Empowering climate action through participatory filmmaking

这个博士项目将使用基于社区的参与式纪录片制作，让公众参与到对气候危机的解释和表现中来，在一段固定的时间内追踪这些活动如何改变人们的观念，促进态度、行为和实践的变化。博士学位将为如何实现理解气候变化的创造性和个人相关方法制定一个框架，在艺术背景下将理论研究和实证研究结合起来。研究背景视觉媒体在形成对气候危机的理解方面发挥着核心作用。近年来，从主流电影和电视作品到更边缘的实验电影和激进主义视频项目，环境问题的纪录片呈现出上升趋势。然而，尽管气候传播方法的扩散，但尚不清楚从这些产品中获得的知识在多大程度上导致有意义的行动和态度和行为的重大变化。在气候艺术的背景下，从业者寻求创造个人有意义的表现与更工具化的方法之间存在紧张关系，这种方法试图故意影响态度和行为的变化。虽然震惊、愤怒和恐惧在应对气候危机的信息传递技巧中经常被使用，但最近的研究表明，这些情绪在应对长期挑战方面有着复杂的——有时甚至是违反直觉的——作用。深刻和变革性的变革需要强大的集体意志、积极参与和持续发展的势头。与传统的气候变化信息的单向流动不同，社区参与的生产可以通过利用相关的故事和相关的生活经验来培养更大的能动性。

This PhD project will use community-based participatory documentary filmmaking to engage publics in the interpretation and representation of the climate crisis, tracking over a fixed period how these activities shift perceptions and facilitate changes in attitude, behaviours and practices. The PhD will map out a framework for how to achieve creative and personally relevant approaches for understanding climate change, bringing together theoretical research and empirical study within an artistic context.Research contextVisual media play a central role in shaping understandings of the climate crisis. Documentary representations of environmental issues have been on the rise in recent years, from mainstream film and television productions to more marginal experimental cinema and activist video projects. However, despite the proliferation of climate communication methods, it is unclear to what extent knowledge gained from these productions leads to meaningful action and significant changes in attitude and behaviour. In the context of climate art, there is a tension between practitioners seeking to create personally meaningful representations versus a more instrumentalised approach that seeks to deliberately effect change in attitudes and behaviour.Whilst shock, anger and fear are frequently leant upon in messaging techniques around the climate crisis, recent research has shown that these emotions have a complex - and sometimes counterintuitive - role in tackling long-term challenges. Deep and transformative change requires strong collective will, active participation and momentum to sustain itself. In contrast to the one-way flow of information typical of traditional messaging around climate change, participatory production involving communities may nurture greater agency by harnessing relatable stories and relevant lived experience.