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

参与的“其他”：《创造性倾听实践的地图》提出了如何扩展参与性研究，使其能够更好地“倾听”不属于传统个人主体范围内的声音，如过去和未来的几代人、非人类生命、完全去中心化的思想、物体和技术。人们日益认识到，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媒介的典型形式的个人生活主体所占据的地位。应对这些全球挑战需要发明新的方式来倾听其他声音。这个由早期职业研究人员领导的项目将建立一个国际专业知识网络，为多个不同的互联社区项目增加价值，这些项目挑战了参与式研究利益相关者的以人为本的假设。该项目将综合处理这一主题的至少15个相关项目的结果，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不拥有普通“声音”的代理人参与参与民主进程和研究共同制作，以及如何建立合法形式的权威来翻译和为这些行为者说话。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，住宅'慢思维'务虚会，和一个研讨会。在英国和美国，至少有六个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。这些成果将包括一个互动式在线地图、一本论文集和一个公共艺术项目，以及传统的学术成果，所有这些都旨在扩大互联社区研究的遗产。互动地图将绘制当前和以前的研究项目，这些项目发明了让参与的“他人”参与的方法，并根据讲习班中确定的多种参与式调查模式专门开发了搜索功能。这个在线资源将帮助引导，激发和激励当前和未来的跨学科团队在后人类环境中制定新的研究项目。一系列简短的、可访问的关于该项目的思考将沿着广受欢迎的“参与问题：民主、权威和共同生活的斗争”的模型进行编辑，该模型是由该研究小组作为早期连接社区项目的一部分出版的。公共艺术项目将由静修会上的艺术家领导，并将激发更广泛的参与，共同创造性的方法。

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.