SUN: Engaging low science capital audiences through the Lightpool Festival at the Blackpool Illuminations

RWW举办了STFC公共参与领导力联谊会(2017-2020)，旨在与兰开夏郡布莱克浦的低科学资本受众合作。因此，RWW与Blackpool照明团队建立了合作关系，计划已经进展到需要申请资金的适当地步。STFC Spark奖将有助于交付(I)名为SUN的装置作品和(Ii)相关的PE计划，作为2019年Blackpool照明中Lightpool节日的一部分。Lightpool是一个免费的光与火艺术节，将于10月底在布莱克浦举行，旨在将布莱克浦居民与照明联系起来，并在该镇创造一种新的文化。在第一年，近5万人参加了六个晚上的活动。考虑到这一点，该奖项的总体目标是：-通过利用Blackpool Illumination的Lightpool节日的工具来突出和展示STFC相关科学(太阳物理)的激动人心之处；-通过有效地使用NASA SDO图像来创造创新的公共参与体验；-制作一个视觉上引人注目的艺术装置，可以在未来的多种类似环境中可持续地使用；-吸引新的、低科学资本和服务不足的观众，包括公众(当地居民和照明游客)和目标学校团体；-通过相关的SunSpaceArt活动和通过会见现实生活中的研究人员，激发和提高目标Blackpool小学生的抱负；-支持更广泛的家庭团体参与已经参与RWW领导力联谊活动的学童群体。SUN将位于冬季花园建筑群的一个大而黑暗的空间内，一个直径7米的球体悬挂在地面上。八台激光投影仪将从球体内向外投射到投影结构上，投影本身是美国宇航局太阳动态天文台大气成像组件EUV图像的数字组合电影，形成完整的360度演示。伴随着配乐，太阳将被体验为一个动态的艺术装置，以前所未有的方式代表我们的恒星。有针对性的公共参与方案(例如公众演讲和向天文学家提问)将在整个节日期间进行。此外，Sun将有一个重点学校参与计划，其中将包括RWW通过他的联谊会与当地学校合作的学校。这将与另一位STFC领导层研究员海伦·梅森博士合作，以及由艺术家海伦·谢尔支持的SunSpaceArt项目。在光池创建和使用SUN将产生影响的领域包括：(I)塑造和告知小镇内服务不足、科学资本较少的群体的态度，从而提高他们对科学的兴趣和理解(天文学)；(Ii)在照明计划中更明确地引入科学参与，这可以被视为年度活动的常规专题；以及(Iii)联合制作新的文化和体育资产/体验，将用于未来与许多不同的观众和地点互动。

RWW holds an STFC Leadership Fellowship in Public Engagement (2017-2020) which is targeted on working with low science capital audiences in Blackpool, Lancashire. Consequently, RWW has formed a collaboration with the Blackpool Illuminations team and plans have progressed to the appropriate point where an application for funding is required. This STFC Spark award will contribute towards the delivery of (i) an installation piece entitled SUN and (ii) an associated PE programme, as part of the Lightpool Festival in the 2019 Blackpool Illuminations. Lightpool is a free arts festival of light and fire that takes place in Blackpool towards the end of October and aims to reconnect Blackpool residents to the Illuminations and create a new cultural offer in the town. In its first year, close to 50,000 people participated across six nights. With this in mind, the overall aims for this award are to;- Highlight and demonstrate the excitement of STFC-related science (solar physics) by utilising the vehicle of the Blackpool Illumination's Lightpool Festival;- Create an innovative public engagement experience through the impactful use of NASA SDO imagery;- Produce a visually-arresting art installation that can be employed sustainably in multiple similar environments going forward;- Engage with new, low science capital and underserved audiences, both public (local residents and Illumination visitors) and targeted school groupings;- Inspire and raise the aspiration of targeted Blackpool primary schoolchildren through related SunSpaceArt activities and by meeting real-life researchers; - Support the engagement of wider family groupings of the cohort of school-children engaged already in RWW's Leadership Fellowship activity.Located within a large blacked-out space in the Winter Gardens complex, SUN will a 7-metre diameter sphere suspended above the ground. Eight laser projectors will project from within the sphere out onto the the projection fabric, the projection itself being a digitally combined movie of the NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory Atmospheric Imaging Assembly EUV images, forming a full 360 degree presentation. With an accompanying soundtrack, SUN will be experienced as a dynamic art installation that represents our star like never before. A targeted public engagement programme (eg. public talks and ask an astronomer sessions) will be delivered throughout the accompanying festival period. Also, SUN will have a focused school engagement programme which will include the local schools RWW is working with through his Fellowship. This will be in collaboration with another STFC Leadership Fellow, Dr. Helen Mason, and the SunSpaceArt project with support from artist, Helen Schell. The areas of impact that will result from creating and employing SUN in Lightpool include (i) shaping and informing the attitudes of underserved, low science capital groupings within the town, hence improving their interest and understanding of science (Astronomy); (ii) the introduction of science engagement more explicitly into the Illuminations programme which could then be considered as a regular feature within the annual event; and (iii) the co-production of a new cultural and PE asset/experience that will be employed to engage with many different audiences and locations going forward.