Morecambe Bay Timescapes; Engaging Young People in Visualising Coastal Futures

该项目旨在帮助年轻人了解气候变化将如何塑造莫克姆湾及其社区的未来。通过汇集过去和未来海岸变化的信息，以及个人历史，该项目将反思未来的选择，以及建立社区应对环境挑战的不同方式。目前的预测显示，海平面上升和极端天气事件将对全球沿海地区产生重大影响。然而，个别沿海社区的具体情况会有很大差异，这在很大程度上取决于当地的地质、气候、基础设施和社区的准备情况。提出区域风险评估和战略的海岸线管理计划是可用的，但这些文件的专门格式和使用的语言使公众实际上无法获得这些计划。此外，这些文件忽视了沿海社区的观点，以及过去受洪水和天气事件影响的人们所掌握的隐性知识。收集当地的知识并使其易于阅读，对于了解气候变化对特定地区的影响以及为当地政策和公众参与决策提供信息至关重要。在这个项目中，兰开斯特圣母学院、莫克姆湾学院、卡福斯高中和兰开斯特莫克姆学院的学生将与设计、计算和环境科学方面的研究人员合作，基于一种创新的跨学科方法，将预测模型、公民科学和民族志方法结合在一起，创建特定地点沿海过去和未来的可视化。这些可视化图像将以立体照片卷的形式呈现，并配有杂志（也由学生制作），讲述沿海地区的过去和未来。他们将展示由研究人员和年轻人根据项目第一阶段收集的数据共同制作的故事、问题和图像。每本杂志都有一张地图，表明立体镜的沿海位置，用于将视觉效果带入生活。当通过相应的立体镜观察时，打印在卷轴上的图像将呈现为三维可视化。传感器还将为观众激活带有声音、故事和关键问题的音频轨道。这些视听“时光逃离”将在海岸未来节期间作为特定地点的装置展出，让市民透过海岸变化的镜头来观察周围的环境。这是一种创新的方法，它使学生能够设计和制作用于创建沉浸式可视化的工具。该项目将立体视觉的光学和机械工具用于一个新颖的、创造性的目的。不需要编程、专有软件或昂贵的设备，年轻人将完全控制整个过程。作为海岸未来节的一部分，学生们将参与一系列讲座和活动，与当地议会和环境组织分享他们的可视化设计，包括环境署、西北海岸集团和论坛、海沙姆遗产中心、兰开夏郡档案馆和兰开斯特市议会。该活动将促进有关地方未来的对话，以及公共和专业机构以及社区成员在规划应对和适应气候变化方面可以发挥的作用，为年轻人如何在这些过程中发挥积极作用展示明确的途径。

This project aims to help young people understand how climate change will shape the future of Morecambe Bay and the communities that inhabit it. By bringing together information on past and future coastal changes, and personal histories, this project will reflect on alternative futures and different ways to build community preparedness to environmental challenges.Current predictions show the significant impact that sea level rise and extreme weather events will have on coastal areas worldwide. However, what exactly will happen to individual coastal communities will vary greatly, and will largely depend on local geology, climate, infrastructures and community preparedness. Shoreline management plans presenting regional risk assessment and strategies are available, but the specialised formats and the language used in these documents make them effectively inaccessible to the public. In addition, these documents disregard the perspectives of coastal communities, and the tacit knowledge developed by people who have been affected by flooding and weather events in the past. Collecting localised knowledge and making it readable to the lay public is essential both to understand the impact of climate change in specific places and to inform local policies and public participation in decision making.In this project, students at Lancaster Our Lady's College, Morecambe Bay Academy, Carnforth High School, and Lancaster and Morecambe College will work with researchers in design, computing, and environmental science to create visualisations of place-specific coastal pasts and futures based on an innovative interdisciplinary methodology that brings together predictive models, citizen science, and ethnographic approaches. These visualisations will be presented as reels of stereographs accompanied by zines (also produced by the students) telling stories of coastal pasts and futures. They will reveal stories, questions, and images co-produced by researchers and young people, based on data collected in the first stage of the project. Each zine will feature a map indicating the coastal location of the stereoscope to use for bringing the visualisations to life. When looked at through the corresponding stereoscope, the images printed on the reel will appear as tri-dimensional visualisations. A sensor will also activate an audio track with sounds, stories, and critical questions for the audience. These audio-visual 'Timescapes' will be displayed during a Coastal Futures Festival as site-specific installations, which will enable members of the public to look at their surroundings through the lenses of costal change. This is an innovative approach, which enables students to design and produce the tools that are used to create immersive visualisations. The project appropriates the optical and mechanical tools of stereoscopy for a novel, creative purpose. No programming, proprietary software, or expensive equipment will be necessary, and young people will have full control over the whole process. As part of the Coastal Futures Festival, students will be engaged in a programme of talks and events in which they will share their visualisations with local councils, and environmental groups, including Environment Agency, North West Coastal Group & Forum, Heysham Heritage Centre, Lancashire Archives, and Lancaster City Council. The event will act as a catalyst for conversations on local futures and the role that public and professional bodies and members of the community can play in planning for response and adaptation to climate change, showing clear pathways for how young people can play an active role in these processes.