横跨时间长河，宁诺人带你走进宁波——宁波建城1200周年系列展览顺利举办

Please scroll down for the English version -UNNC holds exhibitions to celebrate the 1200th anniversary of the founding of Ningbo.

10月17日，宁波诺丁汉大学（以下简称“宁诺”）与鄞州印象城联动举办的城市记忆大展——“何以为城”落下帷幕。展览以宁波千年港城、水文化作为切入点，结合宁波诺丁汉大学城市记忆实验室的研究成果，通过展陈设计、史料展品、艺术作品，对这座拥有1200年历史的城市开展探讨，表达对社会变迁、个体生活的人文思考。

无独有偶，为全面庆祝宁波建城1200周年，由宁诺参与共同指导的“海外宁波记忆1200”特别展览最近也在宁波市文化馆火热展出中。

系列展览

城市孕育大学，大学滋养城市。近年来，宁诺与宁波始终协同发展，通过“共建、共享、共益、共进”，深化校地融合，实现高校与地方之间的互利共赢。

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“从1200年前走来”，

展览“何以为城”圆满落幕

在“何以为城”展览现场，观众们能看到电视里播放的孝闻街、老外滩等城市行走纪录片，还能看到邮政局遗址、客运大楼等近代画卷。同时，当代宁波的自然艺术、居民的衣食住行，也在建构并书写城市文化的一部分。

策展人、宁诺城市记忆实验室负责人Yat-Ming Loo博士表示，“城市记忆不只是过去的历史，更不是僵硬冰冷的，而是生活在这里的所有普通市民，一直在参与创造的过程。城市的现在与未来是属于大家的，我希望展览能让市民对宁波更有感情与归属感，意识到自己的回忆与声音同样重要。”

自2020年宁诺城市记忆实验室成立以来，40余名来自宁诺理工学院的本科生们投入到收集宁波城市文化记忆的工作中来。众人历经前期文献书籍资料整理和城市建筑实地调研，用脚步和眼睛丈量城市文化；又通过活动策划，展品陈设与展览设计等方式传承宁波记忆。

值得一提的是，在展览举办期间，宁诺学子与当地的小学生们化身为小小讲解员，为市民们讲解展览。宁诺理工学子还带来了乐高建筑工坊、城市行走、手绘宁波等活动，提升了展览的趣味性。

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跨越世纪的记忆，

“海外宁波记忆1200”特展正在进行

而在宁波市文化馆， “海外宁波记忆1200”特别展览则展示了外国旅客眼中的近代宁波，分享了当代外籍在甬人士的心路历程，以跨越时空的记忆串联起这座国际化古城的千年旅程。

展览选取了12位历史上到访过宁波，且推动了近代中国社会走向现代化转型的西方来客，试图从他们的事迹、自述和回忆中重现19世纪和20世纪初的宁波。在他们中，不少人成为了宁波乃至中国教育事业现代化的先驱，如玛丽姑娘（Mary Ann Aldersey）在宁波建立了中国第一所女子学校。一百年后的今天，宁波已然成为了对外开放的重要窗口，也促使了更多外国人来到宁波生活、工作。展览亦开辟了一个单位，讲述当代12位各行各业的在甬外籍人士与宁波的故事。

“虽然相隔一个多世纪，但开放包容的城市特征却一直吸引着外国人来到宁波。从外国人的眼中凝视宁波赋予了我们一个独特而又鲜活的视角，我们希望观众能够发现那些被忽视的、被埋没的、被习以为常的城市元素。”

策展人之一、宁诺大四学生吴文博说。

开幕式上，宁诺首席财务与规划执行官马天就提到，该项目加强了中西方的文化联动，是中英两国人文交流的重要形式。

承办此次展览的宁诺宁波历史数字人文研究项目组由多位专家学者领衔，他们长期致力于建设一个权威、全面的宁波历史数据库。项目组负责人谢晶博士表示，“我们正在把数据库的一部分内容展现在大众眼前，希望市民有老照片可以共享，通过数字化保护知识产权，让历史记忆长久保存。”

