"Before the Flood": Interweaving situated performance and flood narratives for resilience building in hard-to-reach urban flood risk communities.

1. 社区学习（CBL）的进一步评估：在这两个案例研究领域（2012年9月）有针对性的社区绩效活动之后，我们目前正在通过衡量相关利益相关者/当地居民的反应和看法来评估这些活动。目前正在街道一级进行简短的项目后调查，以及一些较长的访谈。然而，为了更深入地探索参与这些艺术干预所带来的基于社区的学习的本质，我们想以焦点小组讨论的形式进行进一步深入的反思，在更多的纵向上远离9月的事件（为了衡量该项目在持续的时间内产生了什么影响，如果有的话）。这里的建议是为研究助理提供支持，以协调/帮助分析焦点小组讨论的数据，在此期间，参与者将被要求批判性地反思他们对项目活动和出现的主题/问题的记忆。这些评估将有助于为开发当前项目的遗产和潜在可复制性提供信息。2. 进一步发展创意成果；探索产生影响的途径：在伊斯特维尔和希普利的公开演讲（2012年9月）导致了进一步跟进的各种要求。伊斯特维尔的反馈强调了当地水叙事作为参与和社区学习的刺激因素的价值，公众要求提供基于叙事的音频轨道的副本，用于伴随我们特定地点的舞蹈漫步。我们建议通过与社区合作制作简短的数字视频文件来扩展项目的这一维度，这些文件包含音频叙述和互补的视觉效果，可以收集到DVD上并在线观看（从而确保这种叙事资源的可访问性和可持续性）。我们计划于2013年5月在格兰弗罗姆小学（Glenfrome Primary School）公开放映这些作品，作为临时名为“更多来自河岸的电影”活动的一部分。（2012年9月，几家当地团体未能首次放映以河流为主题的当地电影，有人要求重播）。这些数字故事也将提交给“布里斯托尔故事”——一个创造性的在线数字故事项目（由分水岭和布里斯托尔博物馆、画廊和档案馆合作运营）。在希普利，有很多人要求我们重新编排9月份一个周末的有剧本的散步表演，以便吸引更多的观众。（我们展示了三个环环相扣的“路线”的五个循环，将当地水道附近的不同区域连接起来：参见http://multi-story-shipley.co.uk/?p=310上整理的反馈。）在该地区建立了一个存在和身份，这是一个真正的机会，可以使用大量的表演来促进围绕它们的公众对话，并进一步发展项目的潜在影响。布拉德福德市议会邀请我们与他们自己的社区倡议一起再次演出。我们也期待环境署的进一步参与（由于夏季约克郡需要应对重大洪灾，他们在9月之前直接参与的能力有限）。基于与Titus Salt High School（服务于当地）不断发展的关系，我们计划在学校举办各种活动/讨论，以配合重新安装的表演，最大限度地提高当地对环境/遗产问题的理解和认识。我们还计划专门针对中学生进行一些表演，以衡量他们对特定年龄组的有效性。3. 进一步发展小学的积极性。我们参与伊斯特维尔的一个关键部分是与Glenfrome小学的发展关系，在那里，围绕当地河流/洪水意识的课程开发工作正在进行中。利益攸关方认为，让儿童及其家人参与故事收集、当地知识分享和创造性应对的过程是一种特别有效和可转让的方法。我们正在与学校合作开发一个教师包和网络资源，可以在其他情况下使用，这将鼓励学生了解并创造性地回应他们附近的河流（它们的历史、自然特征和它们所代表的风险）。我们希望在这两个案例研究领域取得这些成果。在布里斯托尔，通过市议会的参与，Glenfrome的工作将被级联到弗罗姆河沿岸的其他小学，以及其他洪水风险环境（如布里斯顿溪快速反应集水区），这些地方对1968年布里斯托尔的洪水有记忆。在布拉德福德，我们计划在几个地区的学校试用教师包，并于5月在“镜子池”（位于市中心的一个主要的新水景）进行现场公开表演。这一举措是为了响应布拉德福德议会（源自Shipley项目）的特别邀请，为欧盟范围内的抗洪城市会议（Interreg IVB）的开幕式创作一场以洪水为主题的表演。我们的建议是通过鼓励布拉德福德地区的小学生调查布拉德福德贝克及其支流，为市中心场地开发表演和展览，这一建议得到了很好的认可。已经有几所学校证实了他们的参与。布拉德福德市议会正在支持镜像池绩效的成本，并提供学校联系，但需要额外的资源来适当地发展/评估小学工作的“推广”到更广泛的选区（例如研究助理支持，材料成本等）。注：在这两个案例研究领域，这些进一步的发展将使我们有机会探索与defra资助的试点集水区项目的协同作用。在布拉德福德，我们正在考虑使用镜像池倡议来提高公众对Aire Rivers Trust的布拉德福德贝克集水区计划的认识（该计划在2012- 2013年由DEFRA资助开发）。在布里斯托尔，我们在水叙事方面的工作将直接融入“布里斯托尔雅芳河故事”——这是defra资助的布里斯托尔雅芳集水区试点项目面向公众的部分，该项目包括Frome （Bath & NE Somerset Council/Avon Frome Partnership）。

1. Further evaluation of community-based learning (CBL): Following targeted, community-based performance events in both case study areas (September, 2012), we are currently evaluating these activities by gauging responses and perceptions of relevant stakeholders/local residents. Brief, post-project surveys are being conducted at street level, as well as some longer interviews. However, in order to explore in greater depth the nature of community-based learning that comes from engagement with these arts interventions, we would like to experiment with further, in-depth reflection in the form of focus group discussions conducted at more of a longitudinal remove from the September events (in order to gauge what impact, if any, the project has made over a sustained time period). The proposal here is for research assistant support to co-ordinate/help analyse data from focus group discussions, during which participants will be asked to reflect critically on their memories of the project's activities and the themes/issues arising. These evaluations will help inform strategies for the developing the legacy and potential replicability of the current project. 2. Further development of creative outcomes; exploration of pathways to impact: The public presentations (September 2012), in both Eastville and Shipley, led to various requests for further follow-up. Feedback in Eastville has highlighted the value of local water narratives as a stimulus for engagement and community learning, with members of the public requesting copies of the narrative-based audio tracks used to accompany our site-specific dance promenade. We propose to extend this dimension of the project by working with communities in the production of short, digital video files, containing audio narratives and complementary visuals, which can be collected on DVD and viewed online (thereby ensuring the accessibility and sustainability of this narrative resource). We plan to screen these pieces publicly in May 2013, at Glenfrome Primary School (host to several project activities), as part of an event provisionally titled "More Films from the River Bank." (Several local groups were unable to make the first showing of local, river-themed films in