Risky Cities: Living with Water in an Uncertain Future Climate

河口和沿海城市在气候不确定性面前非常脆弱。世界上40%的人口居住在距离海洋100公里以内，沿海人口直接面临海平面上升以及风暴潮、河流洪水风险和降雨量增加的综合影响的风险。社会需要在地方、国家和全球范围内有更强的复原力：河口社区和企业必须学会在不确定的未来“与水共存”。然而，让不同社区参与应对水挑战是各机构和政府面临的一个重大问题，社会中最脆弱的群体往往最不了解抗灾行动。在这里，我们带来了创新的艺术和遗产解决方案，以承担在一个洪水易发城市，金斯顿在船体，英国参与这些社区与洪水风险和建设弹性的问题。船体是全球公认的脆弱性，面对海平面上升的洪水。它是五个被选中参与洛克菲勒基金会和奥雅纳的城市水弹性框架发展计划的全球城市之一。然而，国际社会对船体未来洪水风险的认识在当地社区几乎没有得到反映。尽管在2007年，2013年和2015年发生了严重的洪水事件，以及城市800年的水挑战历史。船体优秀的档案记录和文学和戏剧作品-结合大学在洪水科学和建模，环境历史和文学，社区参与和文化部门评估的专业知识-提供无与伦比的机会，探索城市和周边地区的风险和恢复力的历史。在这个项目中，我们开发研究知情的学习历史，以建立未来的韧性，利用洪水风险的韧性逐年改善和船体及其周围的韧性行动的摄取的野心。与艺术合作伙伴和从业者，洪水机构，年轻人和当地社区一起工作-他们将有助于研究议程的共同制作以及学术和政策相关的产出-我们在以社区为基础的艺术和遗产干预措施中使用这些学习历史，并通过国家艺术组织进行大规模制作，包括绝对文化和国家青年剧院（纽约时报）。在三位常驻艺术家的支持下，我们的研究解决了三个主题问题（在目标和CFS中指定），研究成果既为项目计划的参与活动提供信息，又受到其影响。与项目合作伙伴达成的实质性合作为我们雄心勃勃的艺术和遗产计划带来了更广泛的影响（见PTIs）。使用社会科学方法和参与性工具的组合与社区和青年团体共同设计的艺术评估，我们询问艺术和遗产干预措施的有效性，以提高气候意识，并提供在实际的复原力行动中的吸收，评估参与模式，并制定可在全国和全球应用的最佳实践。通过这样做，我们的目标是提高英国及其他地区风险城市的气候变化意识和洪水抵御能力。该项目的成果包括：在学校，社区和青年团体的“风险”病房中结合艺术和遗产参与的方案;洪水节;高姿态，市中心的艺术作品，由我们的学习历史提供信息，并由社区和青年团体与国家艺术组织，纽约时报和绝对文化合作创建;健全的步行;在主要的国际和跨学科期刊上发表文章，其中一些是与艺术工作者和社区成员合著的;在威斯敏斯特发布了一份政策报告和相关的公共政策简报;一部短片;一个讲习班;以及一个面向公众的网站，提供播客、博客和教材。

Estuarine and coastal cities are acutely vulnerable in the face of climate uncertainty. 40% of the world's population lives within 100km of the sea and coastal populations are directly at risk from rising sea levels and the combined effects of storm surges, fluvial flood risk and increased rainfall. Society needs greater resilience at the local, national and global scale: estuarine communities and businesses must learn to 'live with water' in an uncertain future. Yet engaging diverse communities with water challenges is a significant problem for agencies and governments, with the most vulnerable in societies often the least well informed about resilience actions. Here we bring innovative arts and heritage solutions to bear on the problem of engaging these communities with flood risk and building resilience in one flood-prone city, Kingston upon Hull, UK.Hull is recognised globally for its vulnerability to flooding in the face of rising sea levels. It is one of five global cities selected to participate in the Rockefeller Foundation's and Arup's City Water Resilience Framework development programme. Yet international awareness of Hull's future flood risk finds little reflection in local communities. And this despite serious flood events in 2007, 2013 and 2015, as well as an 800-year history of living with water challenges in the city. Hull's excellent archival records and literary and dramatic works - combined with the University's expertise in flood science and modelling, environmental histories and literature, community engagement and cultural sector evaluation - offer unrivalled opportunities to explore histories of risk and resilience in the city and surrounding area. In this project, we develop research-informed learning histories to build resilience for the future, with the ambition of leveraging a year-on-year improvement in resilience to flood risks and uptake of resilience actions in and around Hull. Working alongside arts partners and practitioners, flood agencies, young people and local communities - who will contribute to the co-production of research agendas as well as academic and policy-relevant outputs - we employ these learning histories in community-based arts and heritage interventions and large scale productions by national arts organisations including Absolutely Cultured and the National Youth Theatre (NYT). Supported by three artists in residence, our research addresses three thematic clusters of questions (specified in the Objectives and CFS), and the research outcomes both inform and are in turn shaped by the engagement activities planned for the project. The substantial collaborations agreed with project partners leverage significant wider reach for our ambitious arts and heritage programme (see PTIs). Using a combination of social science methodologies and participatory tools for arts evaluation co-designed with community and youth groups, we interrogate the effectiveness of arts and heritage interventions to raise climate awareness and deliver an uptake in practical resilience actions, evaluating models for engagement and developing best practice that can be applied nationally and globally. In doing so, we aim to improve climate change awareness and flood resilience in risky cities in the UK and beyond. Outputs from the project include: a programme of combined arts and heritage engagement in schools, community and youth groups in 'at risk' wards; a flood festival; high profile, city centre artistic productions informed by our learning histories and created by community and youth groups in collaboration with national arts organisations, the NYT and Absolutely Cultured; a sound walk; articles in major international and interdisciplinary journals, some of them co-authored with arts practitioners and community members; a policy report and associated public policy brief launched at Westminster; a short film; a workshop; and a public facing website hosting podcasts, blogs and teaching materials.