The Making and Re-Making of Port-Sunlight. Studying a Community in Flux: A Sense of Time and Place

阳光港成立于1888年，当时是一个劳动模范村，为利弗兄弟的肥皂厂(当时的总部也设在那里)的员工提供住所。阳光港位于威拉尔半岛--这里有一个住宅区、一个主要的美术馆、一座剧院、一座博物馆和900多栋建筑。阳光港代表着对企业委托的工业住宅进行的一次引人入胜的历史社会实验，如今它是一个拥有约2000人的村落式社区。该项目是一项基于经验和理论的研究，研究阳光港村的创始人是如何构思港口阳光村的，随后文化专业人士(如摄影师、建筑师、规划师)、当代居民和游客将其可视化。这个项目也有兴趣捕捉这个社区正在发生的主要社会变化的当代动画。研究可能涉及以下三个领域：1.对村庄的平面图、照片、素描、模型和地图的档案分析，将揭示随着时间的推移，社会空间被想象/重新想象的一些方式。研究人员将在港口阳光博物馆策划他们的作品公开展览；2.对最近撰写的港口阳光村信托基金的战略计划进行政策分析，这一时期将对该村的未来做出关键决定。分析将侧重于空间决策的实际政治；3.深入研究村庄公共领域的民族志，包括考虑不同时期对地方及其人民的过去、现在和未来的影响

Port Sunlight was founded in 1888 as a model workers' village to house employees of the Lever Brothers' soap factory (then also headquartered there). Located on the Wirral Peninsula - and home to a residential site, a major art gallery, a theatre, a museum, and over 900 listed buildings - Port Sunlight represents a fascinating historical social experiment in corporate-commissioned industrial housing that is today a village-style community of circa 2000 people.The project is an empirically-grounded, theoretically-informed study of how Port Sunlight Village was conceived of by its founder, subsequently visualised by cultural professionals (such as photographers, architects, planners), and contemporary residents and visitors. This project is also interested to capture the contemporary animation of the major social changes underway in this community.Research is likely to address the following three areas:1. Archival Analysis of the plans, photographs, drawings, models and maps of the village that will reveal some of the ways in which the social space has been imagined/re-imagined over time. The researcher will curate a public exhibition of their work at Port Sunlight Museum;2. A policy analysis of the recently-authored Port Sunlight Village Trust's Strategic Plan, in a period when crucial decisions concerning the future of the village will be made. Analysis will focus on the practical politics of decision-making with respect to space;3. An in-depth ethnographic study of the public realm of the village, including considerations of the effects of different time periods on the past, present and future of the place and its people