Science and art have always entered into a mutual, inspiring symbiosis. The artistic, audiovisual installation Meandering River by the design studio onformative from Berlin is an excellent example of this.
The question of what constitutes a good life is a fundamental question for all of us. There is no universal answer to it. Moritz Stefaner’s data visualization for the OECD Better Life Index invites us to make our own explorations.
The Corona pandemic touched all of our lives – a fact that the New York Times (NYT) article “How America Lost One Million People” touchingly reminds us of. We have chosen it as our first Visual of the Month.
The Young Waterkant Festival took place once again on June 29 at the MFG-5 site in Kiel/Friedrichsort. Here, a total of 450 students and teachers from schools all over Schleswig-Holstein exchanged ideas with startups, projects and initiatives. The focus was on the question of what our world might look like in 10 to 15 years. KielSCN was part of the event with a workshop on the topic of science communication.
On May 6th, part of the KielSCN team went on an excursion to Berlin together with students from the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts. Visiting various exhibitions and a design studio, the participants gathered inspiration and took back exciting ideas for their own work.
In the term project Pop-Up Science! master students of the departments Interactive Media and Spatial Strategies at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts develop concepts for the visualization of health topics in unusual places during the summer term 2022. Thus, they will design pop-up stores for KielSCN in interdisciplinary teams as scientific exhibitions in small spaces.
With the project approval in summer 2021, the starting signal was given for the new Center for Science Communication Research in Kiel. On December 1, the Kiel Science Communication Network (KielSCN) now officially started its work.
Sharing scientific findings with the public in an understandable and effective way – that’s what the new Center for Science Communication Research in Kiel aims to explore. To do so, the players involved are relying on an interdisciplinary network that brings together the specialist expertise from three institutions.