Sonorous Landscapes: Using sound and creative design methods to capture and communicate biodiversity in an urban forest

该项目旨在解决城市社区、城市设计专业人士和政策制定者在城市林地和围场环境下积极保护生物多样性的挑战。通过斯劳自治市议会（SBC）的数字城市森林（DUF），该项目将设计和测试创新的基于时间的方法的有效性：1)通过声音捕捉生物多样性的变化水平；2)通过创造性的数字方法传播这些变化，让观众参与到传感和数据中来。这项研究将鼓励积极的社区管理SBC的绿色转型倡议-特别是DUF的重新造林和再放野活动。它将测试其方法在改变对生物多样性的看法和创造切实证据以支持改善生物多样性的城市设计和政策干预方面的有效性。它将支持气候和环境教育倡议，提高人们对城市环境中生物多样性重要性的认识，涵盖从艺术和人文到设计、科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）等学科。通过设计让利益相关者参与有关生物多样性的措施和话语的示范方法，该研究旨在加强对城市生态的管理，并接受解决气候危机迫切需要的社会变革。该研究将开发和试点创新的无人值守现场记录方法、分析和创造性的基于时间的可视化。它将建立在先前由研究助理Rupert Griffiths交付的四个传感器和创意通信项目的基础上，这些项目由Joy Welch博士后基金、AHRC影响加速账户、Universität波恩TRA可持续未来基金和城市树木挑战基金（DEFRA）资助。这些项目为提议的项目奠定了坚实的基础，开发和测试了底层的基础设施、技术和参与技术。研究问题是：RQ1：社区、设计专业人士和政策制定者对城市生物多样性和野生化的重视是什么？RQ2：创造性的方法、生物声学传感器和基于时间的可视化如何向广大受众阐明生物多样性的变化？RQ3：关于生物多样性的实时信息如何影响利益相关者的价值观、参与和对环境的管理？该研究解决了一些挑战，如需要揭示和理解城市社区对生物多样性和野生化的价值观、观念和文化联系。它旨在促进社区参与和参与自然保育。通过提供不同时间尺度的城市绿地生物多样性的实时信息，该项目探索了数据如何影响社区参与和生物多样性的价值观。这将有助于城市内部的绿色转型，并发展更具可持续性和弹性的城市生态系统。

onorous Landscapes aims to address the challenge of engaging urban communities, urban design professionals, and policy makers in proactive biodiversity conservation within the context of urban woodlands and coppicing paddocks. Through Slough Borough Council's (SBC) Digital Urban Forest (DUF), the project will design and test the efficacy of innovative time-based methods for i) capturing changing levels of biodiversity through sound and ii) communicating these changes through creative digital methods that engage audiences with sensing and data. The research will encourage active community stewardship of SBC's green transition initiatives—specifically, the DUF's reforestation and rewilding activities. It will test the efficacy of its methods in changing perceptions of biodiversity and creating tangible evidence to support urban design and policy interventions that improve biodiversity. It will support climate and environment education initiatives that raise awareness of the importance of biodiversity in urban settings, spanning subjects from arts and humanities to design, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). By designing exemplary means of engaging stakeholders in measures and discourse regarding biodiversity, the research aims to increase stewardship of urban ecologies and embrace the societal changes that are urgently needed to address the climate crisis.The research will develop and pilot innovative unattended field-based recording methods, analysis, and creative time-based visualizations. It will build upon four sensor and creative communication projects previously delivered by the Research Associate Rupert Griffiths and funded by the Joy Welch Post-doctoral Fund, AHRC Impact Acceleration Account, Universität Bonn TRA Sustainable Futures fund, and the Urban Tree Challenge Fund (DEFRA). These projects have laid a solid foundation for the proposed project, developing and testing the underlying infrastructure, technologies, and engagement techniques.The research questions are:RQ1: What values do communities, design professionals, and policymakers attach to urban biodiversity and rewilding?RQ2: How can creative methods, bioacoustic sensors, and time-based visualizations articulate changes in biodiversity to broad audiences?RQ3: How does live information about biodiversity influence stakeholder values, engagement, and stewardship towards the environment?The research addresses challenges such as the need to uncover and understand values, perceptions, and cultural associations among urban communities towards biodiversity and rewilding. It aims to foster community engagement and involvement in conservation. By providing accessible live information about biodiversity within urban green spaces over various timescales, the project explores how data influences community engagement and values regarding biodiversity. This will contribute to green transition within cities and developing more sustainable and resilient urban ecosystems.