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

响亮的景观：使用声音和创造性的设计方法来捕捉和传达城市森林中的生物多样性

• 批准号: AH/Z50547X/1
• 负责人: Nick Dunn
• 金额: $ 13.05万
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FZ50547X%2F1
• 关键词: Sonorous; Landscapes; Using; sound; creative

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.

荣誉景观旨在解决让城市社区、城市设计专业人士和政策制定者参与城市林地和灌木围场背景下积极的生物多样性保护的挑战，该项目将通过斯劳自治市议会 (SBC) 的数字城市森林 (DUF)。设计和测试基于时间的创新方法的有效性，i）通过声音捕捉生物多样性的变化水平，ii）通过创造性的数字方法传达这些变化，让受众参与感知和数据。 SBC 的绿色转型举措，特别是 DUF 的重新造林和野化活动，将测试其方法在改变生物多样性认知方面的有效性，并为支持改善生物多样性的城市设计和政策干预措施提供切实证据。该研究旨在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) 的学科，通过让利益相关者参与有关生物多样性的措施和讨论。加强管理该研究将开发和试点创新的无人值守现场记录方法、分析和基于时间的创意可视化，它将建立在四个传感器和创意通信项目的基础上。先前由副研究员 Rupert Griffiths 主持，并由 Joy Welch 博士后基金、AHRC Impact Acceleration Account、Universität Bonn TRA Sustainable Futures 基金和 Urban Tree Challenge Fund (DEFRA) 资助。为拟议项目奠定坚实的基础，开发和测试底层基础设施、技术和参与技术。研究问题是：RQ1：社区、设计专业人员和政策制定者对城市生物多样性和野化赋予什么价值观？RQ2：如何创造性方法、生物声学传感器和基于时间的可视化可以向广大受众阐明生物多样性的变化吗？RQ3：有关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？该研究解决了诸如需要发现问题等挑战并理解价值观，该项目旨在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，探索数据如何影响社区参与和价值观。​关于生物多样性，这将有助于城市内部的绿色转型，并发展更可持续和更有弹性的城市生态系统。