Stories to connect with: disadvantaged children creating phygital community objects to share their life-narratives of resilience and transformation

该项目是Barnardo's，活跃于Barnardo服务的儿童和年轻人，两所大学五个学科的学者以及着名儿童作家之间的合作。Barnardo的年轻人核心小组将接受培训，成为共同研究人员，收集其他儿童和年轻人的故事，这些儿童和年轻人获得Barnardo的服务，了解他们的生活和克服逆境的经历。从儿童那里引出的故事将不可避免地利用他们自己的“知识基金”（Gonzalez et al 2005），使他们自己的经验得到信任，并鼓励他人同情。我们期望通过创作和传播建立社会资本，从而有助于提高青年人获得和改善服务的能力。这一过程将得到训练有素的护理人员和社区研究人员的认真管理。这些故事将在与同意参与该项目的著名儿童作家（梅尔文·伯吉斯和阿黛尔杰拉斯）的研讨会上进行提炼和修改（伯吉斯在2011年的《杀死所有敌人》中采用了“发现小说”的方法）。由此产生的故事将鼓舞其他儿童和年轻人及其家庭，其中一些人将受益于巴纳多或其他儿童的服务。为了与其他家庭建立联系，这些故事将被转录、重写、叙述，并放置在物理数字对象中，由年轻的故事讲述者自己与兰开斯特大学想象力实验室的数字设计学者合作设计。这些植物人工制品的大小可能各不相同，可以采取C&YP确定的任何形式（例如，手持动物，真人大小的树，垃圾箱，向导），将位于参与者和Barnardo确定的社区位置，因为它们最有可能对更广泛的受众产生影响。这些故事将具有互动性和个性化的潜力，并采取书面和/或口头语言的形式。在欣赏的理念下，儿童和青少年将创作自己的故事，并从其他人那里获得肯定的故事，反映他们在应对其特殊和往往困难的环境挑战时的适应力、优势和成就。这些“与之联系的故事”将作为通常流传的关于儿童接触和“处于边缘”参与儿童社会服务的故事的反面叙述，并将挑战媒体和儿童文学中关于获得服务的人的先入之见和假设（Dahl 1993年; Booktrust 2006年）。将这些故事放置在定制的对象中，这些对象本身就连接和挑战其他人，这将使故事能够走出它们产生的社会，地理和政治场所，并在虚拟和物理世界中更广泛地连接。我们相信，“在边缘”创造了一个特定的背景和潜在的能量，而博物馆的phygital故事对象可以作为“边缘”边界上的孔隙，通过它可以进行交流，并导致同一地理社区不同元素之间的边界软化。phygital文物将在至少三个不同的环境中由公众试用和评估社区设置：学校;购物中心和一个巴纳多斯中心然后，将在社区活动中推出经过改进的文物，然后将其（半）永久地放置在整个团队认为最有效的区域，以便向社区内的不同受众传播故事。

This project is a collaboration between Barnardo's, children and young people who are active in Barnardo's services, academics from five disciplines at two universities, and well-known children's authors. The core group of Barnardo's young people will be trained as co-researchers to collect stories from other children and young people who access Barnardos services about their lives and experiences of overcoming adversity. The stories elicited from children will inevitably draw on their own 'funds of knowledge' (Gonzalez et al 2005), giving credence to their own experience and encouraging others to empathise. We expect the consequent building of social capital via authorship and dissemination to contribute to young people's capacity in accessing and improving services. This process will be carefully managed with input from trained care workers and community researchers. The stories will be refined and revised in workshops with well-known children's authors (Melvin Burgess and Adele Geras) who have agreed to participate in the project (Burgess has adopted a 'found fiction' approach in 'Kill All Enemies' 2011). The resulting stories will be inspirational for other children and young people and their families, some of whom would benefit from Barnardo's or other children's services. In order to connect with these other families, the stories will be transcribed, re-written, narrated, and placed in phygital (physical-digital) objects, designed by the young storytellers themselves in collaboration with digital design academics from Lancaster University Imagination Lab. The phygital artefacts, which might vary in size and take any form as determined by the C&YP (e.g. a hand-held animal, a life-size tree, a dustbin, a wizard), will be located in positions in the community identified by the participants and Barnardo's as having the most potential for impact on a wider audience. The stories will have the potential to be interactive, personalised and take the form of written and/or spoken language.Working within an appreciative philosophy, the children and young people will generate their own stories and elicit affirmative stories from other CYP reflecting their resilience, strengths and achievements in negotiating the challenges of their particular and often difficult circumstances. These 'stories to connect with' will act as counter-narratives to those which usually circulate about children in contact with and 'on the edge' of engaging with children's social services and will challenge preconceptions and assumptions about people who access services, both in the media and in children's literature (Dahl 1993; Booktrust 2006). Placing these stories within bespoke objects which in themselves connect and challenge other people will enable the stories to travel outside of the social, geographical and political locale in which they have been produced and to connect more widely in both the virtual and physical world. It is our belief that being 'on the edge' creates a particular context and potential energy and that the CYP's phygital story objects can act as pores in the boundaries of the 'edge' through which communication can take place and lead to a softening of the boundaries between different elements of the same geographical community.The phygital artefacts will be trialled and evaluated by members of the public in at least three different community settings: a school; a shopping centre; and a Barnardos centre. The refined artefacts will then be launched at a community event, before being located (semi-)permanently in areas considered by the whole team to be the most effective for disseminating the stories to diverse audiences within the community.