Learning to Live with Water: Flood histories, Environmental Change, Remembrance and Resilience

洪水和“与环境变化共存”的问题在研究和政治议程上占据重要地位——在皮特对2007年洪水的评估之后，社区主导的适应规划成为英国洪水风险管理战略的关键要素。这就要求社区从过去的洪水中吸取教训，对洪水历史有强烈的认识，有风险意识，知道如何与洪水共存。虽然有相当多的研究努力来确定环境和社会科学可以为理解洪水历史和环境变化带来什么，但很少有研究表明艺术和人文科学研究可以为洪水历史、潮湿景观及其环境变化的研究带来什么。因此，该研究网络旨在通过一个具有国际意义的优秀跨学科和跨专业网络，建立独特、创新和引人入胜的艺术和人文研究视角，研究水淹景观及其环境变化。子目标包括关注湿地景观研究的理论和概念基础，研究不同创造性实践在实现关于洪水历史的非正式知识方面的变化和潜在作用，以及在不断变化的洪水风险情景中将这一研究应用于社会学习和建立社区恢复力的新背景。这一网络将通过一项综合活动方案加以推动和维持。核心活动将是三场从“正式”到“非正式”的研讨会，并以一场创新的生活洪水历史会议告终：“洪水与未来：学习生活”，将新的研究探索与表演和创意艺术结合起来。在整个网络研究计划中，该项目还将通过博客与更广泛的国内和国际艺术与人文学科研究人员进行探索。网络讨论以探讨洪水历史和环境变化的研讨会开始：水景观和洪水生活的理论和概念框架。该项目旨在将文化地理、历史和遗产领域的艺术和人文研究人员与其他学科的研究人员结合起来，探索对潮湿和偶尔被洪水淹没的景观的理解。第二个研讨会的重点是对洪水遗产的理解，并将洪水档案作为探索已知恢复途径的资源。第三个工作坊将考虑洪水故事/关于洪水的叙述，以及这些故事/叙述如何带来关于社会学习和洪水复原力的新理解。最后一个AHRC网络活动将是洪水历史会议：“学习生活：洪水与未来”。这将侧重于发展从前三次研讨会演变而来的关键研究主题。预计这些将围绕可持续湿景观的研究探索：艺术和人文学科中洪水历史和环境变化研究的理论/概念基础；研究洪水记忆、档案和助记术的经验、记忆、物质化、形式化和增强的变化方式；洪水记忆研究——发展社区的社会学习以增强洪水恢复力研究洪水和多样性——可持续社区、代际交流；文化多样性；研究洪水和创造力：探索个人和社区管理洪水和洪水风险的创造性策略；研究洪水和连通性：探索洪水风险社区之间的地方到全球的联系。研究成果包括推出“学习生活：洪水与未来”网站；一个跨学科的研究论文和一系列的表演/人工制品的编辑卷，将在洪水风险社区级联。

Floods and issues of 'living with environmental change' are high on research and political agendas - with community lead adaptation planning being a key element in UK flood risk management strategies after Pitt's Review of the 2007 floods.This requires communities who learn from past floods, have a strong sense of their flood histories and an awareness of risk, and know how to live with flooding. While there has been considerable research endeavour to establish what environmental and social sciences can bring to understanding flood histories and environmental change, there has been little research on what arts and humanities research can bring to research on flood histories, wet landscapes and their environmental change. This research network therefore aims to establish distinctive, innovative and engaging arts and humanities research perspectives on watery and flooded landscapes and their environmental change through an excellent interdisciplinary and inter-professional network of international significance. The sub-aims involve a focus on the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings to research on wet landscapes, on researching the changing and potential role of different creative practices in materialising informal knowledge about flood histories, and on applying this research in new contexts of social learning and building community resilience in scenarios of changing flood risk. This network will be fuelled and sustained through an integrated programme of activities. The core activity will be three seminars that build from the 'formal' to 'informal' and culminate in an innovative Living Flood History Conference: 'Floods and Futures: Learning to live' that combines positioning new research explorations with performance and creative arts. Throughout the networking research programme, the project will also engage in explorations with the wider national and international community of researchers in the Arts and Humanities, through a weblog. Network discussions start with a seminar exploring Flood histories and environmental change: theoretical and conceptual frameworks for watery landscapes and living with floods. This is designed to bring arts and humanities researchers in cultural geography, history and heritage together with those in other disciplines to explore understandings of wet and episodically flooded landscapes. The second workshop focuses on understandings of flood heritage and examines flood archives as a resource for exploring known pathways to resilience. The third workshop considers flood stories/narratives around flooding and how these can bring new understandings around social learning and resilience to flooding. The final AHRC network event will be a Living Flood Histories Conference: 'Learning to live: Floods and Futures'. This will focus on developing key research themes that have evolved from the first three workshops. It is anticipated that these will revolve around research explorations of sustainable wet landscapes: theoretical/conceptual underpinnings for research on flood histories and environmental change in the Arts and Humanities; researching changing ways in which floods memories, archives and mnemonic practices are experienced, remembered, materialised, formalised and enhanced; researching flood memory - developing social learning in communities for flood resilience; researching flooding and diversity - sustainable communities, intergenerational communication; and cultural diversity; researching flooding and creativity: exploring the creative strategies of individuals and communities for managing flooding and flood risk; and researching floods and connectivity: exploring the local to global connections between flood-risk communities. Research outputs include the launch of a Learning to Live: Floods and Futures network, a website; an edited interdisciplinary volume of research papers and a series of performances/artefacts that will be cascaded in flood risk communities.