Communicating Time and Culture: Championing a Global Perspective in the History of Science and Technology through Public Engagement

沟通时间与文化：通过公众参与（CTC）促进全球科学和技术视角将创建一套面向公众的互动文化活动和研讨会，并开发支持和促进对全球科学和技术历史的理解的学习资源。它还将提高人们对过去和现在英中创意合作重要性的认识。CTC将通过传播AHRC最初的项目“时间、文化与身份：中英历史研究的共同创造和游客体验的共同发展”（TCI）的重要研究成果来扩大影响。为此，它将为一系列公众制定活动方案。通过活动和学习资源的成果，它将吸引新的地方，国家和国际观众的科学博物馆集团及其合作伙伴。这些活动的记录和在CTC期间创建的定制资源将被数字化保存，以保持该项目的遗产，供随后访问科学博物馆集团网站的在线访问者使用。最初的TCI项目旨在通过设计一个支持游客体验的数字遗产资源，汇集英国和中国在解释科学和技术历史方面的专业知识。TCI旨在促进与中国博物馆和遗产部门以及创意产业的合作，塑造科学资本，并创造新的博物馆和遗产体验。将“时间”作为理解英国和中国在科技史上共同经历的起点，源于对计时的研究-特别是精密计时器的生产和西方时间观的主导地位，这被视为“工业化国家”的核心。“历史上的钟表贸易不仅为欧中技术传播提供了一个有用的例子，而且这一调查为研究时间的文化和身份打开了大门，这在很大程度上支持了对英中关系的进一步理解。即将举行的展览“紫鸣钟：来自中国紫禁城的钟表珍品”将展示故宫博物院无与伦比的钟表收藏--体现历史钟表贸易的物品。这个展览是TCI的自然延伸，但不是AHRC原始项目的正式部分。后续项目CTC将作为一个渠道，将展览与原始TCI项目的学术成果结合在一起。在这样做的过程中，它将利用这两个主要资源来告知我们面向公众的计划，并强调两者如何相互作用，以创造对历史时钟贸易的新理解。TCI对博物馆观众文化差异的理解，以及与创意公司合作创造关于帝国钟表收藏的创新博物馆体验的经验，将为CTC开发跨文化和创造性解释的倡议提供信息，最终提高观众体验。CTC将运行9个月，提供四个工作包，包括“创建学习资源”（WP 1），“设计文化活动”（WP 2）、“知识交流”（WP 3）和“编写总结性文件”（WP 4）。由PI Dr蒂利Blyth和Co-I Dr Carol Lo Yun Chung设计和领导，与创意从业者，文化倡导者，博物馆专业人士和学者合作，CTC将在科学馆Lates活动中影响平均3，500至4，500人，估计30，在5个月（2020年9月至2021年1月）的时间里，参观紫鸣钟展览的人数达到2000人。钟阁一将通过活动后评估跟踪反恐委员会的影响。调查结果将通过总结性论文和文件传播，为博物馆的观众参与实践提供信息。

Communicating Time and Culture: Championing a Global Perspective in Science and Technology through Public Engagement (CTC) will create a suite of public-facing, interactive cultural events and workshops and develop learning resources that support and foster an understanding of global histories of science and technology. It will also raise awareness about the significance of British-Chinese creative collaborations in the past and present. CTC will develop impact by disseminating the important findings of the original AHRC project, Time, Culture and Identity: The Co-Creation of Historical Research and Co-Development of Visitor Experience in China and the UK (TCI). It will do so by developing a programme of events for a range of public audiences. Through the outcomes of the events and learning resources, it will engage new local, national, and international audiences for the Science Museum Group and its collaborating partners. Documentation of the events, and the bespoke resources created during CTC, will be preserved digitally, maintaining the project's legacy to subsequent online visitors to the Science Museum Group's website.The original TCI project was designed to bring together British and Chinese expertise in interpreting the history of science and technology, by designing a digital heritage resource that supports visitor experience. TCI was developed with a view to foster collaboration with the Chinese museum and heritage sector and creative industries, to shape science capital, and generate new museum and heritage experiences. The focus on 'time' as a starting point for understanding the shared experiences of Britain and China in the history of science and technology emerged from a scholarship on timekeeping - particularly the production of precision timepieces and the dominance of Western views of time, which were seen as central to 'industrialised nations.' Not only did the historical clock trade provide a useful example of Euro-Sino technological transmission, but this inquiry opened the door to examine the cultures and identities of time, which largely supported further understandings of British-Chinese relations. The forthcoming exhibition, Zimingzhong: Clockwork Treasures from China's Forbidden City, will showcase the unrivalled horological collections of the Palace Museum - objects that embody the historical clock trade. This exhibition was a natural extension of TCI, but not officially part of the original AHRC project. The follow-on project CTC will act as a conduit that brings together the exhibition with the academic findings of the original TCI project. In doing so, it will use these two major resources to inform our public-facing programme and highlight how the two interact to create new understandings of the historical clock trade. TCI's understanding of the cultural differences of museum audiences and the experience of working with creative companies to create innovative museum experiences about the Imperial clock collections will inform CTC's initiative to develop cross-cultural and creative interpretations that will ultimately enhance audience experience.CTC will run for 9 months to deliver four work packages including 'Creating Learning Resources' (WP1), 'Designing Cultural Events' (WP2), 'Knowledge Exchange' (WP3) and 'Producing Summative Documents' (WP4). Designed and led by PI Dr Tilly Blyth and Co-I Dr Carol Lo Yun Chung, in collaboration with creative practitioners, cultural advocates, museum professionals, and academics, CTC will have impact on an average of 3,500 to 4,500 people at Science Museum Lates events, and an estimated 30,000 visitors to the Zimingzhong exhibition across 5 months (September 2020 - January 2021). CTC's impact will be tracked by Co-I Chung through post-events evaluations. Findings will be disseminated through summative papers and documents informing museum practice on audience engagement.