The Social World of Nottingham's Historic Green Spaces: follow-on project

尽管在1760年至1840年间，诺丁汉的人口显著增加，但诺丁汉仍然被公有土地所包围，对公有土地的权利被一群坚定的市民坚决地维护着。经过大量的竞选活动，1845年颁布了《圈地法》，允许在以前开放的田地上开发住房，以缓解该镇严重的过度拥挤和不卫生的生活条件。重要的是，该法确保拨出130英亩土地作为公共开放空间，旨在改善城镇居民，特别是工人阶级的健康和行为。在二十世纪下半叶，这个最初的中产阶级地区变成了一个工人阶级地区，有大量的混合移民和学生社区，许多多人居住的房产和不同类型的社会需求。然而，尽管用途发生了变化，开放空间仍然达到了最初的目的。联合制作的社区项目-诺丁汉历史绿地的社会世界-调查了导致这些空间创建的影响，它们的使用和误用，战争的影响，种植计划的演变，以及关于20世纪现代化和再开发的冲突和辩论。该项目将具有不同兴趣的社区团体和利益相关者聚集在一起，反映了它对诺丁汉公园历史上的共同创造、共同管理和共享的社区使用的重视。该项目的发现通过两个展示活动分享，78%的观众是非学术人士，主要来自当地历史和遗产团体。随后是基于联合研究的文章，其中一些是联合撰写的，发表在当地历史期刊上。这个后续项目将使用创新的、受欢迎的和容易获得的活动来参与并与比最初项目更广泛的受众分享研究成果。核心将是一部社区戏剧，由经验丰富的社区剧作家安迪·巴拉特与第一项目的学术和社区合作伙伴合作撰写。所有年龄层的演员将从当地社区招募。它将在它讨论的绿地上表演，主要是在2016年8月的“爱公园周”期间进行，这是一个庆祝公园和空地的全国性节日。演出将是非正式的，允许观众尽可能少地或尽可能多地观察和互动，只要他们有时间或意愿去做。它将描绘公园历史上最重要和最令人兴奋的时刻和问题，包括它们从创建到现在如何被使用、开发、监管和竞争。它还将挑战关于现在如何使用绿地以及未来可能如何使用绿地的常见假设。视频摘录以及博客和短文将被上传到网络上，以扩大其在地理和人口方面的接受度。在演出周围，将与项目合作伙伴合作组织一系列以社区为重点的活动。所有这些都将链接到最初的研究成果，并旨在鼓励参与和知识共享。一些活动将利用当地社区中心和设施，将研究带到社区的中心。许多活动将在‘爱的公园周’期间举行，以确保所有的促销机会都得到了利用。一些游戏，例如寻宝游戏或强调空间如何被利用的传统游戏，将具有广泛的家庭吸引力。其他活动，如宣传公园历史作用的全县学习日，将吸引来自广泛地理区域的非学术受众。兴趣团体提供的机会，例如森林之友年度“围栏行走”，以及与框架屋协会的合作，将被用作与包括弱势成年人在内的新团体和个人接触和分享的平台。

Despite significant increases in population between 1760 and 1840, Nottingham remained hemmed in by common lands, the rights to which were fiercely preserved by a determined band of burgesses. After much campaigning, an Enclosure Act was granted in 1845 which allowed housing development on previously open fields to relieve the severe overcrowding and insanitary living conditions of the town. Importantly, the Act ensured that 130 acres were set aside for public open space intended to improve the health and conduct of the townspeople, particularly the working classes. During the second half of the twentieth century this originally middle-class district became a working class area with significant mixed immigrant and student communities, many multi-occupied properties and different kinds of social needs. The open spaces, however, continue to fulfil their original purpose, though the uses have changed.The co-produced community project, The Social World of Nottingham's Historic Green Spaces, investigated the influences that led to the creation of the spaces, their changing use and misuse, the impact of war, the evolution of planting schemes, and conflict and debate about twentieth century modernisation and re-development. The project brought together community groups and stakeholders with different interests, mirroring its emphasis upon the historical co-creation, co-management and shared community usages of Nottingham's parks. The project's findings were shared through two showcase events at which 78% of the audience was non-academic, mainly from local history and heritage groups. These were followed up by articles based on the joint research, some co-written, published in local history journals. This follow-on project will use innovative, popular and easily accessible activities to engage and share the research with a much broader audience than was reached in the original project. The core will be a community play, written by Andy Barratt, an experienced community playwright, in collaboration with the academic and community partners of first project. The all-age cast will be recruited from the local community. It will be performed in the green spaces it discusses, mainly during 'Love Parks Week' (Aug 2016) a national Festival that celebrates parks and open spaces. Performances will be informal, allowing audiences to observe and interact as little or as much as they have the time or inclination to do. It will portray the most important and exciting moments and issues in the history of the parks, including how they have been used, developed, policed and contested from their creation to the present day. It will also challenge common assumptions about how green spaces are used now and how they might be used in the future. Videoed excerpts, together with blogs and short articles, will be uploaded to the web to geographically and demographically widen its reception. Around the performances will be a host of community-focused activities organised in collaboration with the project partners. All will link to the original research findings and be designed to encourage participation and knowledge sharing. Some activities will take the research into the heart of the community, using local community centres and facilities. Many will be held during 'Love Parks Week' to ensure all promotional opportunities are exploited. Some, e.g. treasure hunts or traditional games that highlight how the spaces have been used, will have broad, family appeal. Others, such as county-wide Study Day to promote the historic role of parks, will appeal to a non-academic audience from a wide geographic area. Opportunities provided by interest groups, e.g. the Friends of The Forest's annual 'Inclosure Walk' and a collaboration with Framework House Association will be used as platforms to engage and share with new groups and individuals including vulnerable adults.