Participation's "Others": A Cartography of Creative Listening Practices

参与的“他人”：创造性倾听实践的制图询问如何扩展参与性研究，使其能够更好地“倾听”不属于传统个体人类主体界限的声音，例如过去和未来的几代人，非人类的生命，彻底去中心化的思想，以及物体和技术。人们越来越认识到，要解决环境、社会和精神生活所面临的日益严重的生态问题，就需要挑战作为政治和艺术代理的典型形式的活生生的个体人类主体所占据的地位。应对这些全球性挑战需要创造新的方式来倾听不同的声音。这个由早期职业研究人员主导的项目将建立一个国际专业知识网络，以便为多个不同的连接社区项目增加价值，这些项目挑战有关参与性研究利益相关者的人类中心主义假设。该项目将综合至少15个解决这一主题的相关项目的成果，建立一个不同项目的多媒体制图，这些项目共同面临的问题是，如何让那些在参与性民主进程和研究合作生产中没有普通“声音”的代理人参与进来，以及如何建立合法的权威形式来翻译和“为”这些行动者说话。该项目将促进国际合作，围绕参与的“他人”建立新的方法、途径、案例研究、框架和文献。活动包括在英国和美国的研讨会，“慢思维”住宅静修和研讨会。至少有6位来自英国和美国的社区合作伙伴和独立艺术家将积极参与项目活动和产出的设计。产出将包括一个交互式在线地图、一个文集、一个公共艺术项目，以及传统的学术产出，所有这些都旨在扩展互联社区研究的遗产。互动式地图将列出当前和以前的研究项目，这些项目发明了使参与的“他人”参与的方法，并根据讲习班确定的参与性调查的多种模式专门开发了搜索功能。这个在线资源将有助于引导、激发和激励当前和未来的跨学科团队在后人类背景下制定新的研究项目。我们将按照广受欢迎的《参与的问题：民主、权威和为共同生活而奋斗》一书的模式，编辑一份关于该项目的简短、通俗易懂的反思集。《参与的问题：民主、权威和为共同生活而奋斗》一书是该研究小组在早期的“连接社区”项目中出版的。公共艺术项目将由静修的艺术家们领导，并将激发更广泛的参与，将创造性的方法结合在一起。

Participation's "Others": A Cartography of Creative Listening Practices asks how participatory research might be extended to become better able to 'listen' to voices that do not fall within the boundaries of the traditional individual human subject, such as past and future generations, non-human life, radically decentred minds, and objects and technologies. There is a growing recognition that addressing the mounting ecological problems facing environmental, social and mental life requires challenging the place occupied by the individual living human subject as the paradigmatic form of political and artistic agency. Addressing these global challenges requires inventing new ways of listening to alternative voices. This early career researcher-led project will build an international network of expertise in order to add value to the multiple and varied Connected Communities projects that challenge anthropocentric assumptions about the stakeholders of participatory research. The project will synthesize results from at least 15 related projects that address this theme, building a multimedia cartography of diverse projects that share the problem of how to involve agents who do not possess an ordinary 'voice' in participatory democratic processes and research co-production, and how to establish legitimate forms of authority to translate and speak 'for' these actors. The project will facilitate international collaboration to build new methods, approaches, case studies, frameworks and literatures around participation's "others". Activities include workshops in the UK and USA, residential 'slow thinking' retreats, and a symposium. At least six community partners and independent artists, in the UK and USA, will take an active part in the design of the project activities and outputs. The outputs will include an interactive online map, a collection of essays, and a public art project, as well as conventional academic outputs, all aimed at extending the legacy of Connected Communities research. The interactive maps will chart current and previous research projects that invent methods for engaging participation's "others", with search functions specifically developed in line with the plurality of modes of participatory inquiry identified in the workshops. This online resource will help orient, provoke and inspire current and future trans-disciplinary teams in formulating new research projects in a post-human context. A collection of short, accessible reflections on the project will be edited along the model of the well-received "Problems of Participation: Democracy, Authority, and the Struggle for Common Life", which was published by this research team as part of an earlier Connected Communities project. The public art project will be led by the artists at the retreat and will stimulate broader engagement with the inventive methods drawn together.