Swarm Intelligence: insects, humans and information on the move

群体智能：昆虫、人类和移动信息

• 批准号: AH/R004633/1
• 负责人: Robert Fletcher
• 金额: $ 10.22万
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR004633%2F1
• 关键词: Swarm; Intelligence; insects; humans; information

This follow-on funding application is connected to The War of the Locust: science, politics, culture and collaboration in the Anti-Locust Research Centre, 1940-45, an AHRC Science in Culture ECR Developmental Award for 2016-17. Over the past year the team's four Investigators have generated new dialogues between history, entomology, ecology and art in examining the work of the British Empire's 'Anti-Locust Research Centre': a remarkable organisation that sought, across the twentieth-century, to counter one of mankind's oldest threats. The current follow-on funding application is to develop our engagement with new non-academic audiences and in more ambitious and creative ways than originally conceived. The records of the ALRC, housed in the Natural History Museum's offsite store in south west London, are unique, substantially uncatalogued, and prior to the commencement of our project were essentially unexplored. The time spent engaging closely with such a rich body of archival material has opened up exciting possibilities for collaboration which could not have been anticipated at the project's conception. The current application seeks funding to support two opportunities for collaboration, both of which have been the subject of preparatory discussion with relevant stakeholders. The first is with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (UNFAO) in Rome, whose 'Locust Group' is the contemporary equivalent (and the direct successor) of the ALRC today; here we seek funds to support two knowledge exchange seminars with this international policy organisation. The second collaboration is with the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, home to 80,000 locust specimens collected by the ALRC and unintentionally separated from the documentary material in London; here, we seek funds to develop a public installation in the Cardiff Museum which will present the complexities of interdisciplinary work, the puzzle of reassembling the disaggregated elements of this archive, and the ALRC's own efforts to gather and sort complex information in the pre-digital age. While the activities for which we seek support engage with different publics, all aim to bring the contents of this hidden archive, and our research reflections upon it, into wider view.

这个后续的资金申请是连接到蝗虫的战争：科学，政治，文化和合作在反蝗虫研究中心，1940-45年，在文化ECR发展奖2016-17年AHRC科学。在过去的一年里，该团队的四名研究人员在审查大英帝国“反蝗虫研究中心”的工作时，在历史、昆虫学、生态学和艺术之间产生了新的对话：这是一个非凡的组织，在整个二十世纪，它寻求对抗人类最古老的威胁之一。目前的后续资金申请是发展我们与新的非学术受众的接触，并以比最初设想的更雄心勃勃和更具创造性的方式。ALRC的记录存放在伦敦西南部的自然历史博物馆的场外商店，是独一无二的，基本上没有编目，在我们的项目开始之前基本上没有探索过。花时间与如此丰富的档案材料密切接触，为合作开辟了令人兴奋的可能性，这在项目构思时是无法预料的。当前的申请寻求资金来支持两个合作机会，这两个机会都是与相关利益相关者进行预备性讨论的主题。第一个是与联合国粮食及农业组织（UNFAO）在罗马，其“蝗虫小组”是当代相当于（和直接继承）的ALRC今天;在这里，我们寻求资金，以支持两个知识交流研讨会与这个国际政策组织。第二次合作是与卡迪夫的威尔士国家博物馆合作，该博物馆收藏了亚洲法律资源中心收集的80 000件蝗虫标本，这些标本无意中与伦敦的文献资料分开;在这里，我们寻求资金，在卡迪夫博物馆开发一个公共装置，它将呈现跨学科工作的复杂性，重新组装这个档案的分解元素的难题，以及ALRC自己在前数字时代收集和整理复杂信息的努力。虽然我们寻求支持的活动与不同的公众接触，但所有这些活动都旨在将这个隐藏档案的内容以及我们对它的研究反思带入更广阔的视野。