Bringing Landscape to Life: Environmental Histories at Sheringham Park 1812-2012

该项目将探索诺福克郡谢林汉姆公园设计景观的环境历史，该公园自1987年以来一直是国民信托基金的财产。这项研究的目的是建立在PI主任影响奖学金的成果基础上，以解决当前关于环境变化对高文化价值的公共可达设计景观的恢复、管理和解释的影响的争论。该研究将建立在主任影响奖学金和国民信托基金之间建立的工作伙伴关系的基础上，并与两个相关的RECN项目（“地方，全球过程”和“景观和野生动物的预期历史”）一起发展，以协作，团队合作的研究模式，更广泛地应用艺术和人文学科对环境变化的看法。它将研究如何在不再有经济和劳动力支撑的情况下保护和展示设计好的景观，并探索如何将过去景观的思想和物质最有效地传达给参观公众。它将利用该设计的话题性，其1812年由汉弗莱·雷普顿设计的200周年纪念，承担新的档案，图书馆和实地研究，将1812年的设计景观置于当时更广泛的房地产管理背景下，重新思考雷普顿1812年的设计，以一种既能提升其在谢林汉姆作为景观建筑的主要范例的形象，又能将其置于更长期更广泛的环境历史中，并将其置于更长期的环境变化历史中：地方、区域、国家和全球。它将考察影响原始设计过程的环境变化的价值和叙述，它的符号和故事线，比较谢林汉姆的雷普顿景观被解释和管理的方式与他在其他地方的地面工作的例子，并描述一个设计的景观如何被解释为居住，工作和移动以及观看。该项目将利用对谢林汉姆历史的理解，参与国民信托组织在保护、遗产和学习方面的政策和实践的发展，特别是在海岸线和林地方面。项目将产生一系列相关成果：2012年7月在谢林汉姆公园举办了一个小型公共展览，在东安格利亚大学举办了一次学术会议，探讨了为公众理解而设计的景观的修复和解释，发表了一篇关于谢林汉姆研究中出现的实际和解释性问题的学术文章，以及一条围绕谢林汉姆公园的景观和环境步道，将谢林汉姆庄园的关键地点和景观与其环境和景观历史结合在一起。此外，研究材料将成为《生活景观》一书的一个章节，并在配套网站上刊登，同时也将用于新版谢林汉姆公园国家信托目录。参与合作的所有项目成员都将从研究和跨学科过程中受益。国民信托基金会的员工和志愿者团队也将受益于他们参与项目，学习指导景观历史的方法，并与研究团队雇用的游客互动。

The project will explore environmental histories of the designed landscape of Sheringham Park in Norfolk, since 1987 the property of the National Trust. The aim of this research is to build upon the outcomes of the PI’s Director’s Impact Fellowship to address current debates about the implications of environmental change for the restoration, management and interpretation of publically accessible designed landscapes of high cultural value. The research will build on the outcomes of an established working partnership between the Director’s Impact Fellowship and the National Trust, and develop those with two related RECN projects(‘Local places, global processes’ and ‘Anticipatory histories of landscape and wildlife’), in a collaborative, teamwork research model of wider application for deploying arts and humanities perspectives on environmental change.It will examine how a designed landscape can be conserved and displayed when there is no longer the economy and labour which once sustained it and explore the ways in which the mentality as well as materiality of this past landscape can best be communicated effectively to the visiting public.It will take advantage of the topicality of the design, the bicentenary of its 1812 design by Humphry Repton, undertaking new archival, library and field research to situate the designed landscape of 1812 within a broader context of estate management of the time, to rethink Repton’s 1812 design in a way which will both raise its profile at Sheringham as a major example of landscape architecture and place it in a longer and wider environmental history of the site and within longer histories of environmental change: local, regional, national and global. It will examine the values and narratives of environmental change which shaped the original design process, its symbols and story lines, compare the way the Repton landscape at Sheringham is interpreted and managed to examples of his work on the ground elsewhere and describe how a designed landscape can interpreted as lived in, worked on and moved through as well as looked at. The project will deploy an understanding of Sheringham’s history to engage with the development of the National Trust’s policies and practices on conservation, heritage and learning, particularly in regard to coastline and woodlands. The project will produce a series of related outcomes: a small public exhibition at Sheringham Park in July 2012, an academic conference at the University of East Anglia exploring the restoration and interpretation of designed landscapes for public understanding, a scholarly article on the practical and interpretative issues arising from the research on Sheringham, and a landscape and environment trail around Sheringham Park weaving together key locations and views on the Sheringham estate with their environmental and landscape histories. Furthermore research materials will inform a chapter of the book Living Landscapes and feature on the companion website, as well as being made available for a new edition of the National Trust catalogue for Sheringham Park. All project members involved in the collaboration will benefit from the research and from the inter-disciplinary process involved in its undertaking. The National Trust team of employees and volunteers will also benefit from their involvement in the project, in learning from the methods of conducting landscape history and engaging with visitors that will be employed by the research team.