Re-configuring ruins: materialities, processes and mediations

这个项目的目的是将废墟视为门槛，窗口，为过去，现在和未来之间的关系提供独特的见解。该项目围绕三个主要问题展开，它们共同探讨了废墟的理论、地理和物质层面：废墟如何在时间、空间和媒体上重新配置？我们倾向于通过透镜看到和遇到废墟是欧洲中心的吗？如果是这样的话，不同的地理位置如何有助于更深入地了解周围的其他文化和废墟的其他性质？来自不同学科的技能和方法是否有助于更好地理解废墟的存在和暂时性？如果是，有哪些渠道与发展这种了解相称？这些问题从根本上讲是关于关怀未来主题核心的连续性和变化的意义。他们触及来自东亚，拉丁美洲和欧洲（以及整个历史）的不同社会和文化群体如何与废墟接触，以联系他们的过去和预测的未来。废墟的美学在浪漫主义的废墟欲望概念中享有特权（其中包括泰特英国的“废墟欲望”展览，2014年3月至5月），它抓住了西方对废墟作为一个概念，地点和过程的特殊关注。我们的跨学科和跨时期的方法从其他角度质疑废墟的意义，并询问废墟的想象是否可以成为参与未来变化以及思考与过去互动的生成和预喻手段。我们的合作项目借鉴了来自不同学科背景（历史，人文地理学和城市研究，英语文学，东亚文化研究和拉丁美洲历史）的四位研究人员的技能，知识和方法，以解开废墟的材料，过程和中介可以调查的方式。为了实现这一目标，项目团队包括两个非HEI合作伙伴，这两个合作伙伴对项目的开发和成果的交付至关重要：伦敦考古博物馆（MOLA）和纽卡斯尔的新桥项目（NBP）。MOLA将为遗址考古学提供实用指导，并对英国各地遗址的社会价值提供机构观点，而新桥项目将提供创造性的透镜，通过它以不同的方式与遗址接触。计划举办讲习班、实地访问和虚拟平台，以促进学术界、专家、从业人员和艺术家的专门知识和合作，由四名项目调查员撰写针对跨学科受众的学术文章。MOLA和NBP将各自主办一次研讨会并领导现场访问。NBP将计划并举办一个展览，首先在纽卡斯尔展出，随后转移到伦敦。非HEI合作伙伴与英格兰东北部（NBP）的艺术家和创意产业社区的经验，结合考古学家，房地产开发商和英国各地（MOLA）的混合观众，将使该项目不仅具有创新性和创造性，而且及时和相关。此外，该项目通过分享专业知识，促进英格兰东北部和东南部之间正在进行的对话，以使不同的公众能够欣赏塑造当代英国景观的创造力和再生战略。这一方面通过探索广泛的空间（从地方到国家到全球）和时间（从“古代”到后工业废墟）视角来说明项目的目标，这是其一般主题和理论以及实际实验结果的核心。

The aim of this project is to treat ruins as thresholds, windows that provide a unique insight into the relationship between past, present and future. The project is structured around three main questions, which together investigate the theoretical, geographical and material dimensions of ruins: How are ruins re-configured across time, space and media? Is the lens through which we tend to see and encounter ruins Euro-centric? If so, how can different geographies contribute to a richer understanding of the other cultures around and the alternative natures of ruins? Can the skills and approaches from different disciplines contribute to better understand the presence and the temporality of ruins? If so, what channels are commensurate with developing such understanding? These questions are fundamentally about the meaningfulness of continuity and change at the heart of the Care for the Future theme. They touch on how different social and cultural groups from East Asia, Latin America and Europe (and across history) engage with ruins to relate to their pasts and projected futures. The aesthetic of ruins privileged in the romantic concept of Ruinenlust (illustrated by, among others, Tate Britain's 'Ruin Lust' exhibition, March-May 2014) captures a particular Western gaze upon ruins as a concept, site and process. Our cross-disciplinary and cross-period approach questions the meaningfulness of ruins from other perspectives, and asks whether the imagination of ruins can be a generative and pre-figurative means of engaging with future change as well as thinking about interactions with the past. Our collaborative project draws on the skills, knowledge and methods of four researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds (history, human geography and urban studies, English literature, East Asian cultural studies and Latin American history) in order to unpack the ways through which the materialities, processes and mediations of ruins can be investigated. To achieve this, the project team includes two non-HEI partners that are central to the development and the delivery of its outcomes: Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) and the NewBridge Project (NBP), Newcastle. MOLA will offer practical guidance on the archaeology of ruins, and also an institutional view on the social values of ruins across the UK, while the NewBridge Project will provide the creative lens through which to engage with ruins differently. Workshops, site visits and virtual platforms are planned to foster expertise and collaboration of academics, experts, practitioners and artists, with the four project investigators producing academic articles that will target an interdisciplinary audience. MOLA and the NBP will each host one workshop and lead the site visits. The NBP will plan and deliver an exhibition that will first be shown in Newcastle, and subsequently moved to London. The non-HEI partners' experience with the communities of artists and creative industries in Northeast England (NBP) combined with archaeologists, property developers and mixed audiences across the UK (MOLA) will make the project not only innovative and creative, but also timely and relevant. In addition, the project contributes to the ongoing dialogue between the Northeast and Southeast of England by sharing expertise in order to enable diverse publics to appreciate the creativity and regeneration strategies that shape the contemporary UK landscape. This aspect speaks to the project's objectives by exploring a breadth of spatial (from local to national to global) and temporal (from 'ancient' to post-industrial ruins) perspectives, which are central to its general themes and theories as well as its practical experimental outcomes.