SUN: Engaging low science capital audiences through the Lightpool Festival at the Blackpool Illuminations

RWW持有STFC领导奖学金在公众参与（2017-2020），这是针对与低科学资本观众在布莱克浦，兰开夏郡工作。因此，RWW已经与布莱克浦照明团队建立了合作关系，计划已经进展到需要申请资金的适当阶段。该STFC Spark奖将有助于交付（i）名为SUN的装置作品和（ii）相关的PE计划，作为2019年布莱克浦照明的Lightpool Festival的一部分。光池是一个免费的光与火艺术节，发生在布莱克浦对10月底，旨在重新连接布莱克浦居民的照明和创造一个新的文化提供在该镇。在第一年，有近5万人参加了六个晚上的活动。考虑到这一点，该奖项的总体目标是：-突出和展示STFC相关科学的兴奋（太阳物理学）通过利用布莱克浦照明的光池节的车辆;-通过有效使用NASA SDO图像创造创新的公众参与体验;-制作视觉上引人注目的艺术装置，可以在未来的多个类似环境中可持续地使用;- 与新的，低科学资本和服务不足的受众接触，包括公共- 通过相关的SunSpaceArt活动和与现实生活中的研究人员会面，激发和提高目标布莱克浦小学生的愿望;- 支持更多的家庭参与学校的同龄人-太阳位于冬季花园的一个大的黑色空间内，将一个直径7米的球体悬挂在地面上。八台激光投影仪将从球体内投射到投影织物上，投影本身是NASA太阳动力学观测台大气成像组件EUV图像的数字组合电影，形成完整的360度演示。伴随着配乐，太阳将作为一个充满活力的艺术装置，代表我们的星星前所未有的经验。一个有针对性的公众参与计划（例如，公众讲座及天文学家问答会），此外，太阳将有一个重点学校参与计划，其中将包括当地学校RWW是通过他的奖学金工作。这将与另一位STFC领导研究员Helen Mason博士以及艺术家Helen Schell支持的SunSpaceArt项目合作。在Lightpool创建和使用SUN将产生影响的领域包括：（i）塑造和告知城镇内服务不足、科学资本低的群体的态度，从而提高他们对科学的兴趣和理解（ii）在照明方案中更明确地引入科学参与，从而可将其视为年度活动的一个常规特征;以及（iii）共同制作新的文化和体育资产/体验，用于与未来许多不同的受众和地点互动。

RWW holds an STFC Leadership Fellowship in Public Engagement (2017-2020) which is targeted on working with low science capital audiences in Blackpool, Lancashire. Consequently, RWW has formed a collaboration with the Blackpool Illuminations team and plans have progressed to the appropriate point where an application for funding is required. This STFC Spark award will contribute towards the delivery of (i) an installation piece entitled SUN and (ii) an associated PE programme, as part of the Lightpool Festival in the 2019 Blackpool Illuminations. Lightpool is a free arts festival of light and fire that takes place in Blackpool towards the end of October and aims to reconnect Blackpool residents to the Illuminations and create a new cultural offer in the town. In its first year, close to 50,000 people participated across six nights. With this in mind, the overall aims for this award are to;- Highlight and demonstrate the excitement of STFC-related science (solar physics) by utilising the vehicle of the Blackpool Illumination's Lightpool Festival;- Create an innovative public engagement experience through the impactful use of NASA SDO imagery;- Produce a visually-arresting art installation that can be employed sustainably in multiple similar environments going forward;- Engage with new, low science capital and underserved audiences, both public (local residents and Illumination visitors) and targeted school groupings;- Inspire and raise the aspiration of targeted Blackpool primary schoolchildren through related SunSpaceArt activities and by meeting real-life researchers; - Support the engagement of wider family groupings of the cohort of school-children engaged already in RWW's Leadership Fellowship activity.Located within a large blacked-out space in the Winter Gardens complex, SUN will a 7-metre diameter sphere suspended above the ground. Eight laser projectors will project from within the sphere out onto the the projection fabric, the projection itself being a digitally combined movie of the NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory Atmospheric Imaging Assembly EUV images, forming a full 360 degree presentation. With an accompanying soundtrack, SUN will be experienced as a dynamic art installation that represents our star like never before. A targeted public engagement programme (eg. public talks and ask an astronomer sessions) will be delivered throughout the accompanying festival period. Also, SUN will have a focused school engagement programme which will include the local schools RWW is working with through his Fellowship. This will be in collaboration with another STFC Leadership Fellow, Dr. Helen Mason, and the SunSpaceArt project with support from artist, Helen Schell. The areas of impact that will result from creating and employing SUN in Lightpool include (i) shaping and informing the attitudes of underserved, low science capital groupings within the town, hence improving their interest and understanding of science (Astronomy); (ii) the introduction of science engagement more explicitly into the Illuminations programme which could then be considered as a regular feature within the annual event; and (iii) the co-production of a new cultural and PE asset/experience that will be employed to engage with many different audiences and locations going forward.