Understanding Landscapes through Creative Auto-Ethnographies

传统上，地理学家一直对风景感兴趣，但在理解人们如何通过文学创造一种地方感和对风景的依恋方面并不是很成功。另一方面，当识字学者研究文学和风景时，他们倾向于用抽象的或纯粹的理论术语来研究。他们还关注出版的小说家和诗人，而不是传统上关注普通的、真实的人，他们部分通过写作自己和他们的日常生活来表达自己的身份。在这一系列研讨会中，地理学家和识字学者被聚集在一起，寻找共同点，开辟理解风景的新方法，借鉴和结合他们的学科优势，解决他们的不同弱点。我们将主办一系列活动，首先是为地理学家、扫盲学者和相关学科(如文化研究)的其他人举办为期两天的研讨会。这将为康沃尔的三个作家活动奠定基础，这些活动将分别为小学生、年轻人(16-19岁)和作家团体的成年人举办。这些活动的目的是让人们思考和写作景观，以及景观如何改变他们是谁，以及他们如何与地方建立联系。康沃尔以鼓舞作家、艺术家和富有创造力的人而享有盛誉，这使它成为探索日常生活中景观意义的理想场所。这些活动将被拍摄下来，小组使用微型光盘记录器进行采访。随后将举行另一次研讨会，讨论编剧们的活动，会上将展示电影和录音的节选，并展示创意写作的例子。来自年轻人和成年人群体的一些作家将加入学者的行列，分享分析作家事件的过程。最后，一个学术会议将总结对未来景观和文学工作的更广泛影响。这个项目给研究人员带来的好处与我们将与之合作的作家社区的好处相当。小学生们将参加一个作家活动，该活动是地理和识字单元的一部分。这将由总部设在康沃尔的课程开发组织Sense Od Place推动，该组织也将受益于与小学生合作的新见解。这些年轻人将从特鲁罗学院的副学位和基础水平的文学课程中挑选出来。他们的作家活动将与我的这些节目的目标一起设计，并将提高年轻人对风景在他们自我意识中所起作用的认识。面向年轻人的作家活动也将提高人们在学位水平上进一步学习的愿望。最后，成人作家的活动将鼓励更多的自我意识、反思和新的创作可能性，因为他们的创作技能已经得到了更好的发展。儿童、年轻人和成年人将看到他们的作品发表在该项目的创意写作选集中，并可以访问该项目的网站。总体而言，该项目是埃克塞特大学在当地社区推广活动的一部分，目的是将学者聚集在一起参加一系列创新的研讨会。

Traditionally, geographers have been interested in landscape but have not been very successful in understanding how people create a sense of place and an attachment to landscape through literature. When literacy scholars, on the other hand, study literature and landscape, they tend to do this in abstract or purely theoratical terms. They also focus on published novelists and poets and have not traditionally paid attention to ordinary, real people who express their identities in part through writing about themselves and their everyday lives.In this series of workshops, geographers and literacy scholars are brought together to find common ground and open up new ways of understanding landscape that draw on and combine their disciplinary strengths and address their different weaknesses. We will host a series of events, beginning with a two day symposium for geographers, literacy scholars and others from related disciplines (e.g. cultural studies). This will prepare the ground for three writers' events in Cornwall which will be run for primary school children, young people (aged 16-19) and adults from writers' groups, respectively. The aim of these events is to get people thinking and writing about landscape and how landscape makes a difference to who they are and how they develop a connection with place. Cornwall's well established reputation for inspiring writers, artists, and creative people makes it an ideal place in which to explore the meaning of landscape in everyday life. These events will be filmed, with small groups interviewed using a minidisk recorder.They will be followed up with another symposium, to discuss the writers' events, at which excerpts from the film and audio recordings will be shown and examples of the creative writing presented. Academics will be joined by some of the writers from the groups of young people and adults to share in the process of analysing the writers' events. Finally, an academic conference will sum up the broader implications for future work on landscape and literature.The benefits to the researchers of this project are matched by those to the community of writers with whom we will work. The primary school children will particpate in a writers' event designed as part of a geography and literacy cucciculum unit. This will be facilitated by the Cornwall-based curriculum development organisation, Sense od Place, which will also benefit from new insights into working with primary school children. The young people will be drawn from Truro College's sub-degree and foundation level literature programmes. Their writers' event will be designed with the aims of these programmes in mine and will raise awareness amongst the young people of the role that landscape plays in their sense of self. The writers' event for young people will also raise aspiration for further study at degree level. Finally, the adult writers' event will encourage greater self-awareness, reflection and new creative possibilities for a group whose creative writing skills are already more well developed. The children, young people and adults will see their work published in an anthology of creative writing from the project and will have access to the project website.Overall, the project forms part of the University of Exeter's outreach activity in local communities as well as serving the purpose of bringing together academics in an innovative series of workshops.