Future Heritage Now: Delivering Creative Research Through Enhanced Scientific Analysis

我们将利用科学设备、便携式分析工具和数字数据捕获技术的潜力，显著增强信托基金的核心功能，以了解、照顾和宣传我们的历史收藏品和遗址。它将为创新的文化和创意研究提供新的途径，并将提供丰富的数据，以更好地为现在和未来遗产资产的物质变化管理提供信息。在大学、文化机构和创意企业之间建立相互学习的环境，将鼓励下一代遗产科学家和以实践为导向的专家应对管理可移动和不可移动遗产的物质变化的当代挑战。NT拥有英国各地的一系列非同寻常的遗产资产，包括历史建筑、纪念碑、景观、花园、考古遗址以及我们保管的100多万件物品。拟议的科学设施升级和增强以及历史数字数据捕获将显著提高现有的创造性研究能力，并将我们目前提供的服务的广度和地理覆盖范围扩展到其他组织和网络。它将建立我们在保护方面的卓越声誉和创新的跨学科伙伴关系，通过提供全国性的合作、教育和共享培训资源，显著增加我们对其他人的支持。通过开发便携式分析工具的潜力，我们将进行研究，以加深对我们收藏中的物品是如何制作和使用的理解，以及它们所处的文化背景。至关重要的是，科学分析还将帮助我们记录随时间推移的变化，为现在和未来如何管理变化的选择提供信息。在诺尔保护工作室建立的特殊公众参与计划的基础上，我们将使用增强现实工具(AR)来支持新方法来开发和试验身临其境的内容。这是一个与公众联系的独特机会，并与其他遗产组织分享在收藏、保护、展示和管理方面的挑战和选择。增强的遗产数字数据采集工具，例如地球物理测量设备、照相术和手持式激光扫描仪，将提供数字双输出，以监测变化，并使研究能够就我们现在和未来如何管理遗产做出更明智的选择。这些数字工具将提供新的高质量、多用途的数据集，这将支持我们和其他历史资产管理公司设计更有效的干预措施，以维护和调整历史环境，在保留文化价值的同时实现利益最大化。这是特别及时的，因为气候变化正在对历史遗迹造成前所未有的影响。我们将与新的遗产研究伙伴和利益攸关方发展关系，特别是那些在英国服务不足的地区的伙伴和利益攸关方。鉴于信托基金的地理范围，我们将独一无二地通过将工具带到资产以及管理和保护协议来提供对遗产资产的最先进的评估。这将使各种研究人员(包括早期职业研究人员(ECR)、借调人员、实习生)发展跨学科能力、实践指导技能和开展知识交流，以促进新的创造性研究机会。作为朝着我们在整个信托基金中提高我们的研究能力和能力的雄心迈出的渐进的一步，该项目将提供一个平台，创造一种相互分享设备和知识的文化。这将通过现有和新网络的培训、讲习班、安置和主办来实现。该项目将提供新的经济机会，为监管框架提供信息，并培养技能，以应对现在和未来的遗产挑战。

We will exploit the potential of scientific equipment, portable tools of analysis, and digital data capture technology to significantly enhance the Trust's core functions to understand, look after, and promote our historic collections and sites. It will provide new pathways to innovative cultural and creative research and will provide rich data to better inform the management of material change of heritage assets now and in the future. The development of a mutual learning environment among universities, cultural institutions, and creative enterprises, will encourage a future generation of heritage scientists and practice-led specialists to address the contemporary challenges of managing material change of moveable and immoveable heritage. The NT is home to a remarkable portfolio of heritage assets across the UK from historic buildings, monuments, landscapes, gardens, archaeological sites, as well as over a million objects in our care. The proposed upgrades and enhancements of scientific facilities, and historic digital data capture will significantly increase existing creative research capability and extend the breadth and geographic reach of our current provision to other organisations and networks. It will build on our reputation for conservation excellence and innovative cross-disciplinary partnerships, significantly increasing our support for others by providing a national-scale resource for collaboration, education, and shared training. By exploiting the potential of portable tools of analysis we will undertake research to deepen understanding of how objects in our collections were made and used, and the cultural contexts in which they are situated. Crucially, scientific analysis will also help us to document change over time to inform choices of how change is managed now and in the future. Building on the exceptional public engagement programme established at Knole Conservation Studio, we will use augmented reality tools (AR) to enable novel approaches to develop and trial immersive content. This presents a unique opportunity to connect with the public and to share with other heritage organisations the challenges and choices of collection conservation presentation and management. Enhanced heritage digital data capture tools, for example, geophysical survey equipment, photographometry, and handheld laser scanners will provide digital twin outputs to monitor change and enable research to make better informed choices of how we manage heritage now and in the future. These digital tools will provide new quality, multi-purpose datasets, which will support us and other historic asset managers to devise more effective interventions to maintain and adapt the historic environment to maximise benefits whilst retaining cultural value. This is particularly timely, as climate change is resulting in unprecedented impacts on historic sites. We will develop relationships with new heritage research partners and stakeholders, especially those in under-served regions of the UK. Given the Trust's geographical reach, uniquely we will provide 'in the wild' state of the art evaluation of heritage assets by taking the tools to the assets, along with management and conservation protocols. This will enable a diverse range of researchers (including Early Career Researchers (ECRs), secondees, interns) to develop interdisciplinary capability, practice-led skills, and carry out knowledge exchange, to catalyse new creative research opportunities. As an incremental step towards our ambitions to grow our research capacity and capability across the Trust, this project will provide the platform for creating a culture for mutual sharing of equipment and knowledge. This will be achieved through training, workshops, placements, and hosting through existing and new networks. The project will provide new economic opportunities, inform regulatory frameworks, and develop skills to meet heritage challenges now and in the future.