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

交流时间与文化：通过公众参与倡导全球科技视野（CTC）将创建一系列面向公众的互动文化活动和研讨会，并开发学习资源，以支持和促进对全球科技历史的理解。它还将提高人们对过去和现在中英创意合作重要性的认识。CTC将通过传播AHRC原项目“时间、文化与身份：中英两国历史研究的共同创造和游客体验的共同发展”（TCI）的重要成果来发挥影响力。为此，它将为一系列公众观众制定一项活动方案。通过活动成果和学习资源，它将为科学博物馆集团及其合作伙伴吸引新的地方、国家和国际观众。事件的记录和在CTC期间创建的定制资源将以数字方式保存，为科学博物馆集团网站的后续在线访问者保留项目的遗产。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，将英国和中国在解释科技历史方面的专业知识结合起来。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，形成科学资本，并创造新的博物馆和遗产体验。将“时间”作为理解中英两国在科学技术史上共同经历的起点，源于对计时的研究——尤其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中欧技术传播提供了一个有用的例子，而且这项研究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“紫禁城钟表瑰宝”将展示故宫博物馆无与伦比的钟表收藏，这些展品代表了历史上钟表贸易的发展。这次展览是TCI的自然延伸，但不是AHRC原始项目的正式组成部分。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起来。在此过程中，我们将利用这两种主要资源为我们的公众节目提供信息，并强调两者如何相互作用，以创造对历史钟表贸易的新理解。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发展跨文化和创造性解释的倡议提供信息，最终将增强观众体验。CTC为期9个月，将提供四个工作包，包括“创建学习资源”（WP1）、“设计文化活动”（WP2）、“知识交流”（WP3）和“制作总结文件”（WP4）。CTC由PI Dr Tilly 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，将在5个月内（2020年9月至2021年1月）对科学博物馆活动的平均3,500至4,500人产生影响，并预计将影响30,000名参观者。钟主任将透过事后评估，追踪反恐中心的影响。调查结果将通过总结性论文和文件传播，告知博物馆在观众参与方面的实践。

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.