Projekt

The consortium of the Kiel Science Communication Network (KSCN) aims to establish a nationally and internationally visible center for institutionalized and research-based visual science communication. The consortium, which combines health sciences, medicine, media and information design, as well as science communication research and practice, focuses on science communication on human health in the context of modern societies. In a first step, the consortium wants to analyse existing information visualizations and determine the needs of (potential) users. Afterwards, informative and aesthetically appealing information visualizations will be designed collaboratively and the underlying effect mechanisms will be investigated. Interested parties from the public will be involved in the design process through participatory formats such as interactive exhibitions, collaborative design workshops and pop-up events in vacant stores in downtown Kiel. The Seeburg, centrally located in Kiel, serves as a permanent shared creative and meeting space. The analysis of the design processes makes it possible to understand how to create innovative, technically correct and aesthetically appealing designs that are closely aligned with the needs of different groups. Findings, concepts and models will be made available to the scientific (communication) community in the form of publications and transfer events as well as practical recommendations (toolbox). These different processes are implemented in cooperation with practical partners such as Spektrum der Wissenschaft, NDR, and the city of Kiel.

• Prof. Dr. Ilka Parchmann

  IPN - Leibniz-Institut für die Pädagogik
  der Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
  an der Universität Kiel
  Didaktik der Chemie
  Kiel
  

• Prof. Hinrich Schulenburg, Ph.D.

  Universität Kiel
  Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
  Zoologisches Institut
  Evoltionary Ecology and Genetics
  Kiel
  

• Prof. Dr. Tom Duscher

  Muthesius Kunsthochschule
  Zentrum für Medien
  Kiel
  

• Prof. Dr. Melanie Keller

  IPN - Leibniz-Institut für die Pädagogik
  der Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
  an der Universität Kiel
  Abteilung Didaktik der Physik
  Kiel
  

• Dr. Carolin Enzingmüller

  Institut für die Pädagogik
  der Naturwissenschaften
  an der Universität Kiel
  Didaktik der Chemie
  Kiel
  

• Dr. Friederike Hendriks

  Universität Münster
  Institut für Psychologie in Bildung und Erziehung
  Fachrichtung Psychologie
  Münster