'The snows of yesteryear: narrating extreme weather'

“过去的雪：叙述极端天气”的主要目的是揭示和联系过去的经验，无论是历史的还是最近的，作为理解和应对日益被视为气候变化标志的现象的方法。它将探索这些事件被记忆和神话化的方式，并将最终从中学到的东西解释为警告和机会。该项目建立在人权委员会“历史天气”网络开展的工作的基础上，继续对艺术和人文文献和叙事的原始资料进行范围和评估，并展示它们对历史天气和气候研究的价值。它吸引了网络合作i教授洛娜·休斯（现为威尔士大学）和迈克·皮尔森教授（阿伯里斯特威斯大学）作为“景观与环境”项目的获奖者进行合作。该项目将重点关注威尔士国家图书馆（NLW）的档案收藏，这是一家法定寄存图书馆。•研究极端天气事件的记录，特别是地区和国家的严冬经历，因为它们记录在日记、日记和文学和艺术作品中，包括叙事、诗歌、小说、绘画和其他可视化作品，特别是与极端事件有关的记录，例如1703年的“大风暴”；他们是通过采访和网络输入，从活生生的记忆中描述出来的。它侧重于与特定的历史，社会，文化和环境环境和传统相关的经验：威尔士农村社区及其记录-从中世纪威尔士诗歌到当代区域广播新闻。•研究、设计并鼓励创造性的方法来阐述来自各种来源的此类数据，以提供历史背景和理解社区通过恢复力和适应性经历、应对和幸存极端事件的方式。通过这种方式，它将借鉴人们的看法和话语，并为其提供信息，并可能为政策决策提供信息，以应对农村极端天气的复原力和适应性。该项目涉及两方面的调查：•学术研究，以确定和准备潜在的展览材料：来自图书馆和其他档案来源，与美国国家自然调查局合作，来自英国气象局国际大气重建项目（ACRE）的气候科学家，以及历史气象研究人员。档案研究将探索在广泛的文化文本和媒体中极端冬天的表现和描绘方式。这将通过基于网络的社区实地工作得到加强，包括与当地人、历史学家、地理学家和气象学家的访谈，以收集经验、记忆和情感。•以实践为主导的研究，设计适当的公共展示模式，以吸引观众：通过现场表演和在线平台。我们将使用数字艺术和人文学科的方法和方法对项目收集的材料进行选择和数字表示。材料的排序和展示也将遵循内容的戏剧组织原则，突出内容的“表演”方面。这也将展示“数字化思维”对表演发展和叙事的影响。这将导致：•创造一场现场表演，在当地和全国范围内呈现，并于2013年初在威尔士国家图书馆首演。这将唤起过去的事件和对它们的即时反应：创伤和恢复。•创建一个可持续发展的网站：记录研究材料；作为对组装材料的进一步创造性展示；作为储存极端天气经验的互动设施，鼓励公众参与•总结性研讨会和其他学术成果，以确保学术和公共利益的传播

The principal objective of ‘The snows of yesteryear: narrating extreme weather’ is to reveal and relate past experiences, both historical and more recent, as ways of understanding and coping with phenomena increasingly regarded as markers of climate change. It will explore ways that these events are remembered and mythologised, and interpret what is ultimately learned from them as both warning and opportunity.The project builds on the work developed by the AHRC “Historic Weather” Network, by continuing to scope and assess arts and humanities documentary and narrative primary source materials and demonstrate their value for research of historic weather and climate. It draws into collaboration the Network Co-I Prof Lorna Hughes (now University of Wales) and Prof Mike Pearson (Aberystwyth University) as award holder in the ‘Landscape and Environment’ programme. The project will focus on archival collections in the National Library of Wales (NLW), a legal deposit library. The project’s aims are:• To research accounts of extreme weather events, specifically regional and national experiences of harsh winters, as they are recorded in journals, dairies and literary and art works including narratives, poetry, novels, paintings and other visualisations, especially accounts related to extreme events, for example the 1703 “Great Storm”; and as they are described from living memory, via interviews and web input. It focuses upon experiences in relation to particular sets of historical, social, cultural and environmental circumstance and tradition: of rural communities in Wales and their records – from medieval Welsh poetry to contemporary regional broadcast news. • To research, devise and encourage creative approaches to the exposition of such data from a variety of sources to provide an historical context and understanding of ways that communities have experienced, responded to and survived extreme events through resilience and adaptability.Through this it will draw upon and inform perceptions and discourse, and may inform policy decisions with regard to resilience and adaptability in face of extreme weather in rural contexts.The project involves two strands of enquiry:• scholarly research to identify and prepare potential material for exposition: from library and other archival sources, in collaboration with the NLW, climate scientists from the International ACRE (Atmospheric Reconstructions of the Earth) project at the Met Office, and historic weather researchers. Archival reserach will explore the ways in which extreme winters have been represented and depicted in a wide range of cultural texts and media. This will be augmented by web-based community fieldwork including interviews with local people, historians, geographers and meteorologists, to gather experiences, memories and emotions.• practice-led research to devise appropriate modes of public exposition to engage audiences: as live performance and through on-line platforms.We will use digital arts and humanities methods and approaches for selection and digital representation of material collected by the project. The ordering and exposition of material will also follow principles of dramaturgical organization of content, highlighting ‘performative’ aspects of the content. This will also demonstrate the impact of “thinking digitally” on performance development and narrative. It will result in:• the creation of a live performance to be presented locally and nationally, with a premiere in the National Library of Wales in early 2013. This will evoke past events and immediate responses to them: of both trauma and resilience.• the creation of a sustainable website: with a record of research materials; as the further creative exposition of assembled materials; as an interactive facility for the deposit of experiences of extreme weather, encouraging public engagement• a summative workshop and other academic outputs to ensure the dissemination of academic and public benefits