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.

苏格兰科幻和奇幻未来之声网络将优先考虑在不同媒体(文学、游戏、电影、艺术)上工作的未被充分代表的苏格兰科幻和奇幻之声(SFF)，重点是BAME和LGBTQ+社区以及残疾人从业者。在这个戏剧性的时代，我们问创造性的实践者如何通过SFF的写作/艺术/创造力来想象未来世界，并对快速变化的全球环境(例如，新冠肺炎大流行)、关切和焦虑(例如，在Me Too或Black Lives Matter运动中表达的那样)做出反应。该网络将是在学术界、创意实践者、粉丝和利益相关者之间建立强有力的合作的第一步，以期为2024年世界电影节(自1939年以来，SFF粉丝和创意实践者的年度国际聚会)在格拉斯哥举行之前的议程和对话做出贡献。该网络将分析当代SFF实践者如何展望未来，建设世界，并通过SFF创造力的镜头将他们的不同声音带到重大的全球变化中。同时，该网络将研究这些从业者和他们的粉丝的工作和声音如何塑造和被当前关于交叉性、包容性和多样性的理论辩论所塑造。该网络将组织：1.一系列4个活动：2个在线小组和2个圆桌讨论，为期一年，每个活动2.来自SFF新兴学者的精心策划的理论知情的书面回复，在线发布，开放获取，以及3.从业者、粉丝和学者使用幻想和神奇中心(CFF)的DISCORD服务器进行后续的异步讨论。这些活动将由格拉斯哥大学的CFF主办，格拉斯哥2024世界大会活动的主题，每个有4-5名SFF从业者由一名学者主持，将是：-小组1：在不同媒体上SFF的包容性世界建设-圆桌会议1：在SFF世界和叙事中代表变化和未来-小组2：在SFF世界和叙事中代表社会问题-圆桌会议2：在SFF叙事中挑战过去(佳能和历史)小组将包括简短的演讲，随后与与会者进行问答；圆桌会议将以简短的发言开始，并将促进发言者之间就这一主题采取更具对话性的方式，然后邀请与会者提问。这两种形式将有助于在创意从业者、学者和粉丝之间展示和辩论新想法。每项活动都将通过网络研讨会进行介绍、现场直播和配文，以便更多的国际观众能够接触到，并进行记录，以便将来作为资源。在每项活动之后，一名学者将以书面文章回应，汇集实践者的观点和当前的批评/理论框架。这一回应将是：1)尝试细致入微地区分之前每一次活动提出的问题；2)旨在通过学习从业者和粉丝自己的艺术选择、关注和偏好，推动批评/理论交叉SFF研究的边界。这些文章将作为开放获取资源发布在网络网站上，邀请更多回复，利用现有的学者、SFF从业者和粉丝池，投资并积极参与CFF和格拉斯哥世界大会的活动(两者都有大量的邮件列表，非常活跃的社交媒体，以及通过不和谐的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，概述关于森林论坛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他们的节目和协议时考虑这些建议。