The Landscapes of Post-War Infrastructure: Cooling down

在这个“影响与参与”项目中，我们将制作一系列互动体验，并利用这些体验收集公众对战后基础设施遗址周围景观价值的意见。我们将在Bluedot 2021上为小学生们展示一款棋盘游戏，一个包含物理和虚拟组件的互动设计体验，以及一个沉浸式的电影体验。Bluedot 2021是一个面向家庭的科学、艺术和音乐节，每年在柴郡的Jodrell Bank天文台举行。这项研究是一个关于战后基础设施景观的更大项目的一部分。作为历史学家、建筑师和景观设计师，我们知道高质量的设计思维和广泛的合作进入了1945年后国家快速现代化的发电站、高速公路、水库周围景观的生产。如果说景观设计师的工作做得很好，那么60年过去了，我们甚至很难认识到有一位专业设计师参与其中。除了创新的设计工作，一个实质性的设施项目也伴随着基础设施的发展。在自然保护区、湿地、社区会堂、高尔夫球场、游乐场、帆船俱乐部等基础设施内及周边地区，各种休闲活动都得到了满足。除了这些正式的、程序化的用途外，其他活动也在这些场地内和周围发展起来——自行车爬山、成套汽车比赛、摩托车竞走。这些景观的价值不仅仅在于它们的用途——大量的煤气表、冷却塔、发电大厅、水坝和桥梁在人们的想象中隐约可见，因为它们在景观中有着强大的存在感，它们象征着战后时期的全面现代化和乐观主义。成千上万的人在这些工厂和供应链上工作，随着我们转向无碳经济，这些景观正在被掩盖。设施和场地本身之间的联系被削弱了，曾经通过工作和娱乐将社区与景观联系起来的纽带被打破了。这些景观将不可避免地发生变化。在这个项目中，我们希望捕捉和代表设计创新，因为我们相信它对未来基础设施景观的设计有价值，无论它们是由什么制成的。我们还想了解这些景观对人们意味着什么，作为景观中的使用者和景观的观赏者，他们是如何看待这些景观的。我们认为这些观点对于理解战后基础设施景观所创造的社会、文化和舒适价值以及这些价值是如何随着时间的推移而演变的非常重要。我们最终的研究结果报告将展示可视化价值的新方法，并同时显示定量和定性数据，以丰富对这些地点变化的阅读和理解，并确保隐藏的价值在决策过程中得到充分体现。在我们现有的网络中，我们拥有来自工业界、学术界、文物界和社区的一系列利益相关者。我们已经在我们的研究网络活动中建立了一些公共活动，但这个提议使我们能够接触到更广泛的人群，并为研究带来更多的声音。这种身临其境的电影体验将被用于吸引年龄较大的儿童和成年人，并将成为一种文献娱乐形式，它使用新的口述历史、档案声音和电影录音、新的音乐、新的镜头来创造一种叙事作品，讲述基础设施遗址的诞生、生活、死亡和来世。所有这些元素将在2019年的Bluedot上一起展示，届时将有超过19000名参观者参加。这些作品将用于产生关于景观的无形价值的多代人的话语，结果将纳入我们的最终政策建议通知。

In this Impact and Engagement project we will produce a series of interactive experiences and use these to gather public opinions about the value of landscapes around sites of post-war infrastructure. We will present a board game for primary school children, an interactive design experience with physical and virtual components and an immersive filmic experience at Bluedot 2021, a family orientated science, arts and music festival held annually at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire.This research is part of a larger project about the Landscapes of Post-War Infrastructure. As historians, architects and landscape architects, we know that high quality design thinking and extensive collaboration went into the production of the landscapes around sites of power stations, motorways, reservoirs in the rapid modernisation of the country after 1945. If the landscape architect did their job really well, then 60 years on, it is hard to recognise that a professional designer was even involved. Alongside the innovative design work, a substantial programme of amenity provision accompanied the development of infrastructure. All sorts of leisure were catered for in and around infrastructural sites - nature reserves, wetlands, community halls, golf courses, playgrounds, sailing clubs. As well as these formal, programmed uses, other activities have grown in and around these sites - cycling hill climbing, kit car racing, motorbike scrambling. The value of these landscapes is not just in their use though - the massive forms of gasometers, cooling towers, generator halls, dams and bridges loom large in the imagination as many had powerful presence in the landscape and they symbolise the sweeping modernisation and optimism of the post-war period. Thousands of people were employed on these sites and in the supply chainsAs we move to a carbon free economy, these landscapes are being dissembled. The association between the amenities and the sites themselves is weakened and the ties that once bound communities with their landscapes through both work and play are broken. It is inevitable that these landscapes will change. In this project we want to capture and represent the design innovation as we believe it has value to the design of future infrastructural landscapes, whatever they are made from. We also want to discover what these landscapes mean to people, how they value the landscapes, as users inside the landscapes and as viewers of the landscape. We think that these views are really important in understanding the social, cultural and amenity values that landscapes of post-war infrastructure created and how these values have evolved with the sites over time.Our eventual reporting of our findings will show new ways of visualising value and showing quantitative and qualitative data together to enrich the readings and understandings of these sites as they change and to make sure that the hidden values are adequately represented in decision making processes. In our existing network we have a range of stakeholders from industry, academia, the heritage sector and communities. We have built in some public events to our Research Network activities, but this proposal allows us to reach a much broader section of the population and to bring more voices to the research.The immersive filmic experience will be used to engage older children and adults and will be a form of docu-tainment that uses new oral histories, archival sound and film recordings, new music, new footage to create a narrative work that speaks of the birth, life, death and afterlife of sites of infrastructure. All of the elements will be presented together at Bluedot, where, in 2019, over 19000 visitors attended. The works will be used to generate a multi-generational discourse about the intangible values of landscapes and the results will feed into our final policy advice notice.