Changing Places: Evaluating the socio-cultural impact and experiential change of the new Museum of London in Smithfield

改变地方：评估史密斯菲尔德新伦敦博物馆的社会文化影响和体验变化

• 批准号: 2427933
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Brunel University London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2427933
• 关键词: Changing; Places; Evaluating; socio; cultural

The relocation of the Museum of London (MoL) to Smithfield in 2024 provides an opportunity for an empirical case study on the interplay between city museums and their urban contexts.The move will transform the MoL's approach to the city: not just to its mission to connect people to the lived experience of London, but across its collections, programmes, public engagement activities, and to the unique morphology of its new site. The museum has the potential to become a more permeable institution, both philosophically and spatially. To do so, it must understand the nature and communities of its subject - London - and its immediate urban context - Smithfield - well before it opens its doors. It must also understand the impact of its presence on that same context before, during and after its move. This PhD will develop a theoretical and methodological framework to map and evaluate the extant social, symbolic and experiential meanings embedded in Smithfield, the narratives that underpin its identity, how these are authored and 'read'. Further, it will analyse how the existing socio-cultural landscape can inform the MoL's institutional practices and connections to the neighbourhood, and the development of its surroundings. It will result in a practical toolkit to be used by the MoL beyond the period of the research to apply to the ongoing changing circumstances of Smithfield. The PhD will be action research-based and apply a mixed methods approach. It will engage with the current academic discourse around museums as agents of social change, as well as a theoretical framework combining aspects of phenomenology and narrative theory.The research will contribute to an understanding of how museum spaces physically interact with their surroundings; how new or relocated institutions can 'land softly'; and to better understand place-based narratives and their impact on urban atmospheres and everyday practices.

伦敦博物馆（MoL）将于2024年搬迁至史密斯菲尔德，这为城市博物馆与城市环境之间的相互作用提供了一个实证案例研究的机会。此举将改变MoL对城市的态度：不仅是为了它的使命，把人们与伦敦的生活体验联系起来，而且是为了它的收藏、项目、公众参与活动，以及它的新地点的独特形态。博物馆有潜力成为一个更具渗透性的机构，无论是在艺术上还是在空间上。要做到这一点，它必须在开门之前就了解它的主题--伦敦--的性质和社区，以及它的直接城市背景--史密斯菲尔德。它还必须了解其存在在其迁移之前、期间和之后对同一背景的影响。该博士将开发一个理论和方法框架，以映射和评估嵌入史密斯菲尔德的现存社会，象征和经验意义，支撑其身份的叙述，这些是如何创作和“阅读”的。此外，还将分析现有的社会文化景观如何为劳动部的机构做法和与社区的联系以及周边环境的发展提供信息。它将产生一个实用的工具包，供MoL在研究期后使用，以适用于史密斯菲尔德不断变化的情况。博士学位将以行动研究为基础，并采用混合方法。它将与当前围绕博物馆作为社会变革的媒介的学术话语以及结合现象学和叙事理论的理论框架相结合，有助于理解博物馆空间如何与周围环境发生物理互动;新的或搬迁的机构如何"软着陆“;更好地理解基于场所的叙事及其对城市氛围和日常实践的影响。