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采集技术的潜力，以显着增强信托基金的核心功能，以了解，照顾和促进我们的历史收藏和遗址。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一个相互学习的环境，将鼓励未来一代的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。 新台币是家庭的遗产资产在英国各地从历史建筑，古迹，景观，花园，考古遗址，以及超过一百万的对象在我们的照顾显着的投资组合。拟议的科学设施升级和增强以及历史数字数据采集将显着提高现有的创造性研究能力，并将我们目前提供的广度和地理范围扩展到其他组织和网络。它将建立在我们卓越的保护和创新的跨学科合作伙伴关系的声誉，通过提供全国范围的合作，教育和共享培训资源，大大增加我们对他人的支持。通过利用便携式分析工具的潜力，我们将进行研究，以加深对我们收藏的物品是如何制作和使用的，以及它们所处的文化背景的理解。至关重要的是，科学分析还将帮助我们记录随着时间的推移而发生的变化，以告知现在和未来如何管理变化的选择。在Knole Conservation Studio建立的卓越公众参与计划的基础上，我们将使用增强现实工具（AR）来实现开发和试用沉浸式内容的新方法。这提供了一个独特的机会，与公众联系，并与其他文物组织分享收藏品保护，展示和管理的挑战和选择。 增强的遗产数字数据采集工具，例如地球物理测量设备、地形测量和手持激光扫描仪，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。这些数字化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，以维护和适应历史环境，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址造成前所未有的影响。 我们将与新的遗产研究合作伙伴和利益相关者，特别是那些在英国服务不足的地区发展关系。鉴于信托的地理范围，我们将独特地提供“在野外”的最先进的评估遗产资产的资产，采取的工具，沿着管理和保护协议。这将使各种各样的研究人员（包括早期职业研究人员（ECR），借调人员，实习生）能够发展跨学科能力，实践主导的技能，并进行知识交流，以促进新的创造性研究机会。作为实现我们在整个信托基金中提高研究能力和能力的目标的一个渐进步骤，该项目将为创造一种相互分享设备和知识的文化提供平台。这将通过培训、讲习班、安置和通过现有和新的网络主办来实现。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.