Creative landscape futures: making decisions with the arts and humanities

这个研究网络将汇集学者和一系列利益相关者，探索艺术和人文研究可以为景观决策做出贡献的方式。我们的重点是苏格兰，它有自己的法律环境和独特的土地所有权形式——以及独特的景观——我们也将与英国其他地区和其他地区建立联系。我们将举办一系列研讨会，分享见解，其中一些由非学术界持份者主持，并进行进一步的实地访问，与持份者会面。我们的学术参与者来自人类学、艺术、考古学、法律和其他领域。我们还有自由艺术家和考古学家，三个艺术组织，苏格兰历史环境，苏格兰国民信托，森林研究和苏格兰景观研究所。虽然苏格兰以集中在高地的大型私人庄园而闻名，但实际上，参与土地所有权和管理的组织和社区种类繁多。自权力下放以来，历届苏格兰政府进行的土地改革过程中，许多人都得到了支持。这为景观管理带来了新的方向，例如重新放养和生态恢复、可再生能源倡议和遗产管理，这些通常与农业、林业和野外运动的“传统”土地用途并存。通过艺术和人文研究，我们的网络有机会探索这些不同景观的历史，记录当前的决策方式，并为他们的未来提供新的可能性。我们将“创造力”作为我们网络的关键词。通过创造性的景观，我们想强调一种对中性背景或西方艺术主流传统风景的替代。我们认为，景观是人类和其他生物居住的场所和创造性活动。我们的网络将探索艺术和人文研究如何认识到与景观的普通关系的创造力，并将其作为决策的一个因素。这就是我们的“创意景观未来”将会出现的方式。我们将通过我们网络的前三个具体目标来阐明创造力的概念。首先，我们将通过我们网络中的各种学科视角，并直接通过实地考察和利益相关者参与，探索文化价值与景观关系的出现。对景观决策有用的文化价值概念，超越了经济和环境的基本原理（尽管不否认其重要性），将成为影响的关键主题。其次，我们将推广更广泛参与的模式，并设法让持份者、社区和公众参与景观决策，从社会参与的艺术和社区遗产等方面汲取经验。第三，我们将发展一个广义的时间性概念——我们指的是对时间质量的理解——在景观决策中将过去、现在和未来联系起来。我们的考古学和遗产参与者将展示小尺度故事的重要性，以及苏格兰景观的“大叙事”。我们的第四个目标是调查苏格兰的案例研究，并与英国及其他地区进行比较。我们将借鉴网络参与者的研究成果，但也会相互询问和挑战，以考虑我们的工作对决策的具体意义。为此，我们将进行实地考察，与一系列景观环境中的利益相关者会面。第五，我们将共同努力，为包括土地所有者和管理者、决策者、社区和更广泛的公众在内的受众综合网络的发现。除了为学术和利益相关者观众提供书面输出外，我们还将举办一个展览，由我们网络的艺术主导和其他贡献组成。一个网站也将记录和存档我们的工作。

This research network will bring together academics and a range of stakeholders to explore the ways that arts and humanities research can contribute to decision-making about landscapes. Our focus is Scotland, which has its own legal setting and distinctive forms of land ownership - and distinctive landscapes - and we will also make connections with the rest of the UK and beyond. We will hold a series of seminars to share insights, with some hosted by our non-academic stakeholder participants, and carry out further field visits to meet with stakeholders. Our academic participants come from anthropology, art, archaeology, law and others. We also have freelance artists and archaeologists, three arts organisations, Historic Environment Scotland, National Trust for Scotland, Forest Research, and Landscape Institute Scotland.While Scotland is known for the concentration of large, privately-owned estates in the Highlands, there are in fact a wide diversity of organisations and communities involved in land ownership and management. Many have been supported through the land reform process carried out by successive Scottish governments since devolution. This has led to new directions for landscape management, such as rewilding and ecological restoration, renewable energy initiatives, and sites managed for heritage, which often sit alongside the 'traditional' land uses of farming, forestry and field sports. Using arts and humanities research, our network has the opportunity to explore the history of these diverse landscapes, document current ways of making decisions, and promote new possibilities for their futures.We use 'creativity' as a key word for our network. By creative landscape, we want to emphasise an alternative to a neutral backdrop or the scenery of mainstream traditions of Western art. Landscape, we argue, is the site and creative activity of dwelling for humans and other beings. Our network will explore how arts and humanities research can recognise the creativity of ordinary relationships with landscape and make this a factor in decision-making too. This is how our 'creative landscape futures' will emerge.We will articulate the idea of creativity through the first three concrete objectives of our network. First, we will explore the emergence of cultural values in relations with landscape through the various disciplinary perspectives in our network, and directly through field visits and stakeholder engagement. Notions of cultural value that are useful for landscape decision-making, and go beyond economic and environmental rationales (although without denying their significance), will be a key theme for impact.Second, we will promote models for wider participation and find ways to involve stakeholders, communities and the public in landscape decision-making, drawn from socially-engaged art and community heritage amongst others.Third, we will develop a broad notion of temporality - by which we mean an understanding of the qualities of time - to connect between past, present and future in landscape decision-making. Our archaeology and heritage participants will show the importance of smaller scale stories of places, as well as the 'grand narratives' of the Scottish landscape.Our fourth objective is to investigate case studies in Scotland and comparisons to the UK and beyond. We will draw on our network participants' research, but also interrogate and challenge each other to consider the significance of our work specifically for decision-making. To do this we will conduct field visits to meet stakeholders in a range of landscape settings.Fifth, we will work together to synthesise the findings of the network for audiences including landowners and managers, policy-makers, communities and the wider public. As well as written outputs for academic and stakeholder audiences, we will host an exhibition with arts-led and other contributions from our network. A website will also document and archive our work.