Science through the keyhole: revealing scientific practices through workspaces

“通过钥匙孔的科学：通过工作空间揭示科学实践”旨在通过密切关注科学实践发生的不同空间及其所依赖的广泛劳动，提高我们对科学实践的集体理解。该网络将汇集学者和博物馆专业人士，调查一系列与空间在通过其工作空间促进和调节科学方面的作用有关的问题，以及如何在博物馆画廊的背景下最有效地向公众展示这些工作空间。该网络的核心问题是，对科学实践的空间理解如何能够更充分地揭示科学真理的本质、科学真理对权威的主张以及科学知识在公共生活中的作用。通过一系列跨学科研讨会，该网络将使博物馆专业人士、学者（包括科学史家、历史地理学家和科学家）和历史娱乐（包括数字）专家进行对话，以探索科学与其工作空间之间的关系，以鼓励新的研究合作，并为科学博物馆新公共画廊“科学空间”的发展奠定基础。每个研讨会将以三个基本研究问题中的一个作为指导（见“目标”），每个研讨会将包括参观重建的科学工作空间（见“支持案例”）。该网络的时间重点是自1876年以来的一段时间，当时世界上第一届科学仪器国际博览会在南肯辛顿博物馆（科学博物馆的前身）举行。这次展览结合了新的和历史的工具，标志着大众和专业对科学工作空间的理解的一个重要时刻，因此，在考虑科学工作空间和实践自那时以来如何因应政府政策、学术和商业科学研究的竞争需求而变化和发展时，它是一个比较的中心点。1876年的展览吸引了超过25万人参观，也是科学史上的一个重要时刻，为一个面向公众的新博物馆画廊奠定了基础，该网络将把公众对科学的理解置于其活动的核心。

'Science through the keyhole: revealing scientific practices through workspaces' seeks to improve our collective understanding of scientific practice by paying close attention to the diverse spaces in which it occurred and the wide range of labours on which it depended. The network will bring together academics and museum professionals to investigate a series of questions to do with the role of space in facilitating and conditioning science through its workspaces and how those workspaces can most effectively be presented to public audiences in the context of a museum gallery. Central to the network is the question of how a spatial understanding of scientific practice can more fully reveal the nature of scientific truth, its claims to authority, and the role of scientific knowledge in public life.Through a series of interdisciplinary workshops, the network will bring museum professionals, academics (including historians of science, historical geographers and scientists), and experts in historical recreation (including digital) into dialogue in order to explore the relationship between science and its workspaces, with a view to encouraging new research collaborations and laying the foundation for the development of a new public gallery at the Science Museum, 'Spaces of Science'. Each workshop will be guided by a one of three fundamental research questions (see "Objectives") and each will include a visit to a reconstructed scientific workspace (see "Case for Support").The temporal focus of the network falls on the period since 1876, when the world's first international exposition of scientific instruments was held at the South Kensington Museum, the precursor to the Science Museum. The exposition-combining new and historical instruments-marked an important moment in popular and professional understandings of scientific workspaces and therefore serves as a central point of comparison when considering how scientific workspaces and practices have changed and evolved since then in response to the competing demands of government policy, and academic and commercial scientific research. Visited by more than a quarter of a million people, the 1876 exhibition was also a significant juncture in the popular history of science and, in laying the foundation for a new public-facing museum gallery, the network will place public understandings of science at the core of its activities.