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》将通过计时探索两国文化和经济交流的历史，促进中英文化合作伙伴和企业之间的创意和商业合作。由中英两国创意企业联合设计的北京故宫博物院收藏的精美但罕见的钟表将通过新的数字体验，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方面探索文化和创意经济的潜力：*伦敦科学博物馆和北京故宫博物院的策展人和研究人员与北京交通大学和中国科学院的学者之间的合作研究项目，围绕17和18世纪的独特钟表收藏展开，这些钟表在英国制造和设计，但为皇家宫廷制作并在中国举办。*采用联合设计的方式对时钟进行数字化解读，涉及中英两国创意企业之间的知识交流。此次展览将在北京、香港和伦敦这三个地点对钟表的展示进行观众调研，并将汇集两国的创意公司，探索新的联盟和合作方式。通过这种方式，“时间、文化和身份”不仅是对中英两国文化和经济交流悠久历史的探索，也是当代背景下的一个实际例子——促进文化合作伙伴之间的知识转移，促进中英两国创意企业之间的商业关系。但这个项目也旨在为中英合作创造更大的机会。“时间、文化与身份”展览将以最大胆的形式为中英两国合作伙伴提供信息，通过物质文化重新构想工业革命；质疑专注于西方十八、十九世纪科技发展的叙事，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，导致了我们全球互联的社会。虽然这些主题是广泛而雄心勃勃的，但通过专注于一个关键领域——18世纪中英两国之间传播的时间概念——我们将能够阐明和测试这个更大论题的一部分，以及21世纪中英两国合作研究、解释和创造性贸易的可能性。

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.