Listening to Climate Change: experiments with sonic democracy

该项目通过声音媒介让公众参与气候变化问题。它首先假设，气候变化问题的复杂时间性和相互联系，以及这些问题引发的难以表达的希望、恐惧和期望，可能会被有益地描绘出来，并通过声音表达出来。该项目的重点是诺福克郡布莱克尼角脆弱的沿海沼泽，目前由主要项目合作伙伴国家信托基金(NT)管理。它与NT自己关心的问题联系在一起，鼓励居民、利益相关者和游客建设性地参与到沿海景观气候变化带来的挑战中来。该项目探索了声波艺术实践的作用，以促进和增强Blakeney Point的居民和其他用户参与应对气候变化带来的挑战，并探索该地点未来可能出现的希望和不希望看到的场景。这项研究建立和扩展了NT最近的倡议声音我们的海岸(2015-16)。气候变化的问题给科学知识的传播和关于环境不确定性、可能性、期权和未来的更广泛的公众辩论带来了非凡的挑战。气候变化问题作为复杂的、看似无形的现象或“看不见的风险”，涉及一系列时间尺度和地理上广泛的后果，是出了名的难以追踪、难以想象和难以显现。事实证明，以艺术为基础的气候变化传播是在某些公共辩论领域内塑造和形成这些复杂问题的一种重要手段。然而，尽管Hulme(2008,2009)呼吁气候变化在很大程度上是一个文化问题，但许多与气候变化相关的艺术作品是艺术家为公众创作的，希望引起公众的反应，而不是公众本身，作为促进对话的积极和持续的一部分。该项目采用基于社会过程的艺术方法，帮助将关于气候变化的艺术作品转向更清楚地表达对话和相互学习的模式。它探索了这样一种断言，即声音具有一种独特的能力，可以在一个共享的空间中将表面上和其他方面无法相称的“声音”、痕迹、数据发声和环境声音聚集在一起，在这个共享空间中，每个人都可以相互交谈。这里的潜力是在社会和自然世界之间启动某种形式的有意义的交流，并使参与者和观众能够更好地想象环境变化的影响、潜力和可能性。我们在这项研究中解决三个问题：Q1。声音如何帮助探索和更广泛地传播气候变化的复杂的时间性质？以声音为基础的参与战略能在多大程度上促进不同相关方之间的对话、反应和对话，包括各种人类利益、动植物和环境过程？在人类导致气候变化的背景下，合作参与式声波艺术在创造性的集体想象环境未来中可以发挥什么作用？该项目团队包括地理学家、音乐家兼作曲家兼声音艺术家、社区参与专家、艺术纪录片制作人、当地合作伙伴：NT、布莱克尼小学和未来电台。为期31个月的共同设计的讲习班、声波数据收集以及参与者主导和沉着的表演将导致制作声波河口计划，作为Blakeney Point的互动多媒体电子书。其他作品包括声学展览、现场表演、电台民谣和纪录片，以巡视/接触其他国家信托基金沿海遗址。另一本关于这些声学参与方法的电子书将汇集其他地方的最佳实践，批判性地反思项目中进行的声学实验。

This project engages publics with issues of climate change through the medium of sound. It starts from the assumption that the complex temporalities and interconnections which characterise climate change issues and the hard-to-articulate hopes, fears and expectations that these provoke might be usefully delineated and voiced through sound. The project focuses on the vulnerable coastal marshes of Blakeney Point, Norfolk, currently in the care of the National Trust (NT), the main project partner. It connects with NT's own concern to encourage residents, stakeholders and visitors to engage constructively with the challenges posed by climatic change in coastal landscapes. The project explores the role of sonic art practice to facilitate and empower residents and other users of Blakeney Point to engage with the challenges raised by climate change and explore possible desired and undesired future scenarios for this location. This study builds and extends the NT's recent initiative Sounds of our Shores (2015-16).Issues of climate change pose extraordinary challenges for the communication of scientific knowledge and for broader public debate concerning environmental uncertainties, possibilities, options and futures. As complex, seemingly intangible phenomena or 'invisible risks', involving a range of timescales and geographically extensive consequences, climate change issues are notoriously difficult to trace, imagine and bring into presence. Arts-based communication of climate change has proved one important means of giving shape and form to such complex issues within certain arenas of public debate. Yet in spite of Hulme's (2008,2009) plea that climate change is very much a cultural problem, much climate change-related arts-based work is made by artists for publics in the hope of provoking responses rather than by publics themselves as an active and ongoing part of facilitating dialogue.This project adopts a social process-based arts methodology to help move arts-based work concerning climate change towards a more clearly articulated model of conversation and mutual learning. It explores the assertion that sound has a distinctive ability to bring together apparently and otherwise incommensurable 'voices', traces, data sonifications and environmental sounds, in a shared space in which each might speak to the other. The potential here is to initiate some form of meaningful communication between social and natural worlds and to enable participants and audiences to better imagine the implications, potentials and possibilities of environmental change.We address three questions in this research:Q1. How can sound help explore and more widely communicate the complex temporal nature of climate change?Q2. To what extent can a sonically based engagement strategy facilitate dialogue, response and conversation between a diverse range of interested parties including various human interests, flora, fauna and environmental processes?Q3. What role can collaborative participatory sonic art play in the creative collective imagining of environmental futures in the context of human-induced climate change?The project team includes geographers, musician-composer-sound artists, community engagement specialists, arts-documentary-makers, local partners: the NT, Blakeney Primary School and Future Radio. A thirty-one month programme of co-devised workshops, sonic data collection and participant-led and composed performance will lead to the production of a Sonic Estuary Plan as an interactive multi-media e-book for Blakeney Point. Other outputs include a sonic exhibition, live performance, a radio ballad and a documentary film to tour/engage with other National Trust coastal sites. Another e-book about these participatory methods of sonic engagement will bring together best practice from elsewhere, critically reflecting on the sonic experiments undertaken in the project.