Time, Culture and Identity: the co-creation of historical research and co-development of visitor experience in China and the UK

“时间、文化与身份”将通过计时的透镜探索中英两国文化和经济交流的历史，促进中英两国文化合作伙伴和企业之间的创意和商业合作。北京故宫博物院收藏的精美但罕见的钟表将通过英国和中国创意企业共同设计的新数字体验为中国和世界各地的观众带来生活。通过促进中英两国之间的知识交流和商业关系，该项目将开发跨文化方法，将观众与他们的科学遗产联系起来。该项目将通过两个相互作用的环节探索文化和创意经济的潜力：* 由伦敦科学博物馆和北京故宫博物院的馆长和研究人员合作进行的一项研究计划，与北京交通大学和中国科学院的学者合作，围绕一系列独特的17和18世纪钟表，这些钟表在英国制造和设计，但在中国为皇家宫廷制作并保存。通过中英创意企业之间的知识交流，共同设计钟表的数字化诠释。这将得到观众对三个地点时钟显示的研究的支持：北京、香港和伦敦，并将汇集两国的创意公司，探索新的联盟和工作方式。通过这种方式，'时代，文化与身份“不仅是对中英两国文化和经济交流的历史的一次探索，也是一个实际的例子，当代背景--促进文化合作伙伴之间的知识转移，并在英国和中国创意企业之间建立商业关系。但这个项目也旨在为英国和中国的合作开拓更大的机会。以最大胆的形式，“时间，文化和身份”的产出将为英国和中国合作伙伴通过物质文化重新构想工业革命的共同努力提供信息;质疑西方对18、19世纪科学技术发展的描述，并将其视为一个连续体的一部分，这个连续体包含了中国工业革命的经验，这些经验导致了我们全球互联的社会。虽然这些主题是广泛和雄心勃勃的，通过集中在一个关键领域-时间的概念，英国和中国之间的传输在18世纪世纪-我们将能够阐明和测试这个更大的论文的一个链，以及合作研究的可能性，解释和创造性贸易之间的英国和中国在21世纪世纪。

Time, Culture and Identity will foster creative and commercial collaboration between cultural partners and businesses in the UK and China by exploring the history of cultural and economic exchanges between the two nations through the lens of timekeeping. Exquisite, but rarely-seen clocks from the collection of Beijing's Palace Museum will be brought to life for audiences across China and around the world via new digital experiences, co-designed by UK and Chinese creative businesses. By stimulating knowledge exchange and brokering commercial relationships between the UK and China, the project will develop methods for cross-cultural approaches to connecting audiences with their scientific heritage.This project will explore the potential of the cultural and creative economy through two interacting strands: * a collaborative research programme between curators and researchers at the Science Museum in London and the Palace Museum in Beijing, working with scholars at Beijing Jiaotong University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, around a unique collection of 17th and 18th century clocks, manufactured and designed in England, but created for the Imperial court and held in China.* a co-design approach to the digital interpretation of the clocks involving knowledge exchange between UK and Chinese creative businesses. This will be supported by audience research into the display of the clocks in three locations: Beijing, Hong Kong and London, and will bring together creative companies in both countries to explore new alliances and ways of working.In this way, 'Time, Culture and Identity' will not only act as an exploration of the long history of cultural and economic exchanges between Britain and China but also a practical example of this in the contemporary context - stimulating knowledge transfer between the cultural partners and brokering commercial relationships between the UK and Chinese creative businesses.But this project is also designed to exploit a larger opportunity for UK/China collaboration. In its boldest form, the outputs of 'Time, Culture and Identity' will inform a joint effort between the UK and Chinese partners to reimagine the industrial revolution through material culture; to question narratives that focus on the Western development of eighteenth and nineteenth century sciences and technology, and see this as part of a continuum that embraces the Chinese experience of industrial revolution leading to our globally interconnected society. Whilst such themes are broad and ambitious, by focusing on a single key area - the concept of time as transmitted between the Britain and China in the 18th Century - we will be able to illuminate and test a strand of this larger thesis, and the possibilities of collaborative research, interpretation and creative trade between the UK and China in the 21st century.