Eco-Cultural Production in a Changing World

我们生活在一个日益城市化的世界，有证据表明，与自然隔绝会对我们产生负面影响。对克服这种二元性的回应采取了两种截然不同的方法：-试图为人们提供自然，并让人们参与规划和咨询方法，以确保他们的需求得到满足；-逐步(现在正在加速)转向社区控制和/或土地和自然空间的所有权--由社区自己自下而上地发起。这两种方法是同时进行的，这两种方法是对人们如何“享受/体验/消费自然”和“生产自然/生态系统服务”的两种评估。到目前为止，许多工作都集中在这种二元性的一个或另一个部分。我们的愿景是将这些参与形式联系起来，既参与自然的消费，也参与自然的生产。要做到这一点，必须以参与者的经历、叙述和创造性活动为起点。这些创造性活动包括参与性艺术(如林地雕塑制作、音乐或可食用艺术品)、社区节日(如丰收节)和活动(如学习遗产技能)。因此，我们的研究重点是这样一个问题：文化和创意活动如何帮助塑造人、地方和生产之间的联系？我们将其称为“生态文化生产”。这项建议的目的是建立一个网络，将学术界和社区利益攸关方的伙伴关系聚集在一起，形成一系列学科和背景，共同产生产出(包括一项大型赠款提案)，以具体说明如何发展艺术和人文研究和创意活动，以评估和加强这些生态文化生产活动在提供自然惠益方面的作用，从而改善人们和社区的福祉。该网络的产出将是对最新文献的审查，包括社区本身的信息。该项目的主要目的将是编写一份赠款申请，以解决与参与生态生产的社区以及来自艺术和人文学科的学者之间的伙伴关系有关的问题。

We live in an increasingly urbanized world, and one where the evidence indicates that disconnection from 'nature' affects us negatively. The response to overcoming this diconnection has taken two distinct approaches: - attempts to provide nature for people, and to involve people in planning and consultation approaches to ensure their requirements are met;- a gradual (and now accelerating) move to community control and/or ownership of land and natural spaces - instigated from the bottom-up by communities themselves.These twin approaches of 'providing nature' and 'managing nature' are paralleled by the twin assessments of how people are 'enjoying/experiencing/consuming nature' and 'producing nature/ecosystem services'. Much of the work to date has focused on one or other part of this duality. Our vision is to connect these forms of participation in both the consumption and production of nature. To do so, it is essential to take as the starting point the experiences, narratives and creative activities of those participating. These creative activities include participatory art (e.g. woodland sculpture making, music or edible artwork), community festivals (e.g. harvest festivals) and events (e.g. learning heritage skills). Our research focus, then, is on the question 'How do cultural and creative activities help to shape the connections between people, places and production' - we have termed this 'eco-cultural production'. The aim of this proposal is to build a network that that brings together a partnership of academia and community stakeholders form a range of disciplines and backgrounds to co-produce outputs (including a large grant proposal) that will specify how arts and humanities research and creative activities can be developed to assess and enhance the role of these eco-cultural production activities in providing benefits from nature that bring improvements in wellbeing to people and communities.The outputs from this network will be a review of the latest literature, including information from the communities themselves. The main aim of the project will be to write a grant application developed and designed to address the questions relevant to the partnership of communities involved in eco-production and academics from the arts and humanities.