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 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, ranging from unconventional popular-science essays, interviews, and simple illustrations (see here, here, here, or here) to complex participatory experiences like our open discussion events and lecture performances and exhibitions.
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.
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 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, ranging from unconventional popular-science essays, interviews, and simple illustrations (see here, here, here, or here) to complex participatory experiences like our open discussion events and lecture performances and exhibitions.
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.
