AALERT 4 DM - Art and Artists in Landscape and Environment Research Today for Decision Making

“艺术与艺术家在景观与环境研究中的今日决策”（AALERT 4dm）计划旨在探索和提升艺术研究对景观、土地使用和土地资产相关决策的影响。它以2018年举办的AALERT工作坊（NEC05173）的遗产为基础，以及艺术家在现有研究项目（例如由重视自然计划资助的项目）中的实践和研究的大量贡献。一个关键的焦点是了解如何从艺术和人文的角度可以用来导航景观和决策的文化价值的复杂领域。景观是自然力量和人类活动之间长期和多方面相互作用的动态实体，反映了更广泛的社会经济环境和价值观。明智的土地决策应该同时重视环境、社会、经济、文化和福利价值观。这需要多维的决策方法，以及广泛的不同研究人员、利益相关者和对景观管理感兴趣的决策团体之间的跨学科合作。正是在这种背景下，艺术和人文学科的观点可以做出独特的贡献。虽然艺术和人文学科从业者已经开展了许多活动，包括艺术家、社区和景观决策，但仍有空间将这些活动与规划师、经济学家和其他景观利益相关者的工作更集中地结合起来。有必要广泛的决策者来理解批判性反思和创造力是如何增强景观决策的。人们普遍认为，艺术家能够表达情感和道德判断，并有助于我们对价值观的理解。然而，了解艺术家创造新知识的能力并不是一件小事。它需要被纳入决策模型，以适应经济学家和生态学家等其他专家，并需要参与不同学科领域的潜在哲学、伦理和政治话语。AALERT 4 DM计划将通过跨越学科观点和专业实践，为开展建设性对话提供机会。它将吸引来自不同传统的对景观和土地资产管理有共同兴趣的一系列参与者，包括艺术家、艺术组织、地理学家、人类学家、历史学家、社会学家、哲学家、生态学家、社会科学家、设计师、政策制定者和景观管理者、规划者和监管者以及土地所有者。它将通过一个由五个讲习班（一个范围界定讲习班、三个区域案例研究讲习班和一个综合讲习班）组成的活动计划，使艺术家与更广泛的学者和利益相关者进行对话，并与更广泛的影响活动途径相一致（例如，撰写务静会以产生产出并在社交媒体上积极推广发现）。在24个月的时间里，该网络将批判性地反思来自国内和国外的新兴跨学科和跨学科的例子，以建立对景观和土地利用管理中不同方面的共同理解，并将对艺术和艺术家研究人员在支持新的整体土地决策框架中可以发挥的各种角色（概念，实践，交流）进行清晰的表达。总而言之，从长远来看，这个项目将巩固现有的举措，开辟新的领域，并与不同的学术受众、政策制定和实际景观管理相关。

The Arts and the Artist in Landscape and Environmental Research Today for Decision Making (AALERT 4 DM) project aims to explore and enhance the impact arts research, can make in decision-making related to landscape, land-use and land assets. It builds on the legacy of the AALERT workshop (NEC05173), held in 2018, and considerable contributions of artist practice & research in existing research projects (e.g. projects funded by the Valuing Nature Programme). A key focus is to understand how perspectives from the arts and humanities can be used to navigate the complex territory of cultural values in landscape and decision making. Landscapes are dynamic entities resulting from long and multifaceted interactions between natural forces and human actions that reflect wider socio-economic circumstances and values. Informed decisions about land should appreciate simultaneously environmental, social, economic, cultural, and wellbeing values. This requires multidimensional approaches to decision-making and interdisciplinary collaborations between a broad range of different researchers, stakeholders and decision-making groups with interests in landscape management. It is in this context that perspectives from the arts and humanities can make distinctive contributions. While there is already much activity from the arts and humanities practitioners that involves artists, communities and landscape decision making there is scope to align these more centrally with the work of planners, economists and other stakeholders involved in landscape. There is a need for a broad cross-section of decision makers to understand how critical reflections and creativity can enhance landscape decisions. It widely accepted that artists can articulate emotions and moral judgements and contribute to our understanding of values. However, understanding the ability of artists to create new knowledge, is not a trivial undertaking. It needs to be incorporated into models of decision making that accommodate other specialists such as economists and ecologists and requires engagement with underlying philosophical, ethical and political discourses across diverse subject areas. The AALERT 4 DM programme will provide an opportunity for constructive dialogues to take place by cutting across disciplinary perspectives and professional practices. It will engage a range of actors from different traditions who share an interest in landscape and land assets management including artists, arts organisations, geographers, anthropologists, historians, sociologists, philosophers, ecologists, social scientists, designers, policy-makers and landscape managers, planners and regulators as well as land owners. It will bring artists into dialogue with wider academics and stakeholders through a programme of events consisting of five workshops (a Scoping workshop, three Regional Case Studies workshops, and one Synthesis workshop) and aligned with wider pathways to impact activities (e.g. writing retreats to produce outputs and actively promote findings in social media). In a period of twenty four months the network will critically reflect on emerging interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary examples from this country and abroad to create a shared understanding of the different aspects within landscape and land use management and will develop a clear articulation of the various roles (conceptual, practical, communicative) that arts and artist researchers can play in support of a new holistic land decision-making framework. In sum, this programme will consolidate existing initiatives, break new ground, and be relevant to diverse academic audiences as well as policy development and practical landscape management in the long term.