Red River: Listening to a Polluted River

西康沃尔郡的红河被描述为英国最“不自然”或“改造”的河流。这条7.5英里长的铁路没有一处不受康沃尔语锡矿开采业的影响。虽然这条河只不过是一条小溪，但它在康沃尔的工业革命和世界各地硬岩采矿业的发展中发挥了重要作用。这一重要性已被指定为联合国教科文组织世界遗产。它仍然是一个创新的源泉，需要开发新技术，以减少污染的重金属负载矿井水，饲料到它的过程。尽管有这些污染物，红河还是有一群基因独特的褐鳟鱼，它们已经进化到能够在有毒的环境中生存。这些鱼和康沃尔语的发动机一样，都是工业革命的产物。在一首诗中，它们可能与河流本身一起沿着运作，作为我们与环境复杂互动的多维转喻。这种自然、工业和后工业历史的结合使红河成为一个丰富的主题，可以对人与自然的相互关系进行生态诗意和批判性的探索。该奖学金将测试创造性写作的能力，作为“实践作为研究”，通过结合批判性的文本研究，实地考察，诗歌创作和社会参与的研究实践，创造已知的知识，揭示这种相互关系的复杂性。海滩清洁、环保行动、媒体宣传和立法都引起了人们对塑料成瘾对世界海洋和河流的影响的关注。通过与当地社区和合作伙伴的合作，该奖学金将提供诗歌作为个人和社区参与改变环境所产生的社会意义的聚集地。该项目将解决与红河有关的可见和不可见的污染，以及对更广阔景观的可见和不可见的感受;它将解决欧盟资助的招牌的引人注目的历史，以及那些生活在受污染的沿着的人的无形和短暂的历史。红河位于达特河和塞文河等著名河流旁边，通过它所体现的复杂的人与自然的互动，野生，崇高和风景如画的理念，它可能会成为一个典型的“影子网站”。这项实践研究调查的集水区将通过对考古报告，SSSI声明，历史文献，河流文献，生态诗学，声学生态学、访问当地社区团体和学校、采访水生生态学和采矿方面的专家、实地考察和河流测量。它将借用“生态交错带”的生态概念，或生物群落的交汇点，作为阅读红河边缘环境的概念工具，并作为文本塑造方式的隐喻，并通过对生态物体的密切观察而改变。该奖学金将导致一本书长度的诗，声音装置，并从通过实践作为研究产生的知识派生的学术文章。研究结果将在会议、文学活动、艺术画廊和遗产地展示。该奖学金将展示领导力，为社会参与的研究开发新的方法，并进行跨学科的艺术/科学合作。这些研究结果将在特定学科的会议上和网上分享。它将为学校共同制作教育材料，并策划一个“废物议会”活动，将当地人民、政治家、艺术家和专家聚集在一起，讨论污染和废物对健康和福祉的环境影响。

The Red River in West Cornwall has been described as the most 'unnatural' or 'modified' river in the UK. No part of its 7.5mile length has been untouched by the effects of the Cornish tin-mining industry. Although little more than a stream, the river has played an important role in the industrial revolution in Cornwall and the development of hard-rock mining around the world. This significance has been recognised by the designation of the area through which it flows as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It continues to be a source of innovation by necessitating the development of new techniques to reduce pollution from the heavy-metal laden mine water that feed into its course. Despite these contaminants, the Red River contains a genetically-unique population of brown trout that has evolved to survive its toxic environment. These fish are as much artefacts of the industrial revolution as Cornish engine-houses. In a poem they may operate, along with the river itself, as multi-dimensional metonyms for our complex interaction with the environment. This combination of natural, industrial and post-industrial history makes the Red River a rich subject for an eco-poetic and critical exploration of the human/nature interrelationship. The fellowship will test the ability of creative writing as 'practice-as-research' to create knew knowledge that reveals the complexity of this interrelationship through combining critical textual research, fieldwork, poetic composition and socially-engaged research practices.There is a growing understanding that we need to confront the mess we're making of our environment. Beach cleans, environmental activism, media campaigns and legislation have drawn attention to the impact our addiction to plastic has had on the world's oceans and rivers. Through working with local communities and partners the fellowship will offer poetry as a gathering place for the social meaning generated by individuals and communities involved in changing their environment. The project will address both visible and invisible pollution connected with the Red River, and visible and invisible feelings about the wider landscape; it will address the conspicuous history of EU-funded signboards, as well as the invisible and ephemeral histories of those who live along its contaminated banks. Set alongside more celebrated rivers like the Dart and the Severn, the Red River may come to operate as an exemplary 'shadow site' counterpointing, through the complex human/nature interaction it embodies, ideas of the wild, sublime and picturesque.The catchment area for this practice-as-research investigation will be mapped through research into archaeological reports, SSSI statements, historical documents, the literature of rivers, eco-poetics, acoustic ecology, visits to local community groups and schools, interviews with subject experts in aquatic ecology and mining, field-walking and river surveying. It will borrow the ecological concept of the 'ecotone', or meeting place of biomes, as a conceptual instrument for both reading the marginal environments of the Red River and as a metaphor for the way texts shape and are altered by close observation of ecological objects. The fellowship will result in a book length poem, a sound installation, and a scholarly article derived from the knowledge generated through practice-as-research. Findings will be presented at conferences, literary events, in art galleries and heritage sites. The fellowship will demonstrate leadership in developing new methodologies for socially-engaged research and conducting trans-disciplinary arts/science collaborations. These findings will be shared at discipline-specific conferences and online. It will co-produce educational materials for schools and curate a 'Parliament of Waste' event bringing together local people, politicians, artists and experts to debate the environmental impact of pollution and waste on health and wellbeing.