September 2012, and there have been requests for a re-run). The digital stories will also be lodged at 'Bristol Stories' - a creative online digital storytelling project (run in partnership between Watershed and Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives Service). In Shipley, there have been numerous requests for us to remount the scripted promenade performances staged over one weekend in September, in order to reach further audience members. (We presented five cycles of our three interlocking 'routes' connecting different areas in the vicinity of the local waterways: see feedback collated at http://multi-story-shipley.co.uk/?p=310 .) Having established a presence and identity in the area, there is a real opportunity to use a remount of the performances to further the public dialogue around them, and further develop the project's potential impact. Bradford Council has asked us to present the performances again in conjunction with their own community initiatives. We would also look to further the involvement of the Environment Agency (with major flood situations to respond to in Yorkshire during the summer, their capacity to participate directly in the run-up to September was limited). Building on a developing relationship with Titus Salt High School (serves the local area), we plan to hold various events/discussions at the school in conjunction with the remounted performances, to maximise local understanding and awareness of the environment/heritage issues arising. We also plan to target some performances specifically at secondary-school students, in order to gauge their effectiveness with that particular age group. 3. Further development of primary school initiative. A key part of our engagement in Eastville has involved the developing relationship with Glenfrome Primary School, where curriculum development work around local river/flood awareness is ongoing. Engaging children, and through them their families, in the process of story-gathering, local knowledge-sharing, and creative response, is seen by stakeholders as a particularly impactful and transferable methodology. We are working with the school to develop a teacher's pack and web resources, usable in other contexts, which will encourage pupils to learn about, and respond creatively to, rivers in their immediate vicinity (their histories, natural features, and the risks they represent). We are looking to develop these outcomes in both case study areas. In Bristol, through the engagement of the City Council, the work at Glenfrome will be cascaded to other primary schools along the River Frome, and in other flood risk settings (such as the Brislington Brook rapid response catchment) that have memories of the 1968 floods in Bristol. In Bradford, we plan to pilot the teacher's pack through use in several area schools, working towards a sited public performance in May at the "Mirror Pool" - a major new water feature in the heart of the city centre. This initiative is in response to a specific invitation from Bradford Council (arising from the Shipley project) to create a flood-themed performance for the opening ceremony of the EU-wide Flood Resilient Cities conference (Interreg IVB). Our proposal to develop both a performance and exhibition for the city centre site, by encouraging Bradford area primary school children to investigate Bradford Beck and its tributaries, has been well received. Already several schools have confirmed their involvement. Bradford Council is supporting the costs of the Mirror Pool performance as well as providing schools contacts, but additional resources are needed to properly develop/evaluate this 'roll-out' of the primary school work to a wider constituency (e.g. research assistant support, materials costs, etc.). Note: In both case study areas, these further developments will provide us with opportunities to explore synergies with DEFRA-funded pilot catchment projects. In Bradford, we are looking at using the Mirror Pool initiative to raise public awareness of the Aire Rivers Trust's Catchment Plan for Bradford Beck (developed with DEFRA funding during 2012-13). In Bristol, our work on water narratives will feed directly into the 'Bristol Avon River Story' - the public-facing part of the DEFRA-funded pilot project for the Bristol Avon catchment, which includes the Frome (Bath & NE Somerset Council/Avon Frome Partnership).