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

传播时间和文化：通过公众参与(CTC)倡导科学和技术的全球视角将创建一套面向公众的互动文化活动和讲习班，并开发支持和促进对全球科技史的理解的学习资源。它还将提高人们对英中创造性合作在过去和现在的重要性的认识。反恐委员会将通过传播最初的AHRC项目--时间、文化和特性：共同创造历史研究和共同发展中国和英国的游客体验(TCI)--的重要成果来扩大影响。它将通过为一系列公众受众制定活动方案来做到这一点。通过活动的结果和学习资源，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。活动的记录和在CTC期间创建的定制资源将以数字方式保存，将该项目的遗产保留给后来访问科学博物馆集团网站的在线访问者。最初的TCI项目旨在通过设计支持参观者体验的数字遗产资源，将英国和中国在解释科技史方面的专业知识结合在一起。TCI的发展是为了促进与中国博物馆和遗产部门以及创意产业的合作，塑造科学之都，并产生新的博物馆和遗产体验。把“时间”作为理解英国和中国在科技史上的共同经历的起点，源于一门关于计时的学术研究--尤其是精密钟表的生产和西方时间观的主导，后者被视为“工业化国家”的核心。历史钟表贸易不仅为欧中技术传播提供了一个有用的例子，而且这一调查打开了审视时间文化和身份的大门，这在很大程度上支持了对英中关系的进一步理解。即将到来的展览，紫禁城的钟表珍宝，将展示无与伦比的故宫博物院钟表收藏品-这些文物体现了历史上的钟表贸易。这次展览是TCI的自然延伸，但不是最初AHRC项目的正式组成部分。后续项目CTC将作为一个渠道，将展览与最初的TCI项目的学术成果结合起来。在这样做的过程中，它将利用这两个主要资源来为我们的面向公众的计划提供信息，并强调两者如何互动，以创造对历史钟表行业的新理解。TCI对博物馆观众的文化差异的理解，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，将有助于CTC主动开发跨文化和创造性的解释，最终提高观众体验。CTC将运行9个月，提供四个工作包，包括“创造学习资源”(WP1)、“设计文化活动”(WP2)、“知识交流”(WP3)和“制作总结文件”(WP4)。由Pi Dr Tilly Blyth和Co-I Dr Carol Lo Yun Chung设计并领导，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5个月内(2020年9月至2021年1月)影响平均3,500至4,500人参加科学博物馆Lates活动，以及估计30,000名参观者参观紫鸣钟展览。CTC的影响将由Co-I Chung通过事后评估进行跟踪。调查结果将通过总结性文件和文件传播，告知博物馆的观众参与度。

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.