Affective Digital Histories: Recreating De-industrial Places, 1970s to the Present

拟议的研究调查了社区关系和债券如何改变，并继续改变，通过在英国的一些后工业化城镇和城市的城市景观的衰退和再生时期。记录这些变化的档案材料可能很难获得，目前分散在不同的地方。莱斯特大学获得了大量研究赠款，用于收集、分析和数字化现有数据。特别是20世纪70年代至90年代，这段时期对学术研究人员提出了一个有趣的挑战，因为我们知道，尽管英国制造业在20世纪世纪末的衰落有据可查，这些“在那里”的故事并没有被讲述或研究，因为它们可以告诉我们人们对他们和他们的社区可能是其中一部分的地方的情感“感觉”。这些故事构成了一幅重要的信息挂毯，讲述了某些社区如何思考、感受和使用近几十年来经历了重建的物理空间。例如，在莱斯特，这些包括霍尔斯、锐舞场所和各种用途的另类俱乐部。因此，该项目旨在汇集关于废弃和/或年久失修的历史和遗产遗址的现有研究，这些遗址目前正在由市和地方议会进行某种重建。在完成这项工作后，研究人员和社区参与者将密切合作，开发一个开放和公开访问数据的数字档案，形成一个存储库，其中包含在这些建筑物中使用，工作和玩耍的社区的一些故事。我们研究的两个地点是莱斯特的文化区和格洛索普的霍华德镇和惠特菲尔德病房。在不同部门（管理，城市历史，地理，博物馆研究和创意写作）工作的莱斯特大学的研究人员正在汇集他们的知识和专业知识，根据社区如何改变建筑物和遗产地的使用方式的故事，共同创建原始数字资产，即使建筑物本身有助于塑造发生在它们内部和周围的人类活动。我们相信，数字技术促进了持久和可持续的研究资产，可供公众，学校，研究人员，民间组织和创意艺术从业者和企业使用和享受。我们研究的一个关键驱动力是人们如何“感受”一个地方，以及他们如何向自己和他人描述它。计划举办一系列活动和研讨会，吸引来自各种背景的参与者：公民组织、作家、艺术家、艺术场所、地方议会以及艺术组织和数字艺术场所（例如，莱斯特文化区的凤凰）。例如，其中两项涉及创建一个互动的“音频轨迹”，为文化区周围的各个地区提供历史配乐。根据采访数据，一家数字机构将与学术界合作制作配乐，然后通过WiFi向参与者和参观者提供。当人们四处走动时，他们将体验到一个历史音景，这将为这个空间提供独特的体验。在Glossop，人们可以访问建筑物的三维模型，这些模型包含了该地区各种研究不足的采矿社区和企业的故事和经验，如前所述，这些社区和企业以个人方式经历了去工业化。所有这些产出将为任何有兴趣了解20世纪70年代末和90年代期间个人和迄今为止的私人生活的人留下重要的遗产，但他们也热衷于发现对经济和文化“大”问题的见解社区如何塑造他们生活的环境。

The proposed research investigates how community ties and bonds have changed, and continue to change, through periods of decline and regeneration of urban landscapes in some of Britain's post-industrial towns and cities. The archival materials that document these changes can be difficult to access and are currently scattered in different places. The University of Leicester has been awarded a number of research grants to do the work of collecting, analysing and digitising the data that exists.The period from the 1970s to the 1990s, in particular, presents an interesting challenge to academic researchers because we know that while the decline of British manufacturing in the late twentieth century is well-documented, the stories 'out there' have not been told or researched for what they can tell us about people's emotional 'feel' for a place that they and their community might have been part of. These stories form an important tapestry of information about how certain communities think about, feel and use physical spaces that have undergone regeneration in recent decades. In Leicester, for instance, these include dance halls, rave venues and alternative clubs for a variety of uses. This project, therefore, aims to bring together existing research on historical and heritage sites that have fallen into disuse and/or disrepair and that are now undergoing some kind of regeneration by city and local councils. Having done this, the researchers and community participants will then work closely together to develop a digital archive of open and publicly accessible data that forms a repository of some of the stories of communities that used, worked and played in these buildings. The two sites for our study are Leicester's Cultural Quarter and Glossop's Howard Town and Whitfield Wards. University of Leicester researchers working in different departments (Management, Urban History, Geography, Museum Studies and Creative Writing) are pooling their knowledge and expertise to co-create original digital assets based on stories of how communities change how buildings and heritage sites are used, even as the buildings themselves help to shape human activities that take place in and around them. We believe that digital technologies facilitate enduring and sustainable research assets that can be used and enjoyed by the public, schools, researchers, civic organisations and creative arts practitioners and businesses for generations to come. A key driver for our research is how people 'feel' a place and how they describe it to themselves and others. A series of activities and workshops are planned to draw in participants from a range of backgrounds: civic organisations, writers, artists, arts venues, local councils as well as arts organisations and digital arts venues (like the Phoenix in Leicester's Cultural Quarter, for instance). Two of these, for instance, involve creating an interactive 'audio trail' that provides a historical soundtrack to the various areas around the Cultural Quarter. Drawing upon interview data, a digital agency will work with academics to create soundtracks that are then made available to participants and visitors via WiFi. As people move around, they will experience a historical soundscape that will offer unique experiences of this space. In Glossop, three-dimensional models of buildings would be accessible to people that incorporate stories and experiences of various under-researched mining communities and businesses in the area that have, as mentioned, experienced de-industrialisation in a personal way. All these outputs will leave an important legacy for anyone interested in understanding how personal and hitherto private lives were lived during the late 1970s and 1990s but who are also keen to discover insights into the economically and culturally 'big' questions of how communities can shape the environments in which they lived.