The Landscapes of Post-War Infrastructure: Cooling down

战后基础设施的景观：降温

基本信息

批准号：
AH/T012390/1
负责人：
Richard Brook
金额：
$ 10.3万
依托单位：
Manchester Metropolitan University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT012390%2F1
关键词：
Landscapes Post War Infrastructure Cooling

项目摘要

In this Impact and Engagement project we will produce a series of interactive experiences and use these to gather public opinions about the value of landscapes around sites of post-war infrastructure. We will present a board game for primary school children, an interactive design experience with physical and virtual components and an immersive filmic experience at Bluedot 2021, a family orientated science, arts and music festival held annually at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire.This research is part of a larger project about the Landscapes of Post-War Infrastructure. As historians, architects and landscape architects, we know that high quality design thinking and extensive collaboration went into the production of the landscapes around sites of power stations, motorways, reservoirs in the rapid modernisation of the country after 1945. If the landscape architect did their job really well, then 60 years on, it is hard to recognise that a professional designer was even involved. Alongside the innovative design work, a substantial programme of amenity provision accompanied the development of infrastructure. All sorts of leisure were catered for in and around infrastructural sites - nature reserves, wetlands, community halls, golf courses, playgrounds, sailing clubs. As well as these formal, programmed uses, other activities have grown in and around these sites - cycling hill climbing, kit car racing, motorbike scrambling. The value of these landscapes is not just in their use though - the massive forms of gasometers, cooling towers, generator halls, dams and bridges loom large in the imagination as many had powerful presence in the landscape and they symbolise the sweeping modernisation and optimism of the post-war period. Thousands of people were employed on these sites and in the supply chainsAs we move to a carbon free economy, these landscapes are being dissembled. The association between the amenities and the sites themselves is weakened and the ties that once bound communities with their landscapes through both work and play are broken. It is inevitable that these landscapes will change. In this project we want to capture and represent the design innovation as we believe it has value to the design of future infrastructural landscapes, whatever they are made from. We also want to discover what these landscapes mean to people, how they value the landscapes, as users inside the landscapes and as viewers of the landscape. We think that these views are really important in understanding the social, cultural and amenity values that landscapes of post-war infrastructure created and how these values have evolved with the sites over time.Our eventual reporting of our findings will show new ways of visualising value and showing quantitative and qualitative data together to enrich the readings and understandings of these sites as they change and to make sure that the hidden values are adequately represented in decision making processes. In our existing network we have a range of stakeholders from industry, academia, the heritage sector and communities. We have built in some public events to our Research Network activities, but this proposal allows us to reach a much broader section of the population and to bring more voices to the research.The immersive filmic experience will be used to engage older children and adults and will be a form of docu-tainment that uses new oral histories, archival sound and film recordings, new music, new footage to create a narrative work that speaks of the birth, life, death and afterlife of sites of infrastructure. All of the elements will be presented together at Bluedot, where, in 2019, over 19000 visitors attended. The works will be used to generate a multi-generational discourse about the intangible values of landscapes and the results will feed into our final policy advice notice.

在这个影响和参与项目中，我们将制作一系列互动体验，并利用这些体验来收集公众对战后基础设施遗址周围景观价值的意见。我们将在 Bluedot 2021 上展示面向小学生的棋盘游戏、具有物理和虚拟组件的交互式设计体验以及身临其境的电影体验。Bluedot 2021 是一个面向家庭的科学、艺术和音乐节，每年在柴郡的 Jodrell Bank 天文台举办。这是关于战后基础设施景观的大型项目的一部分。作为历史学家、建筑师和景观设计师，我们知道，1945 年之后，在国家快速现代化的过程中，高质量的设计思维和广泛的合作融入到了发电站、高速公路、水库周围景观的制作中。工作确实做得很好，但 60 年后，很难认识到有专业设计师参与其中。除了创新设计工作外，基础设施的发展还提供了大量的便利设施。基础设施场所及其周围提供了各种休闲活动——自然保护区、湿地、社区会堂、高尔夫球场、游乐场、帆船俱乐部。除了这些正式的、程序化的用途外，这些地点及其周围还开展了其他活动——骑自行车爬山、赛车、摩托车竞速。这些景观的价值不仅仅在于它们的用途——煤气表、冷却塔、发电机大厅、水坝和桥梁的巨大形式在人们的想象中显得尤为突出，因为许多景观在景观中都具有强大的存在感，它们象征着全面的现代化和乐观主义。战后时期。这些场所和供应链雇用了数千人。随着我们转向无碳经济，这些景观正在被瓦解。设施和场地本身之间的联系被削弱，曾经通过工作和娱乐将社区与其景观联系在一起的联系也被打破。这些景观将不可避免地发生变化。在这个项目中，我们希望捕捉并代表设计创新，因为我们相信它对未来基础设施景观的设计有价值，无论它们是由什么制成的。我们还想发现这些景观对人们意味着什么，他们作为景观中的使用者和景观的观看者如何评价这些景观。我们认为，这些观点对于理解战后基础设施景观所创造的社会、文化和便利价值以及这些价值如何随着时间的推移而随着地点的演变非常重要。我们最终的调查结果报告将展示可视化价值的新方法同时显示定量和定性数据，以丰富这些网站变化时的阅读和理解，并确保隐藏的价值观在决策过程中得到充分体现。在我们现有的网络中，我们拥有来自工业界、学术界、遗产部门和社区的一系列利益相关者。我们在研究网络活动中加入了一些公共活动，但这项提案使我们能够接触到更广泛的人群，并为研究带来更多声音。沉浸式电影体验将用于吸引年龄较大的儿童和成人，以及将是一种纪录片娱乐形式，利用新的口述历史、档案声音和电影录音、新音乐、新镜头来创作一部讲述基础设施场所的诞生、生活、死亡和来世的叙事作品。所有元素都将在 Bluedot 上一起展示，2019 年有超过 19000 名参观者参加。这些作品将用于产生关于景观无形价值的多代人讨论，其结果将纳入我们的最终政策建议通知中。