The Art of Earth Building: placing relief models in the culture of modern geography

土楼艺术：将浮雕模型置于现代地理学文化中

• 批准号: 2367111
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2367111
• 关键词: Art; Earth; Building; placing; relief

The physical relief model is the central object of this project, which seeks to offer an understanding of its place withinhistories of geographical knowledge production, scientific education and public communication. Through engagementwith archival sources, principally those held by the Royal Geographical Society, a historical geography of relief modelswill be developed which speaks up for their uniqueness as alluring and charismatic proponents of geographical learningand research, often now forgotten or unnoticed relics of Geography departments. In this way, this research will contributeto existing literature on histories of learning and knowledge production in disciplinary geography, its material cultureand embodied practices. My background in Geography, especially with interests in historical geography and landscapestudies emerging from my final years as an undergraduate and time as a Masters student, has brought me well-positionedto this studentship, with a familiarity and enthusiasm for the subject matter at hand and a sense of potential themes anddebates this research may contribute to. This research will also be greatly enabled by the host academic communityspanning geographic, earth and environmental sciences at the University of Glasgow.Method/AimThrough creative and critical engagements with archival material, this research seeks to develop an understanding of therelief model within historical geographies of disciplinary research and pedagogy over the last century. This research willmake use of a collection of 24 plaster relief models held by the Royal Geographical Society and originally made byThomas Bayley as photo-illustrative material for Professor L. Dudley Stamp's The Earths Crust (1951). Central tounderstanding these materials will be the use of a collection of correspondence and papers from Dudley Stamp, held bythe University of Sussex archives. In the first year of study, a survey of British university geography departments andsocieties will be conducted to ascertain the extent and purpose of relief models present throughout the country. Thispromises extensive avenues for further potential archival work. There are considerable further holdings from the RGS,and the Science Museum Group.Literature/ImpactExisting literature on the History of Science and the History of Geography outlined in the synopsis of this studentshippresents scope for developing and widening an understanding of the relief model within these two broad themes. A studyof the relief model provides a rare engagement and appreciation of 3D representations in scientific practice, where 2Drepresentations tend to take precedence (Baker, 2004). In this vein, the relief model has been an overlooked object ofstudy within histories of science, where it can shed light on similarly neglected aspects of scientific study and learningsuch as the relationship between disciplinary and popular knowledges, the role and importance of creativity withinscience, and the practice of physical engagement within knowledge production (Secord, 2004; Shapin, 1989; Chadarevianand Hopwood, 2004). This research also seeks to extend our understanding of the relief model within histories ofGeography beyond its prior promulgations as cartographic representations, or military applications (Pearson, 2002,2015). The relief model can contribute to literature on the material and visual cultures of geographical research andpedagogy, where it can be considered as part of the greater visual economy of cartographic production. The craft ofmodel-making can be understood as an extension of cartographic practices, which traditionally the geographer must havehad in their skillset (Wooldridge & East, 1951).

该项目的中心目标是实物浮雕模型，它试图通过地理知识生产、科学教育和公众交流的故事来了解它的位置。通过与档案来源，主要是那些由皇家地理学会，历史地理学的救济modelswill开发，讲了他们的独特性作为诱人的和魅力的支持者的地理学习和研究，现在往往被遗忘或忽视的文物地理部门。通过这种方式，本研究将有助于现有文献的学习和知识生产的历史，在学科地理，其物质文化和体现的做法。我在地理学的背景，特别是在历史地理学的兴趣，并从我的最后几年作为一个本科生和时间作为一个硕士研究生新兴的研究，使我很好地定位到这个学生的身份，熟悉和热情的主题在手和潜在的主题和辩论的感觉，这项研究可能有助于。这项研究也将极大地使主办学术界跨越地理，地球和环境科学在格拉斯哥大学。方法/AimThrough创造性和关键的参与与档案材料，这项研究旨在发展的历史地理学学科研究和教育学在过去的世纪内的relief模型的理解。这项研究将利用收集的24个石膏浮雕模型由皇家地理学会举行，最初由托马斯贝利作为照片说明材料教授L。达德利·斯坦普的《地壳》（1951）。理解这些材料的中心将是使用由苏塞克斯大学档案馆保存的达德利邮票的信件和论文集。在研究的第一年，英国大学地理系和社会的调查将进行，以确定目前在全国各地的救济模式的程度和目的。这为进一步的潜在档案工作提供了广泛的途径。有相当多的进一步持有从RGS，和科学博物馆组。文学/ImpactExisting文献对科学史和地理学史概述本studentshippresented范围内的发展和扩大这两个广泛的主题内的救济模型的理解。对浮雕模型的研究提供了在科学实践中对3D表示的罕见参与和欣赏，其中2D表示往往优先（Baker，2004）。在这种情况下，浮雕模型一直是科学史中一个被忽视的研究对象，它可以揭示科学研究和学习中类似被忽视的方面，如学科知识和流行知识之间的关系，科学中创造力的作用和重要性，以及知识生产中物理参与的实践（Secord，2004; Shapin，1989; Chadarevianand霍普伍德，2004）。这项研究还试图扩展我们对地理学历史中的浮雕模型的理解，超越其先前作为地图表示或军事应用的颁布（Pearson，2002，2015）。浮雕模型可以为地理研究和教育学的物质和视觉文化文献做出贡献，在那里它可以被认为是制图生产的更大视觉经济的一部分。模型制作工艺可以理解为制图实践的延伸，传统上地理学家必须在他们的技能中拥有（Wooldridge & East，1951）。