）的Discord服务器进行后续异步讨论。这些活动将由CFF在格拉斯哥大学、格拉斯哥2024年世界大会和斯塔福德郡大学主办。活动的主题是：-小组1：在不同的媒体上建立包容性的SFF世界-圆桌会议1：在SFF世界和叙述中表现变化和未来-小组2：在SFF世界和叙述中表现社会问题-圆桌会议2：回顾过去（经典和历史）在SFF叙述中小组讨论将包括简短的演讲，然后与与会者进行问答;圆桌会议开始时将作简短发言，并将促进发言者之间就主题采取更对话的方式，然后邀请与会者提问。这两种形式将有助于在创意从业者、学者和粉丝中展示和讨论新想法。每一项活动都将通过网络研讨会、直播和字幕进行展示，以便更广泛的国际观众参与，并记录下来，以便将来作为资源。每次活动结束后，学术界将发表一篇文章，汇集从业者的观点和当前的批评/理论框架。该响应将是：1）试图细微差别的问题所提出的每一个先前的活动; 2）旨在推动临界/理论交叉SFF研究的边界，通过从从业者和球迷自己的艺术选择，关注和偏好学习。这些作品将作为开放获取资源发布在网络网站上，邀请进一步的回应，利用现有的学者，SFF从业者和粉丝投资并积极参与CFF和格拉斯哥Worldcon活动（两者都有大型邮件列表，非常活跃的社交媒体，以及通过Discord高度参与的在线社区）。在所有活动完成后，该网络将在网上公布书面成果，概述围绕SFF和多样性的核心指导方针，汇编每个小组的核心论点和辩论。格拉斯哥世界大会致力于在规划其方案和协议时考虑这些建议。