Our City on Mars - exploring conditions in Nottingham and the red planet; what we need for a good life here and in the cosmos

我们的火星之城建立在2018/19年度WonderMatch计划支持的探索性项目的基础上，该项目使诺丁汉的合作伙伴能够跨学科合作，确定艺术和科学之间的未来合作，并与诺丁汉地区的社区合作，该地区在经济稳定和就业机会方面面临巨大挑战。我们的目标是：制定教育方案，激发青年人对天体物理学和太阳系科学的兴趣和理解;通过跨学科的方法将不同层次的专业知识和知识汇集在一起，跨越艺术和STEM学科，以展示合作如何在个人投入的总和上增加价值;使用"我们的火星之城"的比喻"保持形式"，使儿童对在另一个星球上生活所必需的条件感兴趣，从而反思诺丁汉北部社会的生活条件;创建一个可以在其他学习环境中复制和提供的参与和教育模式;从而为诺丁汉文化教育伙伴关系CHALLENGe的战略和案例研究做出贡献;创建为合作学校定制的太阳系主题的学习资源，特别是创建基于知识地图和进展的资源;为了提高公众对科学的兴趣和理解，特别是天体物理学和太阳系，通过布尔韦尔艺术节和诺丁汉科学与文化节（FOSAC）以及学校中的真实的科学研讨会。该项目的长期影响将是在我们的目标交付领域中有更多的儿童和家庭，教育和文化生活;通过这个项目，孩子和家庭将增加他们的科学资本;我们的目标群体中公众对科学的理解也将显著提高。这个项目也将成为诺丁汉大学、学院、社区发展组织、创造性教育慈善机构、其他志愿组织、商业、工业和市政当局合作的典范。在STEM城市伙伴关系中更紧密的工作合作承诺已在公众参与的结构化方法中达成一致，该项目将是这一承诺的早期例证。

Our City on Mars builds on the exploratory project supported by the WonderMatch programme in 2018/19 which enabled partners in Nottingham to work across disciplines, to identify a future collaboration between arts and science and to work with communities in an area of Nottingham which faces considerable challenges in economic stability and employment opportunities.Our aims are:To create an education programme that inspires young people in their excitement and understanding of the science of astro-physics and the solar system;To bring different levels of expertise and knowledge together through an interdisciplinary approach, across the arts and STEM subjects, to demonstrate how collaboration adds value over the sum of individual inputs; To use the 'holding form', the metaphor, of Our City on Mars, to engage the interest of children in what conditions are essential for life on another planet, and thereby to reflect on conditions for living in societies in North Nottingham;To create a model of engagement and education that can be replicated and delivered in other learning contexts; to contribute thereby to the strategies and case studies of the Nottingham Cultural Education Partnership, CHalleNGe;To create learning resources on the topics of the solar system that are customised for the partner schools, in particular to create resources that are based on knowledge maps and progression;To raise public interest and understanding of Science in general and Astro-physics and the solar system in particular, through the Bulwell Arts Festival and the Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity (FOSAC) and the Real Science in Schools Symposium.The longer term impact of the project will be larger numbers of children and families in our target area of delivery with raised appreciation of the role of STEM subjects in their education and cultural lives; Children and families will have increased their science capital as a result of this project;And public understanding of science in our target group will also be measurably increased.The project will also be a model of partnership working across both Nottingham Universities, colleges, community development organisations, creative education charities, other voluntary organisations, business, industry and civic authorities. A commitment to closer working collaborations across the STEM City partnership has been agreed in a structured approach for public engagement and this project would be an early illustration of that commitment.