宁诺首席财务与规划执行官马天、宁诺人文与社会科学学院院长任格雷教授等出席了开幕式并为展览开幕剪彩。

诚如校训“城市建于智慧之上”所昭示的那样，十七年来，宁诺一直在努力构建与宁波城市发展的良性互动，以自身的智力资源投身宁波的经济、文化、科技建设，把更好地服务地方内化为自身前行的澎湃动力。

UNNC holds exhibitions to celebrate the 1200th anniversary of the founding of Ningbo

17 October: The “What makes a city?” exhibition co-organised by University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) and Yinzhou Incity came to an end, which celebrated the 1200-year history of Ningbo City. The exhibition encouraged participants to ponder upon Ningbo’s water culture history as a way to illustrate the changes of the city from past to present with a particular focus on urban development and social changes in individual life.

In the meanwhile, the Overseas Memories of Ningbo 1200 Exhibition - co-directed by UNNC - is still ongoing at Ningbo Cultural Centre to commemorate the 1200th anniversary of the founding of Ningbo.

Cities breed universities, and the development of universities contributes to the cities. In recent years, UNNC and Ningbo have been continuously developing together through "cooperation, sharing, communications and mutual benefit", so as to achieve a win-win situation.

On the “What makes a city?” exhibition, the audience was able to see the old views of the city’s landmarks such as Xiaowen Street and the original site of the post office, as well as the natural landscape and the life of the Ningbo residents of the time, comprising parts of the city culture.

The curator of the exhibition and leader of the UNNC Ningbo Urban Memory Lab (NUML), Dr Yat-Ming Loo states, “Urban memories of Ningbo are not just about the history of this city. In my view, it is a process of memory-making where all residents are involved in creating and participating continuously. I hope that this exhibition will enhance the sense of belonging among Ningbo residents and help them to realise that their own memories and voices of the cities are equally important in the making of the present and future of our city.”

Since the establishment of NUML in December 2020, more than 40 UNNC undergraduate students have joined the Lab and conducted research on Ningbo City and created their own Ningbo memories by getting involved in activities such as City Walks, documentaries, and dialogues with famous architects.

During the exhibition, they brought a series of activities to the audience along with local pupils including guided tours of the exhibition, City Walks, Lego Artwork, and a “Hand-drawn Ningbo”.

Unlike the “What makes a city?” exhibition, the Overseas Memories of Ningbo 1200 Exhibition held in Ningbo Cultural Centre displays the modern Ningbo in the eyes of foreign visitors, sharing their experiences and thoughts.

From the perspective of 12 foreigners who visited Ningbo and promoted the modernisation of Chinese society, the exhibition retrospectively showcased life in Ningbo in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Among them, many had made prominent contributions, such as Mary Ann Aldersey, who established China's first women’s school in Ningbo.

Today, Ningbo has become an important window for opening China to the world and has also attracted more foreigners to live and work in Ningbo. There is also a unit in the exhibition about the stories of 12 foreigners living in modern Ningbo.

“With this unique and fresh perspective, we hope the audience can discover the overlooked, buried and taken for granted elements of the city," said Wenbo Wu, one of the exhibition planners and a year four student at UNNC.

At the opening ceremony, Thomas Murphy, Chief Financial and Planning Officer of UNNC, pointed out that the project strengthens the cultural linkage between China and the West and is a significant form of cultural exchange between China and the UK.

The Ningbo History Digital Humanities research team, which hosted the exhibition this time, is consisted of several academic staff of UNNC from different areas and is working to establish an authoritative and comprehensive database on Ningbo history. Team leader Dr Jing Xie introduces that they are presenting part of the database to the public and hopes to invite Ningbo residents to share their old photos to visualize the history and protect patents through digitalization.

“A city is built on wisdom” is the foundation motto of University of Nottingham. Over the past 17 years, UNNC has been striving to build a positive interaction with the urban development of Ningbo, devoting its own intellectual resources to the economic, cultural and scientific and technological construction of the city.

文字来源 | 马飞迪、谢彤妍、李熙涵

图片来源 | 宁波城市记忆实验室、张欣然

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