This article investigates place-making—a process involving appeals to embodiment, materiality, and spatial arrangement—as a means for building communicative relationships between technical scientific communities and lay publics. Drawing from discourses related to the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program’s 89 landmarks, we illustrate how the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program builds different types of relationships with nonexperts via the utilization of place as (a) narrative framing device, (b) proprietor, and (c) gatekeeper. These findings reveal the ways in which specific strategic place-making gestures can support more or less public engagement in the processes of scientific work and outreach.

本文研究了场所营造过程，该过程涉及对体现，物质性和空间布置的吸引力，以此作为在科学技术社区与非公众之间建立沟通关系的一种手段。从与《美国国家历史化学地标计划》的89个地标有关的论述中汲取经验，我们说明了《美国国家历史化学地标计划》如何通过利用地点作为（a）叙事框架，（b）所有人和（ c）看门人。这些发现揭示了特定的战略性场所姿态可以或多或少地支持公众参与科学工作和外展过程的方式。