Portrayals of Prehistoric Tràng An

要求提供资金，以便将现有项目(SundASIA)的研究成果转化为越南Tráng an Landscape Complex世界遗产内的公众参与形式。拟议的活动将对一项为期5年(2020-25年)的文化遗产计划做出重要贡献，该计划是根据世界遗产委员会在2018年提出的关于考古遗产管理和遗产宣传的具体要求(决定：42 COM 7B.62-https://whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/7291).)而由管理委员会编制的该地产考古记录的主要评估者是由申请人牵头的AHRC/GCRF-Xuan Truong建筑企业共同资助的Sundasia项目(2016-2020年)。这项研究一直在调查过去环境变化对早期人类占领Tráng an景观的影响，以及对应对现代人类引起的气候变化挑战和联合国可持续发展目标的见解。Tráng文化遗产计划的第一阶段涉及将一个非常受欢迎的电影布景景点重建为一个创新的展览空间，展示该财产的杰出普遍价值。一个联合王国和一个管理委员会小组(由申请人领导)于2019年底进行了现场视察。在进一步咨询后，展览的总体设计理念计划纳入和补充围绕该地点(岛屿)的引人注目的森林塔喀斯特山峰。在这种背景下，Sundasia的研究成果将有助于赋予Tráng An深厚的考古记录和自然历史以生命--这是该财产混合入选世界遗产名录的标准。海岛展览将包括两个可交付的要素。室外，主要沿着水边，将是一系列15个真人大小的青铜雕像(为了耐用和易于维护)，人和动物。这些将以一个相互关联的猎人-聚集叙事来描绘史前场景。这些小插曲的放置将确保从该物业的许多旅游船上看到，并将包括忠实地代表该物业丰富的过去生物多样性的动物。划船人将向参观者传达有关展览内容的基本信息，从而引入个性化叙事元素，并鼓励当地工作人员在传达遗产方面发挥积极作用。参观者将有机会下船进入展览的第二个元素：穿过岛中央一座低调的小建筑。它将不引人注意地坐在风景中，提供一种关于过去的信息性和感官体验。拟议的设计将在内部具有洞穴般的特征，同时保留直接的自然光，并通过玻璃天花板看到天空和周围风景。里面的展示空间将包含多个元素，展示SundASIA项目的调查结果。其中包括一个描绘壁炉周围史前活动的洞穴立体图，以及一个有12000年历史的Tráng An居民的中心面部重建。信息展板、视频展示和印刷品将以通俗易懂的非学术语言传达细节，解释该财产的文化遗产的史前故事，影响这一景观的过去和未来的环境变化，以及其生物多样性状况的相关变化。特别要求AHRC提供后续资金，以帮助对当地工作人员进行文化遗产管理方面的培训，记录展览的发展，并通过视觉、论述和印刷媒体向来访的公众介绍Sundasia的成果。

Funding is requested so that research outcomes from an existing project (SUNDASIA) can be translated into forms of public engagement within the Tràng An Landscape Complex World Heritage property, Vietnam. The activities proposed will make key contributions to a 5-year (2020-25) cultural heritage programme that is being prepared by the Tràng An Management Board in response to specific requests from the World Heritage Committee in 2018 regarding archaeological heritage management and heritage promotion (Decision: 42 COM 7B.62-https://whc.unesco.org/en/decisions/7291). The principal evaluator of this property's archaeological record has been the AHRC/GCRF - Xuan Truong Construction Enterprise co-funded SUNDASIA Project (2016-20), led by the Applicant. This research has been investigating the impact of past environmental change on early human occupation of the Tràng An landscape, and the insights that can bring to dealing with modern human-induced climate change challenges and UN Sustainability Goals.The first stage of the Tràng An cultural heritage programme involves redeveloping what has been a hugely popular film set attraction into an innovative exhibition space that showcases the Outstanding Universal Values of the property. Site inspection by a joint UK and Tràng An Management Board team (led by the Applicant) took place in late 2019. Following further consultation, the overall design concept for the exhibition is planned to incorporate and complement the dramatic forested tower karst peaks that surround the location (an island). Against that backdrop research findings from SUNDASIA will help bring to life Tràng An's deep archaeological record and natural history - the criteria of the property's mixed inscription on the World Heritage List. The island exhibition will comprise two deliverable elements. Outside, situated predominantly along the water's edge, will be a series of 15 life-size bronze (for durability and ease of maintenance) figures of human and animals. These will depict prehistoric scenes in an inter-connected hunter-gather narrative. The placement of these vignettes will ensure visibility from the property's many tourist boats and will include animals that faithfully represent the property's rich past biodiversity. Basic information about what is being portrayed will be relayed to visitors by the boat-rowers, thus introducing an element of personalised narrative and investing local staff with an active role in conveying the property's heritage.Visitors will have the opportunity to disembark and enter the second element of the exhibition: a walk through a small low-profile building in the middle of the island. This will sit unobtrusively in the landscape and offer an informative and sensory experience of the past. The proposed design will have a cave-like character inside while retaining direct natural light and views of the sky and surrounding landscape through a glass ceiling. The display space within will contain multiple elements that showcase the findings of the SUNDASIA project. These will include a cave diorama depicting prehistoric activities around a hearth and a centre-piece facial reconstruction of a 12,000 year old inhabitant of Tràng An. Information panels, video displays and printed matter will convey details in accessible non-academic language, explaining the prehistoric story of the property's cultural heritage, past and future environmental changes affecting this landscape, and associated changes in the state of its biodiversity. AHRC Follow-On Funding is specifically requested to contribute towards the training of local staff in cultural heritage management, documenting of the exhibition's development, and presenting SUNDASIA outcomes to the visiting public through visual, discursive and printed media.