Living in a Material World: A cross-disciplinary location-based enquiry into the perfomativity of emptiness

对景观和环境的创造性和批判性反应已经从艺术和人文学科的各个领域出现，但跨学科的合作仍然很少，方法方法也受到学科的限制。这一系列基于地点的实验工作坊将与一系列学科、艺术和社区组织合作，为景观和环境的方法提供一个可以比较、组合和放置在批判性反思关系中的舞台。该网络回应了布里斯托尔大学（由Martin White教授与RCUK研究员Jo Carruthers博士和Angela Piccini博士领导）和英格兰西南部和威尔士同事在紧急表演b| Place |空间研究主题中的参与者之间举行的讨论。研究主题的参与者来自一系列学科，探索地点和空间的概念-真实和想象，物理和虚拟，自然和建筑，历史和当代-作为“表演性”：换句话说，如何积极参与和实践空间创造我们的地方物质体验。通过表演性来理解地点和空间，突出了“地点”的主动性、多样性和不断变化的本质。对于网络，我们特别感兴趣的是研究围绕空间和地点的辩论与那些具有景观和环境特征的辩论之间的关系。为此，我们设计了一系列基于地点的研讨会，以促进跨学科的方法来理解“景观”作为实践场所的网络。我们特别关注“空虚”，特别是那些被遗弃、退化、消失、短暂、没有标记但物质丰富的地方。这种关注涉及景观和环境经常被重视或贬值，被记住和被遗忘的方式，使它们能够挑战和复杂化关于“空白空间”的假设，并追踪创造“空虚”的文化配置。因此，“空”将研究问题集中在景观和环境的主动构成和表现的规范上。讲习班将为跨学科研究方法的结合提供空间，从哲学探究到实证调查，从创造性文化干预到传统田野调查。高等教育、专业艺术和公共部门社区工作者都将有代表。参与者将利用活动前流传的原始资料，在为期三天的工作坊中，通过场地和空间的表演来探索景观和环境。由布里斯托尔大学、西英格兰大学和阿伯里斯特威斯大学主办，每场活动都将根据不同的议程和传统进行塑造。讲习班将与反思性专题讨论会配对，以便将个人和团体聚集在一起，为讲习班的发现提供一个定位点。个人将分享专业领域，具体目的是质疑与景观设计师和环境有关的学科和方法边界。虽然是临时性和推测性的活动，但将在拟订活动时加以讨论，以促进实践、观点和产出的转移。研讨会活动将以合作报告结束，旨在证明跨学科方法的潜力，并突出进一步工作的领域。由于网络方案的实验和创新性质，完整的研究项目的规划不是优先考虑的，但预计每个地点都将激发可以传播给一系列受众和利益相关者的材料，并将创造一个新的概念空间，在这个空间中，新的观点和实践、地点和空间将得到发展

Creative and critical responses to landscape and environment have emerged from across and beyond the Arts and Humanities, yet collaboration across the disciplines remains rare and methodological approaches disciplinary-bound. This series of experimental, location-based workshops will engage with a range of disciplines, arts and community organisations in order to provide an arena in which approaches to landscape and environment can be compared, combined and placed in critically reflective relationships.The Network responds to discussions held between participants in the emergent Performativity| Place | Space research theme at the University of Bristol (led by Professor Martin White with RCUK Fellows Dr Jo Carruthers and Dr Angela Piccini) and colleagues in the southwest of England and in Wales. Participants in the research theme, drawn from a range of disciplines, explore notions of place and space - real and imagined, physical and virtual, natural and constructed, historical and contemporary - as 'performative': In other words, how the active engagement with and practising of space creates our material experiences of palce. Understanding place and space through performativity highlights the active, multiple and ever-changing nature of 'location'. For the network, we are specifically interested in investigating the relationships between debates around space and place and those that have characterised landscape and environment.To that end we have devised a series of location-based workshops to foster cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding 'landscapes' as networks of practised places. IN particular, we focus on 'emptiness', specifically locations that are seen to be abandoned, degraded, disapeared, transitory, unmarked yet which are materially rich. This focus engages with the ways in which landscape and environment are often valued or devalued, remembered and forgotten, enabling them to contest and complicate assumptions regarding 'empty space' as well as trace the cultural configurations that create 'emptiness'. 'Emptiness' thus focuses resea\rch questions on the specifications of the active constitution and performance of landscape and environment.Workshops will provide scope for combining research methods across the disciplines represented, from philosophical enquiry to empirical investigation and from creative cultural interventions to traditional fieldwork. Higher education, professional arts and public-sector community workers will all be represented. Using source materials circulated before the event, participants will use the three two-day workshops to investigate landscape and environment through the performativities of place and space. Hosted by the universities of Bristol, West of England and Aberystwyth, each event will be shaped according to differing agendas and traditions.Theworkshops will be paired with reflective symposia in order to bring together individuals and groups to provide an anchor-point for workshops findings. Individuals will share areas of expertise with the specific aim of questioning disciplinary and methodological boundaries as they pertain to landscaper and environment. Although provisional and speculative, activites will be discussed as they are formulated, facilitating transferral of practices, perspectives and outputs. The symposium events will culminate in collaborative presentations that aim to evidence the potential of cross-disciplinary approaches and highlight areas for further work. Due to the experimental and innovative nature of the Network scheme, the planning of the full research projects is not a priority, but it is expected that each location will inspire material that can be disseminated to a range of audiences and stakehodlers, and that a new conceptual space will be created in which novel perspectives and practices and place and space will deve