Transmission: An interdisciplinary research project exploring making, curating and representing knowledge

许多创意和传播从业者正在使用数字技术进行研究。这项提案将利用大学以外的研究成果，展示网站、博客、电影、事件和物品的创新用途，向一系列社区分享想法。它标志着从将数字技术视为主题或方法到将其视为关键的传播工具和知识场所的转变。它着手建立这样一种观念，即研究人员如何制造、管理和表达知识（超越谈话和文本）可以吸引和吸引传统研究环境内外的新受众。该提案通过两个主要活动来实现这一点；一个新的应用合作研究项目“行动自由”；19世纪英国的自行车、灯笼裤和女性骑车人”，以及一个国际研讨会（附带用户主导的研讨会和展览）。该研究项目将实践知识的制作过程带入生活，包括新的档案研究和现有当代自行车数据的分析，并与工艺实践者（裁缝、艺术家和电影制作人）合作，从130年前的专利中制作女性自行车服装。它结合了新的数字技术（笔记本电脑、相机、视频）、社交网站（twitter、博客）、经典的剪裁技术、粗花呢面料（带捻）和老式的手摇缝纫机。数字化记录过程，在一系列公共环境（如节日和伦敦市中心受欢迎的自行车咖啡馆和研讨会）中进行演讲，展示和执行结果，将带来思想，实践和技术的多维参与，扩展组织者的技能，并为不同社区的社会科学研究提供新的切入点。国际研讨会展示了前沿项目，提供了一个辩论和讨论实践的好处和后果的平台，开发新技能（通过用户主导的研讨会），并为潜在的未来合作建立新的关系。第一天将有演讲、表演、演讲和/或参观。将鼓励演讲者尝试将研讨会作为一个多维知识平台的想法，调解对话，促进新的切入点进入他们的想法，探索传播的背景和刺激新的结果（这可能不遵循演讲者和坐着的观众的惯例）。第二天将包括一系列以用户为主导的技能讲习班，这将促进进一步的讨论和实践经验，同时鼓励更多的人参与并展示他们的工作。活动结束后，将展出实物、照片、网站、影片和其他材料。正如政府的“开放数据白皮书”（Maude 2012）和Willetts（2012）所呼吁的共享知识的“地震式转变”所概述的那样，由于当前政治转向开放获取，该提案将重点放在制作、管理和表达知识的新方法上是及时的。虽然这些行动呼吁的重点是开放数据获取和将期刊文章从付费墙中解放出来，但这项研究以不同的方式处理了这个问题；通过新的数字技术、平台和材料使新形式的知识表示成为可能。它将使一系列工业、政策、创意和学术团体之间的知识交流成为可能，为未来的合作发展关键技能和网络，从而展示新形式的知识传播和交流的影响。调查结果将通过一系列产出与从业人员、决策者和研究人员分享：一个动态网站和博客、一个国际专题讨论会、用户主导的讲习班、一份简短的政策报告、两份会议论文、一篇期刊文章、一系列短片和两个展览。

Many creative and communication practitioners are using digital technologies for their research. This proposal will harness what is being done outside university-based research to showcase innovative uses of websites and blogs, films, events and objects in the sharing of ideas to a range of communities. It marks a shift away from considering digital technologies as subject matter or method to critical transmission tools and sites of knowledge. It sets out to establish the idea that how researchers make, curate and represent knowledge (beyond talk and text) can engage and involve new audiences, both inside and outside traditional research settings.The proposal does this via two main activities; a new applied collaborative research project 'Freedom of Movement; the bike, the bloomer and the female cyclist in 19th Century Britain' and an international symposium (with accompanying user-led workshops and exhibition). The research project brings to life hands-on knowledge making process involving new archival research and analysis of existing contemporary cycling data with the making of women's cycle garments from 130 year old patents in collaboration with craft practitioners (tailor, artist and filmmaker). It combines new digital technologies (laptop, camera, video), social networking sites (twitter, blogs), classic tailoring techniques, tweed fabric (with a twist) and a period hand-cranked sewing machine. Documenting the process digitally, giving talks and exhibiting and performing the results in a range of public contexts (such as festivals and a popular central London bike café and workshop) will bring to life multi-dimensional engagements with ideas, practices and technologies, extending the organiser's skills and offering new entry points into social science research for diverse communities. The international symposium showcases cutting edge projects, provides a platform to debate and discuss the benefits and consequences of practice, develop new skills (via user-led workshops) and generate new relationships for potential future collaborations. Day one will feature presentations, performances, talks and/or tours. Speakers will be encouraged to experiment with the idea of a symposium as a multi-dimensional knowledge platform, mediating conversations, facilitating new entry points into their ideas, exploring the context of transmission and stimulating new outcomes (which may not follow conventions of a speaker and seated audience). Day two will include a series of user-led skills workshops which will enable further discussion and hands-on experience, while encouraging more people to get involved and showcase their work. Objects, photos, websites, films and other materials will be exhibited after the event. The proposal's focus on new ways of making, curating and representing knowledge is timely due to the current political shift toward open access, as outlined in the Government's 'Open Data White Paper' (Maude 2012) and Willetts's (2012) call for a 'seismic shift' in sharing knowledge. While these calls to action focus on open data access and liberating journal articles from paywalls, this research approaches the issue in a different way; via the potential (and pitfalls) of new forms of knowledge representation made possible through new digital technologies, platforms and materialities. It will enable knowledge exchange between a range of industry, policy, creative and academic communities, developing critical skills and networks for future collaborations, thereby demonstrating the impact of new forms of knowledge transmission and exchange. Findings will be shared with practitioners, policy makers and researchers through a series of outputs: a dynamic website and blog, an international symposium, user-led workshops, a short policy report, two conference papers, a journal article, a series of short films and two exhibitions.