Social Distancing and Reimagining City Life: Performative strategies and practices for response and recovery in and beyond lockdown

COVID-19改变了城市生活：我们现在迫切需要发展富有想象力的想法和创造性实践，以了解和应对其对我们在城市生活和工作方式的影响。绩效理论和实践为实现这一目标提供了创新的、经过验证的、但尚未得到充分探索的方法。该项目将为理解和实践城市生活提供新的模式，帮助人们在实践和情感上应对社交距离。与布里斯托尔、格拉斯哥和纽卡斯尔市议会的战略决策者（已确认）合作，我们将调查日常创新（社会表演）和艺术干预（审美表演），以了解表演如何在社会距离时代重新想象和促进城市生活，以及表演理论和分析如何有助于在五个紧急领域做出更细致、更有创意和可持续的应对和恢复战略和实践：社会凝聚力、新行为、社区恢复力、环境感知和危机管理。该项目将与艺术家、艺术场所和减灾、可持续性和抗灾能力方面的官员合作，使人们对表演的位置和功能有新的认识，促进对应对和恢复的创造性思考，并为艺术战略、大流行病规划和减灾政策提出战略性建议。影响将主要通过核心城市（一个由11个英国城市组成的网络）和艺术战略组织来扩大。该项目以调查人员最近在新奥尔良的工作为基础，该工作导致国土安全和应急准备办公室从根本上改变了他们的减灾政策和实践，并对主要艺术组织的战略进行了重大改变（www.performingcityresilience.com）。

COVID-19 has transformed city life: we now urgently need to develop imaginative ideas and creative practices to understand and address its impact on how we live and work in cities. Performance theory and practice offer innovative, proven, yet under-explored means to achieve this. This project will provide new models for understanding and practising city life, helping people cope with social distancing, both practically and emotionally.Working with strategic decision-makers in Bristol, Glasgow and Newcastle City Councils (confirmed), we will investigate everyday innovations (social performances) and artistic interventions (aesthetic performances), to understand how performance can reimagine and facilitate city life in times of social distancing, and how performance theory and analysis might contribute to more nuanced, creative and sustainable strategies and practices for response and recovery across five urgent areas: social cohesion, new behaviours, community resilience, perceptions of environment, and crisis management.Working with artists, arts venues and officers from hazard mitigation, sustainability and resilience, the project will lead to new understandings of the place and function of performance, broker creative thinking on response and recovery, and make strategic recommendations for arts strategy, pandemic planning and hazard mitigation policy. Impacts will be scaled, primarily, through Core Cities, a network of eleven UK cities, and arts strategy organisations.This project builds on the investigators' recent work in New Orleans, which led the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness to fundamentally change their hazard mitigation policy and practice, and to significant changes in strategies for major arts organisations (www.performingcityresilience.com)