Living in a Material World: A cross-disciplinary location-based enquiry into the perfomativity of emptiness

对景观和环境的创造性和批判性反应已经出现在艺术和人文学科之外，但跨学科的合作仍然很少，方法论方法也受到学科的约束。这一系列实验性的、以地点为基础的工作坊将与一系列学科、艺术和社区组织合作，以提供一个竞技场，在这个竞技场中，景观和环境的方法可以被比较、结合并置于批判性的反思关系中。|地方|空间研究主题在布里斯托大学（由马丁白色教授与RCUK研究员乔卡拉瑟斯博士和安吉拉皮奇尼博士领导）和同事在英格兰西南部和威尔士。研究主题的参与者来自一系列学科，探索场所和空间的概念-真实的和想象的，物理的和虚拟的，自然的和构造的，历史的和当代的-作为“表演”：换句话说，如何积极参与和实践的空间创造了我们的物质经验的场所。通过表演性来理解场所和空间，突出了“场所”的主动、多元和不断变化的本质。对于网络，我们特别感兴趣的是调查围绕空间和地点的辩论与那些表征景观和环境的辩论之间的关系。为此，我们设计了一系列基于位置的研讨会，以促进跨学科的方法来理解“景观”作为实践场所的网络。特别是，我们专注于“空”，特别是那些被视为被遗弃，退化，消失，短暂，未标记但物质丰富的地点。这一重点涉及景观和环境往往被重视或贬值，被记住和被遗忘的方式，使他们能够质疑和复杂化关于“空空间”的假设，并追踪创造“空”的文化配置。因此，“空”集中研究景观和环境的积极构成和表现的规范问题。研讨会将提供跨学科的研究方法相结合的范围，从哲学探究到实证调查，从创造性的文化干预到传统的实地考察。高等教育、专业艺术和公共部门社区工作者都将派代表参加。利用活动前分发的原始材料，参与者将利用三个为期两天的研讨会，通过场所和空间的表演性来研究景观和环境。由英格兰西部的布里斯托和阿伯里斯特威斯的大学主办，每个活动都将根据不同的议程和传统进行。研讨会将与反思性专题讨论会配对，以便将个人和团体聚集在一起，为研讨会的结果提供一个锚点。个人将分享专业知识领域的具体目标质疑学科和方法的界限，因为它们涉及到景观设计师和环境。尽管这些活动是临时性的和推测性的，但将在制定时加以讨论，以促进实践、观点和产出的交流。专题讨论会活动的高潮将是合作介绍，目的是证明跨学科方法的潜力，并强调进一步工作的领域。由于网络计划的实验性和创新性，整个研究项目的规划不是优先事项，但预计每个地点都将激发可传播给各种受众和社区参与者的材料，并将创造一个新的概念空间，在其中开发新的观点和做法以及地点和空间。

Creative and critical responses to landscape and environment have emerged from across and beyond the Arts and Humanities, yet collaboration across the disciplines remains rare and methodological approaches disciplinary-bound. This series of experimental, location-based workshops will engage with a range of disciplines, arts and community organisations in order to provide an arena in which approaches to landscape and environment can be compared, combined and placed in critically reflective relationships.The Network responds to discussions held between participants in the emergent Performativity| Place | Space research theme at the University of Bristol (led by Professor Martin White with RCUK Fellows Dr Jo Carruthers and Dr Angela Piccini) and colleagues in the southwest of England and in Wales. Participants in the research theme, drawn from a range of disciplines, explore notions of place and space - real and imagined, physical and virtual, natural and constructed, historical and contemporary - as 'performative': In other words, how the active engagement with and practising of space creates our material experiences of palce. Understanding place and space through performativity highlights the active, multiple and ever-changing nature of 'location'. For the network, we are specifically interested in investigating the relationships between debates around space and place and those that have characterised landscape and environment.To that end we have devised a series of location-based workshops to foster cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding 'landscapes' as networks of practised places. IN particular, we focus on 'emptiness', specifically locations that are seen to be abandoned, degraded, disapeared, transitory, unmarked yet which are materially rich. This focus engages with the ways in which landscape and environment are often valued or devalued, remembered and forgotten, enabling them to contest and complicate assumptions regarding 'empty space' as well as trace the cultural configurations that create 'emptiness'. 'Emptiness' thus focuses resea\rch questions on the specifications of the active constitution and performance of landscape and environment.Workshops will provide scope for combining research methods across the disciplines represented, from philosophical enquiry to empirical investigation and from creative cultural interventions to traditional fieldwork. Higher education, professional arts and public-sector community workers will all be represented. Using source materials circulated before the event, participants will use the three two-day workshops to investigate landscape and environment through the performativities of place and space. Hosted by the universities of Bristol, West of England and Aberystwyth, each event will be shaped according to differing agendas and traditions.Theworkshops will be paired with reflective symposia in order to bring together individuals and groups to provide an anchor-point for workshops findings. Individuals will share areas of expertise with the specific aim of questioning disciplinary and methodological boundaries as they pertain to landscaper and environment. Although provisional and speculative, activites will be discussed as they are formulated, facilitating transferral of practices, perspectives and outputs. The symposium events will culminate in collaborative presentations that aim to evidence the potential of cross-disciplinary approaches and highlight areas for further work. Due to the experimental and innovative nature of the Network scheme, the planning of the full research projects is not a priority, but it is expected that each location will inspire material that can be disseminated to a range of audiences and stakehodlers, and that a new conceptual space will be created in which novel perspectives and practices and place and space will deve