Creative Resilience through Community Imaginings

强调想象力和联系的做法如何激发变革性机构，并建立社区在面对环境挑战和机遇时的韧性？这个问题汇集了学术界和民间社会组织的九名研究人员，是这一发展提案的基础，以产生一套全面的方法和途径，用来开始寻找答案。它解决了环境社会科学家一直试图解决的棘手问题，这些问题没有现成的科学解决方案，但本质上是基于背景和文化特定的。我们研究一种实用的参与方法的产生，得到表演和美学理论的启发，以促进在社会、文化和经济领域应对环境变化的知识。有证据表明，环境危机的叙述非但没有刺激人们采取行动，反而会引发焦虑、无助和无能为力的感觉。归根结底，这些叙述可能会助长冷漠和否认，阻止人们考虑替代方案或控制局面。行为改变干预措施也旨在鼓励考虑环境的行为，但往往忽视了对地位、道德价值观和信仰、身份、生活质量和乐趣的担忧，从而剥夺了人们所珍视的许多生活。这个项目解决了社会对日常生活的观念(即提供我们指南针的小成就和直觉)逐步改变的需要，以考虑到一个具有明显不同的环境、机会和不确定状态的未来。我们将制定一项工作方案，以解决所需变革的规模和形式，并共同制定变革进程，考虑到使生活变得可管理和值得生活的因素。我们把社区而不是个人作为我们激发创造力的主要焦点。这种韧性的独特之处在于，它将经受住预期变化带来的困难和紧张局势，但也能巧妙地应对这种变化带来的问题。通过这种方式，该提案解决的不是所需的变化，而是对正在进行的变化做出反应的必要性，以及一种强烈的意识，即我们所有人都在所有时间内在我们的所有行动中创造未来。

How might practices that stress imagination and connection inspire transformational agency and build communities' resilience in the face of environmental challenges and opportunities? The question, which brings together nine researchers from academia and civil society organizations, is the basis of this development proposal to generate a full-scale set of methods and approaches with which to begin to find an answer. It addresses head-on intractable problems that environmental social scientists have been attempting to tackle and which don't readily have a scientific solution, but are inherently context-based and culturally specific. We research the production of a practical method of engagement, informed by theories of performance and aesthetics, to contribute to knowledge on dealing with environmental change in the social, cultural and economic realms. Evidence suggests that environmental crisis narratives, rather than spur people to take action, prompt feelings of anxiety, helplessness and disempowerment. Ultimately these narratives may serve to foster apathy and denial, discouraging people from considering alternatives or taking control. Behaviour change interventions, also aimed at encouraging environmentally-considerate behaviour, have tended to ignore concerns about status, ethical values and beliefs, identity, quality of life and fun, thereby stripping life of much that people value. This project addresses the need for a step-change in society's notion of everyday life (ie the small achievements and intuitions that provide our compass) to take account of a future with distinctly different environment, opportunities, and states of uncertainty. We will build a programme of work to address the scale and forms of change needed and to co-develop a change process that accounts for the factors that make life manageable and worth living. We take communities rather than individuals as our principal focus for inspiring creative resilience. The particular quality of this resilience is that it will withstand hardships and tensions arising out of the changes expected, but also respond ingeniously to solving the problems such change throws up. In this way, the proposal addresses not the changes needed, but the need for responsiveness to ongoing change and a strong sense that we are all future-making all of the time in all our actions.