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

时间、文化和身份将通过计时的镜头探索英国和中国两国文化和经济交流的历史，促进英国和中国两国文化合作伙伴和企业之间的创造性和商业合作。北京故宫博物院收藏的精美但罕见的时钟将通过由英国和中国创意企业联合设计的新数字体验，为中国和世界各地的观众带来生命。通过促进英国和中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。该项目将通过两个互动线索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合作研究计划，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世纪和18世纪英国制造和设计的时钟，但为皇家宫廷创作并在中国举行。*中英创意企业之间进行知识交流的数字时钟解释的联合设计方法。这将得到观众对北京、香港和伦敦三个地点钟表展示的研究的支持，并将把两国的创意公司聚集在一起，探索新的联盟和工作方式。通过这种方式，“时间、文化和身份”不仅将探索英国和中国之间悠久的文化和经济交流的历史，也将成为当代背景下这方面的一个实际例子--刺激文化合作伙伴之间的知识转移，撮合英国和中国创意企业之间的商业关系。但这个项目也是为了开拓英国和中国合作的更大机会。以其最大胆的形式，《时间、文化和身份认同》的成果将为英国和中国合作伙伴通过物质文化重新想象工业革命的共同努力提供信息；质疑聚焦于西方18世纪和19世纪科学和技术发展的叙事，并将其视为包含中国工业革命经验的连续统一体的一部分，工业革命导致我们这个全球互联的社会。虽然这样的主题是广泛和雄心勃勃的，但通过关注单一的关键领域-18世纪英国和中国之间传递的时间概念-我们将能够阐明和检验这一更大的命题的一串，以及英国和中国在21世纪合作研究、口译和创意贸易的可能性。

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.