The Making and Re-Making of Port-Sunlight. Studying a Community in Flux: A Sense of Time and Place

阳光港成立于1888年，是一个模范工人村，为利弗兄弟肥皂厂的员工提供住所（当时总部也在那里）。阳光港位于维拉尔半岛，是一个住宅区、一个主要的艺术画廊、一个剧院、一个博物馆和900多座受保护建筑的所在地。阳光港是一个迷人的历史社会实验，由企业委托建造工业住宅，今天是一个约有2000人的乡村式社区。该项目是一个以建筑为基础的，这是一个理论上知情的研究如何港阳光村的构想由其创始人，随后可视化的文化专业人士（如摄影师，建筑师，规划师），当代居民和游客。这个项目也有兴趣捕捉这个社区正在进行的主要社会变化的当代动画。研究可能涉及以下三个方面：1。对村庄的计划，照片，图纸，模型和地图的档案分析，将揭示随着时间的推移社会空间被想象/重新想象的一些方式。研究人员将在港口阳光博物馆策划他们的工作公开展览;2.最近撰写的港口阳光村信托基金的战略计划的政策分析，在一个时期内，关键的决定，对未来的村庄将作出。分析将侧重于空间决策的实际政治;3.对村庄公共领域进行深入的民族志研究，包括考虑不同时间段对该地方及其人民的过去，现在和未来的影响

Port Sunlight was founded in 1888 as a model workers' village to house employees of the Lever Brothers' soap factory (then also headquartered there). Located on the Wirral Peninsula - and home to a residential site, a major art gallery, a theatre, a museum, and over 900 listed buildings - Port Sunlight represents a fascinating historical social experiment in corporate-commissioned industrial housing that is today a village-style community of circa 2000 people.The project is an empirically-grounded, theoretically-informed study of how Port Sunlight Village was conceived of by its founder, subsequently visualised by cultural professionals (such as photographers, architects, planners), and contemporary residents and visitors. This project is also interested to capture the contemporary animation of the major social changes underway in this community.Research is likely to address the following three areas:1. Archival Analysis of the plans, photographs, drawings, models and maps of the village that will reveal some of the ways in which the social space has been imagined/re-imagined over time. The researcher will curate a public exhibition of their work at Port Sunlight Museum;2. A policy analysis of the recently-authored Port Sunlight Village Trust's Strategic Plan, in a period when crucial decisions concerning the future of the village will be made. Analysis will focus on the practical politics of decision-making with respect to space;3. An in-depth ethnographic study of the public realm of the village, including considerations of the effects of different time periods on the past, present and future of the place and its people