Multisensory multispecies storytelling to engage disadvantaged groups in changing landscapes

该项目将使用多物种讲故事的方式，让西北地区的弱势群体参与有关景观和土地利用的决策过程。该项目是继成功的AHRC“通过艺术将弱势青年与风景联系起来”、“Stories2Connect”和“多物种讲故事：比人类对风景的叙述更多”项目的基础上开展的，所有这些项目都以参与性的方式使用讲故事的方式。这些项目与处境不利和残疾的年轻人、儿童以及社区农场用户的不同群体合作。正在将从以前的项目中获得的方法和经验综合起来，以吸引新的受众，与新的利益攸关方组织合作，并制定新的工作主题。具体地说，该项目将使用多物种讲故事来开发关于风景的多感官艺术品，捕捉被边缘化社区和弱势群体的声音，并回应各种不同的理解世界的方式。通过橡树的“记忆”来理解一幅风景，像蜜蜂一样“看”这片土地，或者通过触摸或嗅觉来体验一个空间，这都会吸引人们从不同的角度、通过其他的时间框架和尺度来思考风景和土地利用。多物种办法一直有效地让人们参与解决与生物多样性丧失和气候变化有关的问题，并可鼓励识别和联系居住在这些物种上的土地、环境和其他物种。它们还促使人们考虑谁在讲述关于景观的故事，以及谁能够讲述这些故事。后续资金将用于扩大与现有项目相关的组织的合作，并加强项目与新的利益相关者组织的覆盖范围和影响。与Burscough社区农场、Rusland Horizons Trust、Blackpool Council、Art gene、儿童图书作家和插画家协会、当地艺术家和专业讲故事人的联系将保持不变，并将通过后续资金与国家自闭症协会、自然英格兰、野禽和湿地信托基金Martin More、威廉姆森艺术画廊和博物馆以及教堂画廊建立新的合作伙伴关系。通过合作伙伴，该项目将继续与社区农场用户和残疾青年合作，还将包括在国家自闭症协会的协助下患有自闭症的青年。该项目将通过新的和现有的合作伙伴，将以前项目的地理覆盖范围进一步扩大到西北地区，通过同意提供展览和活动场地的伙伴组织接触到新的受众。该项目将利用以前项目中开发的创新参与式方法和资源，用于共同创作一系列新的多感官文物，这些文物将被策划并在西北地区不同的室内和室外地点展出。开发的多感官文物和环境将使用多物种讲故事，以及视觉方面，还可能利用例如声音、气味、空间和触觉来回应广泛的潜在用户的需求和理解，而不是优先考虑传统的或有限的与世界的感官接触。展览将与主要活动相伴，利益相关者团体和在景观和土地使用方面有既得利益的组织的决策者将被邀请参加。

The project will use multispecies storytelling to engage disadvantaged groups in the north west in decision making processes about landscape and land use. The project follows on from the successful AHRC 'Connecting disadvantaged young people with landscape through arts', 'Stories2Connect' and 'Multispecies Storytelling: More than human narratives about landscape' projects, all of which use storytelling in participatory ways. These projects have worked with disadvantaged and disabled young people, children, and diverse groups of community farm users. The methods and learning gained from previous projects are being brought together and synthesised to engage new audiences, collaborate with new stakeholder organisations and develop new themes of work. Specifically, the project will use multispecies storytelling to develop multisensory artefacts about landscape that capture the voices of marginalised communities and disadvantaged groups and respond to a variety of different ways of making sense of the world. Understanding a landscape from the 'memory' of an oak tree, 'seeing' the land as a bee might, experiencing a space as a soundscape or through touch or smell invites thinking about landscape and land use from different perspectives, through other timeframes and scales. Multispecies approaches have been effective in engaging people with issues related to biodiversity loss and climate change and can encourage identifications and connections with land, environments and other species who inhabit them. They also prompt consideration of whose stories about landscape are being told, and who is enabled to tell them.The follow on funding will be used to expand work with organisations linked to the existing projects and enhance the reach and impact of the projects with new stakeholder organisations. Connections with Burscough Community Farm, Rusland Horizons Trust, Blackpool Council, Art Gene, the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, local artists and professional storytellers will be maintained and new partnerships with the National Autistic Society, Natural England, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Martin Mere, Williamson Art Gallery and Museum and The Chapel Gallery will be enabled by the follow on funding. Through the partners, the project will continue to work with community farm users and young people with disabilities and will also include young people with autism, facilitated by the National Autistic Society. The project will, through new and existing partners, expand the geographical coverage of the previous projects further across the north west to reach new audiences through the partner organisations that have agreed to provide venues for exhibitions and events.The project will utilise innovative participatory methodologies and resources developed in the previous projects which will be applied in the co-creation of a new series of multisensory artefacts that will be curated and exhibited at different indoor and outdoor sites across the north west. The multisensory artefacts and environments developed will use multispecies storytelling and, as well as visual aspects, may also employ, for example, sound, smell, space and touch to respond to the needs and understandings of a wide range of potential users, rather than prioritising traditional or limited sensory engagements with the world. The exhibitions will be accompanied by key events to which decision makers from stakeholder groups and those organisations with vested interests in landscape and land use will be invited.