Make yourself at home (MY-HOME): Co-curating the South Asian community experience at Southampton

1965年10月10日，《别客气》在BBC一台播出。英国广播公司电台也播出了一个配套的广播节目。该节目的播出标志着BBC在处理移民问题上迈出了关键一步，并对其少数族裔节目产生了持久的影响。在文化日益多元的英国，BBC对自己在公共生活中所扮演角色的看法发生了重大转变，而该剧也标志着南亚移民生活中的一个关键时刻。MY-HOME是一个代际公共参与项目，追溯了“让自己在家”的最初接受和遗产。通过这个展览在南安普顿南亚社区的社区经验的案例研究，我们将探讨这个展览和随后的展览（Nayi Zindagi Naya Jeevan和Gharbar）是如何对南亚侨民身份在英国的建构做出贡献的。该项目是英国广播公司与英国广播公司共同设计的，以纪念英国广播公司成立100周年，该项目的产出将加入该公司的“100个声音”和“我们的故事”系列。通过口述历史访谈节目，参与者推动的研讨会和约翰汉萨德画廊的公共展览，该项目将与我们的第一代，第二代和第三代南亚观众共同创造-该项目将说明BBC在使移民在南安普顿市成为家方面所扮演的角色的长期历史。由于MY-HOME是一个跨代项目，我们将重点关注城市中英国南亚社区的三个特定年龄组。第一代移民年龄在65岁及以上，第二代移民年龄在35-50岁，第三代移民年龄在18- 35岁，参与这个项目将使我们的公众观众有机会分享他们对BBC节目的看法，并阐明他们对公共广播的期望。它将允许他们记录和保存早期与BBC接触的集体记忆，并谈论与BBC接触的障碍。Ofcom最近在2020年进行的一项关于少数民族参与公共广播的研究表明，不同世代的南亚人都在关注BBC，原因包括需要在英国社会中获得更大的归属感，以及与其他祖国建立联系。该项目将使他们能够集体和批判性地阐明这些需求。

On the 10th of October 1965, 'Make yourself at home' was screened on BBC One. A companion radio program also appeared on BBC radio. The screening of this show marked a pivotal move in the BBC's approach to immigration and had a lasting impact on its ethnic minority programming. While the show demonstrated an important shift in how the BBC saw its role in the public life of an increasingly multi-cultural U.K, the programme also marks a crucial moment in the lives of the South Asian migrants. MY-HOME is an intergenerational public engagement project that tracks the initial reception and legacy of 'Make yourself at Home'. Through a case study of the community experience of this show among the South Asian community in Southampton we will explore how this show and others that followed it (Nayi Zindagi Naya Jeevan' and 'Gharbar') contributed to the construction of South Asian diasporic identity in the UK. The project is co-designed with the BBC to mark the centenary year of the BBC and outputs from the project will add to the corporation's collection of 100 Voices and the 'Story of US'. Through a programme of oral history interviews, participant driven workshops and a public exhibition with the John Hansard Gallery which will be co-created with our audience of first, second and third generation South Asians-the project will illustrate the long-term history of BBC's role in making immigrants at home in the city of Southampton. As MY-HOME is an intergenerational project, we will focus on three specific age groups within the British South Asian community of the city.First generation migrants aged 65 and aboveSecond generation migrants aged 35-50Third generation migrants aged 18- 35Engaging with this project will benefit our public audience by allowing them an opportunity to share their thoughts on BBC programming and articulate what it is that they are looking for in public broadcasting. It will allow them to record and save collective memories of early engagement with The BBC and to speak about the impediments to engaging with the BBC. As a recent 2020 Ofcom study on ethnic minority engagement with public broadcasting has illustrated, different generations South Asian are looking at BBC for reasons ranging from the need for greater belonging in British society to connecting with their other homeland. The project will allow them to articulate these needs collectively and critically.