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Circuits of practice: Narrating modern computing in museum environments

实践循环：讲述博物馆环境中的现代计算

基本信息

批准号：
AH/T00276X/1
负责人：
Simone Natale
金额：
$ 25.63万
依托单位：
Loughborough University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT00276X%2F1
关键词：
Circuits practice Narrating modern computing

项目摘要

In recent years, computing and digital media have become an increasingly prominent element of museum collections in the UK and globally. In the UK alone, established heritage institutions such as the National Science and Media Museum (2012) and the Science Museum (2014) have opened new permanent exhibitions about the history of ICT, while new museums of computing have been established in locations such as Bletchley Park (2007) and Cambridge (2014). At the same time, digital heritage has become a key subject of interest to museum-based researchers and practitioners, and computing and digital media a key object for media historians: over the past decade, several foundational histories of these new communication technologies were published, and digital history is now a vibrant, fast-growing scholarly field in its own right. These developments suggest that we are living through a key stage in the formation of both scholarly and public narratives about these new technologies - narratives that will, ultimately, also inform key decisions over what counts as historically significant, and thus what should be preserved and exhibited in museum environments. This offers a perfect moment for a reflective investigation of practices that govern the construction, dissemination and impact of narratives about new technologies, and for the generation of new, collaborative forms of knowledge that will be capable of informing both museum practice and scholarly debates addressing computing as part of historical heritage. To produce this new knowledge, this project will examine the role of museums in constructing narratives about histories of computing through which the past, the present and the future of our societies are imagined and culturally constructed. Rather than adopting a standard scholarly approach that takes museums as objects of study, the project will treat them as equal partners in knowledge generation. Taking up the metaphor of the electronic circuit, where electrical connections between diverse components enable complex operations to be performed, the project will bring together curators from leading museums in the UK (Bletchley Park, the Centre for Computing History, The National Museum of Computing, the National Science and Media Museum, the Science Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum), leading international institutions (the Computer History Museum in the USA, the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation "Miraikan" in Japan, the National Museum of Science and Technology "Leonardo Da Vinci" in Milan, Italy), a company partner (BT Group), and an interdisciplinary team of university-based researchers including PI Simone Natale, co-I Ross Parry and RA Petrina Foti. Leveraging emergent collaborative approaches based on the notion of community of practice, and using the protocols of design thinking and action research methods, the project will carry out a series of practice-led research interventions that will help address three key research questions: RQ1 (TIME): How can museums narrate the development of computers through time? RQ2 (OBJECTS): How can hardware and software artefacts be mobilized by museums to narrate histories of modern computing? RQ3 (DATA): How can museums narrate the role of information and data in computing histories?Trough that, the project will enable transformative impact in the cultural sector, enhancing the capacity of heritage institutions to effectively collect, preserve and present relevant information about the development and societal impact of new technologies. Public engagement will be enhanced by dissemination activities conducted in collaboration with research partners, including a public-facing Research Report co-authored with research partners, which will provide a summary of key project findings and practical recommendations for best practices in the presentation and exhibition of computing heritage.

近年来，计算机和数字媒体已成为英国和全球博物馆收藏中日益突出的元素。仅在英国，国家科学与媒体博物馆（2012年）和科学博物馆（2014年）等传统机构就开设了有关ICT历史的新永久性展览，而布莱切利公园（2007年）和剑桥（2014年）等地也建立了新的计算博物馆。与此同时，数字遗产已成为博物馆研究人员和从业者感兴趣的一个关键主题，而计算和数字媒体则是媒体历史学家的一个关键对象：在过去的十年中，出版了几部关于这些新通信技术的基础历史，数字历史现在是一个充满活力、快速发展的学术领域。这些发展表明，我们正在经历一个关于这些新技术的学术和公共叙事形成的关键阶段-这些叙事最终也将为关于什么是历史意义的关键决策提供信息，从而应该在博物馆环境中保存和展出什么。这提供了一个完美的时刻，反思调查的做法，管理建设，传播和新技术的叙事的影响，并为新的，协作形式的知识，将能够通知博物馆的做法和学术辩论解决计算作为历史遗产的一部分。为了产生这种新的知识，该项目将研究博物馆在构建关于计算历史的叙述中的作用，通过这些历史，我们社会的过去，现在和未来被想象和文化构建。该项目将博物馆视为知识生成的平等伙伴，而不是采用标准的学术方法，将博物馆作为研究对象。该项目采用电子电路的比喻，不同组件之间的电气连接使复杂的操作得以执行，该项目将汇集英国领先博物馆的策展人（布莱切利公园，计算历史中心，国家计算博物馆，国家科学和媒体博物馆，科学博物馆，维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆），主要国际机构（美国计算机历史博物馆、日本国立新兴科学与创新博物馆“未来馆”、意大利米兰国立科技博物馆“列奥纳多达芬奇”）、公司合作伙伴（BT集团），以及一个跨学科的大学研究人员团队，包括PI Simone Natale，co-I Ross Parry和RA Petrina Foti。利用基于实践社区概念的紧急协作方法，并使用设计思维和行动研究方法的协议，该项目将开展一系列以实践为导向的研究干预措施，这将有助于解决三个关键研究问题：RQ 1（时间）：博物馆如何通过时间叙述计算机的发展？RQ 2（CITOS）：博物馆如何调动硬件和软件文物来讲述现代计算的历史？RQ 3（DATA）：博物馆如何讲述信息和数据在计算历史中的作用？通过这一点，该项目将对文化部门产生变革性影响，提高遗产机构有效收集、保存和展示新技术发展和社会影响相关信息的能力。将通过与研究伙伴合作开展的传播活动加强公众参与，包括与研究伙伴共同撰写的面向公众的研究报告，该报告将提供关键项目结果摘要和计算机遗产展示和展览最佳做法的实用建议。