The Great Climate Change Experiment: Changing Implicit Attitudes Through Creative Arts

“大气候变化实验”是一项跨学科的冒险活动，利用创造性艺术（由具有表演/戏剧背景的P.I.指导），电影（由在电影/媒体方面享有声誉的McQuillan指导）和心理学（由在心理学方面享有国际声誉的Beattie指导）来改变对碳足迹潜在的隐性态度。申请人在该领域的研究记录非常出色，并在领先的国际期刊上发表过文章。在科学（自然气候变化）和艺术和人文（如符号学）。Beattie和McGuire的《气候变化心理学》（2018）指出了减缓气候变化的认知和情感障碍，以及当前气候变化运动中缺失的内容，被The Bookseller（与UCL合作）选为2020年3月学术图书周活动中十大“基本环境读物”之一。他们的研究一致表明，内隐态度比自我报告的态度更能预测人们对气候变化图像、碳标签和可持续选择的视觉关注。内隐态度是通过评估高/低碳足迹与“好”和“坏”等评估概念之间的联系的计算机化任务来衡量的。必须改变对碳足迹的含蓄态度，才能对减缓气候变化产生真正的影响。McQuillan是一位经验丰富、屡获殊荣的电影制作人，他的专著探讨了大学背景下基于实践的研究和电影制作的详细问题。我们将与利物浦柯克比的5所中学合作，学生年龄在14 - 18岁之间：All Saints Catholic High School， Halewood Academy，柯克比高中，Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Prescot School。这是在英格兰西北部一个社会剥夺程度特别高的地区，研究表明，人们对气候变化的兴趣不大。EHU的教育学院已经与这些学校建立了联系。所有学校都同意参加。我们将与年轻人合作，设计基于创意艺术和流行内容的独特节目，使他们更充分地了解气候变化的关键方面。该方法利用了舒尔茨关于与自然的情感联系的开创性工作，以及关于影响情感联系和改变承诺的内隐态度的工作。在9月6日开始项目之前，所有年轻人都将参加一系列的测试，包括测量对碳足迹的隐性态度（使用我们特别设计的碳隐性关联测试），评估关于可持续发展的知识，对气候变化的情感感受等，然后我们将与他们一起参加为期5周的艺术合作研讨会；每个工作坊都将使用涉及情感的创意艺术——戏剧、艺术和创意写作——来探讨气候变化的不同方面。我们将使用“照片之声”来捕捉年轻人在探索与气候变化有关的问题时的感受，这些照片随后将被用来解释主题和叙述，形成年轻人之间讨论的基础。我们将以艺术为基础的评估，包括“表演调查”来评估戏剧活动。他们将制作所有的评价性和反思性材料。整个过程将被记录在电影中，使用基于实践的反思方法来探索态度变化路径中的阻力和偶然性，以及它为基于实践的研究人员提供的偶然性和机会。然后，年轻人将重复测试以衡量变化（10月11日）。报告和纪录片将于11月8日前完成。这部电影将作为一个可以做什么的模型，记录这一变化的过程。11月8日至12月31日期间的首次公众传播。

The 'Great Climate Change Experiment' is an interdisciplinary venture using the creative arts (guided by the P.I. with a background in acting/drama), film (guided by McQuillan with an established reputation in film/media) and psychology (guided by Beattie with an international reputation in psychology) to change underlying implicit attitudes to carbon footprint, The applicants have an excellent track record of research in this area with publications in leading international journals, in both science (Nature Climate Change) and the arts and humanities (e.g. Semiotica). Beattie and McGuire's book 'The Psychology of Climate Change' (2018), which identifies cognitive and emotional barriers to climate change mitigation and what is missing in current climate change campaigns was selected by The Bookseller (in conjunction with UCL) as one of the ten 'essential environment reads' in their Academic Book week campaign in March 2020. Their research has consistently shown that implicit attitudes, measured using a computerised task assessing associative connections between high/low carbon footprint and evaluative concepts like 'good' and 'bad' are better predictors of visual attention to images of climate change, visual attention to carbon labels, and sustainable choices than self-reported attitudes. Implicit attitudes to carbon footprint need to change to make a real difference to climate change mitigation. McQuillan is an experienced, award-winning filmmaker and author of a monograph which explores in detail issues in practice-based research and filmmaking in a university context. We will work with 5 secondary schools in Kirkby, Liverpool, with children aged 14 - 18: All Saints Catholic High School, Halewood Academy, Kirkby High School, Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Prescot School. This in an area of the North West of England marked by particularly high levels of social deprivation and research suggests less interest in climate change. The contact with the schools has already been established through EHU's Faculty of Education. All schools have agreed to take part. We will work with the young people to devise unique programs based on creative arts and popular content that will engage them more fully with key aspects of climate change. The approach utilises the pioneering work of Schultz on emotional connectedness to nature alongside the work on implicit attitudes to impact on emotional connection and commitment to change.All young people will take a series of tests before they start on the programme (6th September), including measurement of implicit attitudes to carbon footprint (using our specially-designed Carbon Implicit Association Test), assessment of knowledge about sustainability, emotional feelings about climate change etc., We will then work with them on artistic collaborative workshops over 5 weeks; each workshop will be about different aspects of climate change using emotionally-involving creative arts - drama, art and creative writing. We will use 'photovoice' to capture how the young people feel when they explore issues related to climate change - the photos will later be used to interpret themes and narratives, forming a basis for discussion amongst the young people. We will use arts based evaluation including 'performative enquiry' to evaluate the drama based activities. They will produce all of the evaluative and reflexive material. This whole process will be documented in film using the methodologies of practice-based reflection to explore the resistances and contingencies within the path of attitudinal change as well as the contingencies and opportunities it presents to the practice-based researcher. The young people will then repeat the tests to measure change (11th Oct.). A report and the documentary film, will be completed by 8th November. The film will act as a model of what can be done, documenting this process of change. Initial public dissemination between 8th November and 31st December.