THE ZoNE - eXpanding possibilities is the name of our outreach program.
It is focused on finding new forms and voices for articulating the complexities of the research done in the "Pushing the Boundaries" project.
The insights created by the project are of a highly abstract nature. How can we make them more concrete? How can we make them felt? How can we convey their relevance to a wider public, not only as an intellectual curiosity, but an essential and transformative learning experience?
We collaborate with the art & science collective the ZoNE, and use an original approach called Wissenskunst to meet this challenge.
Our outreach efforts go both ways: they are intended to relay our research process and its outcomes to the public in creative ways, but also to invite the core research team to reframe their own perspectives through provocations and interventions.
Our activities are experimental and process-focused. They include:
- unconventional popular-science essays,
- appearances on high-quality podcasts,
- online discussion groups with project collaborators or other relevant reearchers,
- various illustration processes (see here, here, here, or here),
- workshops in local schools,
- complex participatory experiences like our open studio events (#1, #2, and #3 or, more informally, here, here, and here),
- lecture performances (here and here),
- interdisciplinary guided tours through public spaces,
and, last but definitely not least, three major public art & science exhibitions:
- Landmaschine,
- Intangible,
- Rewilding.
These events have reached audiences of hundreds of people, many of which do not usually engage with philosophy- or science-related content.
Ultimately, our outreach efforts embed themselves organically into the evolving structure of the project, mirroring the self-manufacturing and adaptive dynamics of the living systems under study by the project.
The result is an approach to science communication beyond mere dissemination mechanics, towards a creative, inclusive, open-ended process.
One particular outcome of this work has been a new methodology for conducting workshops, based on a combination of science and philosophy with active and collective studio practice, which we will offer beyond the end of the project as a service to paying customers through our Perspective Studio.
It is focused on finding new forms and voices for articulating the complexities of the research done in the "Pushing the Boundaries" project.
The insights created by the project are of a highly abstract nature. How can we make them more concrete? How can we make them felt? How can we convey their relevance to a wider public, not only as an intellectual curiosity, but an essential and transformative learning experience?
We collaborate with the art & science collective the ZoNE, and use an original approach called Wissenskunst to meet this challenge.
Our outreach efforts go both ways: they are intended to relay our research process and its outcomes to the public in creative ways, but also to invite the core research team to reframe their own perspectives through provocations and interventions.
Our activities are experimental and process-focused. They include:
- unconventional popular-science essays,
- appearances on high-quality podcasts,
- online discussion groups with project collaborators or other relevant reearchers,
- various illustration processes (see here, here, here, or here),
- workshops in local schools,
- complex participatory experiences like our open studio events (#1, #2, and #3 or, more informally, here, here, and here),
- lecture performances (here and here),
- interdisciplinary guided tours through public spaces,
and, last but definitely not least, three major public art & science exhibitions:
- Landmaschine,
- Intangible,
- Rewilding.
These events have reached audiences of hundreds of people, many of which do not usually engage with philosophy- or science-related content.
Ultimately, our outreach efforts embed themselves organically into the evolving structure of the project, mirroring the self-manufacturing and adaptive dynamics of the living systems under study by the project.
The result is an approach to science communication beyond mere dissemination mechanics, towards a creative, inclusive, open-ended process.
One particular outcome of this work has been a new methodology for conducting workshops, based on a combination of science and philosophy with active and collective studio practice, which we will offer beyond the end of the project as a service to paying customers through our Perspective Studio.
