NARRASCAPE: Urban Environment as Narrative System in the UK and China

NARRASCAPE：英国和中国的城市环境作为叙事系统

• 批准号: AH/F016395/1
• 负责人: Francois Penz
• 金额: $ 6.29万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF016395%2F1
• 关键词: NARRASCAPE; Urban; Environment; Narrative; System

This project will focus on the central theme of Urban Narrative Environment, seeking to introduce recent research findings on narrative environment into the field of urban studies and to establish an international research network on this subject.Today we live in a world of cities: almost 50% of world population inhabits cities (89.7% in UK). 'It is vital that we understand the impact of this urban growth on people and the environment, as the links between architecture and society become both more complex and more fragile.' An understanding of urban conditions, including the conflicts, values and memory as well as human experience of them, necessitates multidisciplinary approaches and offers a challenge to the arts and humanities.Narrative is integral to human experience: on the one hand, we live in a world abounding with stories of various forms; on the other hand, narrative is one of the fundamental ways we organize and understand the world. Narrative is one of the prior schemes that are 'actively used to organize and interpret a person's encounter with the environment, both internal and external.' Narrative offers a distinctive approach to understand how our knowledge and experience of the environment is constructed and in return, how to organize the environment that conforms to human experience and memory and facilitates human interactions with the environment. This project will examine urban environments through investigations into the interaction between temporally structured narratives and their spatial configurations, in other words, to investigate how 'space becomes charged and responsive to the movements of time, plot and history.' This project aims at revealing the hidden 'narrative landscape' in urban environments as a collage of narrative strata corresponding to the natural ways of experiencing an environment, namely gaze, route and survey modes. This 'narrascape' provides a particular layer to analyze and assess the values, organizations and representations of urban space. The concept and methodology of 'narrascape' will be developed through four multidisciplinary workshops with separate but correlated case studies. Digital media, especially moving images and virtual reality, with their extraordinary power in representing (and creating) human experience, will be employed and explored as the primary tools in presenting and developing urban 'narrascape'.The Digital Studio is part of the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge. It is directed by Dr. François Penz and has for years successfully led EPSRC, AHRC and EU funded researches into narrative organization of space, non-linear narrative forms and the expressive use of digital media to facilitate design and communications on architectural and urban issues. This project seeks to extend Digital Studio's investigation into urban studies and to examine previous research outputs in the urban contexts of UK and China.There is growing interest for UK and China to carry out research collaborations on the global issues of urban environments and urban conditions. The Martin Centre has strong track record of collaborative projects with Chinese universities on architectural and urban studies. This project will initiate a new network to bring together researchers and professionals from both countries to discuss and explore the narrative values, organizations and representations of urban environment. This project will consist of workshops, conference, translation and publication works, and dissemination activities. The foci are the workshops on the case studies of three historic cities: Cambridge in the UK, Nanjing and Changsha in China. Each case study addresses a sub-theme of 'narrascape'. Through these workshops, this project seeks to advance our understanding of urban narrative environment and to establish a network that will foster future research and practice opportunities.

本项目将围绕城市叙事环境这一中心主题，将叙事环境的最新研究成果引入城市研究领域，并建立一个国际性的研究网络。今天，我们生活在一个城市的世界：世界上近50%的人口居住在城市（英国为89.7%）。“我们必须了解这种城市增长对人和环境的影响，因为建筑与社会之间的联系变得更加复杂和脆弱。“对城市状况的理解，包括冲突、价值观和记忆，以及人类对它们的体验，需要多学科的方法，并对艺术和人文学科提出挑战。叙事是人类体验的组成部分：一方面，我们生活在一个充满各种形式故事的世界;另一方面，叙事是我们组织和理解世界的基本方式之一。叙事是一种优先机制，它被积极地用于组织和解释一个人与内部和外部环境的遭遇。叙事提供了一种独特的方法来理解我们对环境的知识和经验是如何构建的，反过来，如何组织符合人类经验和记忆的环境，并促进人类与环境的互动。本项目将通过研究时间结构化叙事与空间结构之间的相互作用来考察城市环境，换句话说，研究空间如何对时间，情节和历史的运动进行充电和响应。这个项目旨在揭示隐藏在城市环境中的“叙事景观”，作为与体验环境的自然方式相对应的叙事层次的拼贴，即凝视，路线和调查模式。这种“叙事景观”提供了一个特殊的层面来分析和评估城市空间的价值、组织和表现。“叙事景观”的概念和方法将通过四个多学科的研讨会与独立的，但相关的案例研究。数字媒体，特别是动态图像和虚拟现实，以其在表现（和创造）人类经验方面的非凡力量，将被用作和探索呈现和发展城市“叙事景观”的主要工具。数字工作室是剑桥大学建筑系马丁建筑与城市研究中心的一部分。它由François Penz博士指导，多年来成功领导了EPSRC，AHRC和欧盟资助的空间叙事组织，非线性叙事形式和数字媒体的表达性使用研究，以促进建筑和城市问题的设计和沟通。该项目旨在将Digital Studio的研究扩展到城市研究领域，并在英国和中国的城市背景下考察以往的研究成果。英国和中国对在城市环境和城市状况等全球性问题上开展研究合作的兴趣日益浓厚。马丁中心与中国大学在建筑和城市研究方面有着良好的合作项目记录。该项目将启动一个新的网络，将两国的研究人员和专业人士聚集在一起，讨论和探索城市环境的叙事价值、组织和表现。该项目将包括讲习班、会议、翻译和出版工作以及传播活动。重点是三个历史名城的案例研究工作坊：英国的剑桥，中国的南京和长沙。每一个案例研究都涉及到一个“叙事景观”的子主题。通过这些研讨会，该项目旨在促进我们对城市叙事环境的理解，并建立一个网络，以促进未来的研究和实践机会。