Within the 9. Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation (Conference for Science Communication) the BGHS presents its second Art&Science-Project Visualising Research in cooperation with the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences.

The main goal of the project is to bring Art and Science in a transdisciplinary dialogue, to open up new ways of science communication. The visualizations show how research can be transferred into art projects and how these visualizations "offer the opportunity to intensify and encourage the dialogue between science and the interested public" say Thomas Abel (Coordinator for Science Communication at the BGHS) and Prof. Nils Hoff (Professor for Graphic Design and Illustration at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences), who organised and managed the project.

Most important was the dialogue between the doctoral researchers of the BGHS and the BA/MA students of the design department at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. They worked together in seven project teams. In the first step the doctoral researchers presented their dissertation projects to the artists. In the second step the artists interpreted the the projects with illustrations.
The transdisciplinary work not only offered the participants an opportunity to start into an interesting dialogue but also opened up new perspectives. According to Prof. Nils Hoff the project shows further potential for future cooperations: “A promising start is made”.

The Project Teams

• Olga Dostovalova (BGHS); Sabrina Brose (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences): Freiwilligenarbeit zwischen Tradition und Erneuerung. Eine empirische Studie zum freiwilligen Engagement der neuen Ehrenamtlichen [Voluntary work between tradition and renewal]


• Rodrigo Marttie (BGHS); Michael Budde (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences): Where is the Devil? – Early Medieval Representations of the Evil One


• Julia Meinert (BGHS); Katharina Rothenpieler (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences): Kinder und Jugenddelinquenz. Heterogenitäten und Pfadabhängigkeiten im Lebensverlauf [Heterogeneities and path dependencies in the life-course]


• Carla Thiele (BGHS) & Kathrin Potschka (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences): Migrantin sein – eine biographieanalytische Studie ezidischer Frauen in Deutschland [Being a migrant – an empirical study about Yezidi women in Germany]


• Julia-Nadine Warrelmann (BGHS); Ronja Kaufmann (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences): Women's Rights Violations in Human Rights Monitoring Instruments: A Comparison of transnational ›Governance by Indocators‹


• Dorothee Wilm (BGHS); Daniel Bergen (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences): Communicative Constructivism and Economic Theory


• Nicole Zielke (BGHS); Solveig Lawitzke, Sonja Mense (Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences): »Was vom Leben übrig bleibt« – Der wohnraumbezogene Übergang ins Seniorenheim [Transition processes to retirement homes – Old people and their home furnishings]

For further information about the Art&Science-Project Visualising Research please see: www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/bghs/Public_Science/Art_Science/illustration.
The Art&Science-Project will be presented at the BGHS and the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld in 2017.

Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation

The Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation is the biggest conference for science communication in Germany. Since 2008 it gives an overview about current trends and strategies in science communication. For this years conference programme (in German) please see: www.wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/forum-wissenschaftskommunikation/programm