Our new animation series on Accessibility in HigherEd. First videos are online, more will follow soon :)

There are many production roads for educational media and working on the intersection of HigherEd and audiovisual media is not always easy: it’s often highly interdisciplinary; every individuum has a different style and preferences when it comes to visual media; production processes are often long and complicated; open educational resources are still often limited. This situation asks for creative and new ways of working within the realm of educational media in HigherEd. Open accessible presentation here

An ETH Zurich highly impacted but adapted to climate change in 2040: We can proudly announce: we won the public prize of the ETH Today Essay Contest. The speculative fiction newspaper will be accessible in a printed format in early December 2022 at ETH.

Since June 2022, I'm leading the new multidisciplinary EduMedia Team at ETH Zurich. Have a look at our brandnew ETH Zurich Media Webpage

The video provides insights into the application of the method Emancipatory boundary critique. The method was explored along the concrete example of a research on communication of earth quake information. https://naturwissenschaften.ch/co-producing-knowledge-explained/videos_/videos

Some audiovisual insights into the interdisciplinary co-design process of our research documentary "Inequality and Conflict - Beyond us and Them", from the r4dprogramme Swiss National Science Foundation.

New ETH Zurich series on "Digital Skills" (german language). Many topics of the science videos are based on my previous Ph.D. work.

The current crisis of truth hits at a time when science clearly shows major threats to the web of life on earth. Audiovisual media is crucial in negotiating between science, false beliefs and the unknown.With its direct evocation of emotional reactions, videos can easily overpower written languages a mean of spreading what appears to be true. This talk looks at audiovisual technologies as a tool to mediate and explore ways of strengthening the bond of trust between science and public. How can we build trust through these experiences? More here...

A video-based exploration into the conflicting nature of scientists, filmmakers and activists. Video Keynote from the Silberfest Science and Media Conference & Festival, Halle 2020.

A scientist, filmmaker, activist - and ELIZA discuss about utopian scenarios and societal challenges for knowledge communication." Audiovisueller Beitrag für die Jubiläumsveranstaltung "Digitalität & Wissen: Verantwortung aus der Zukunft" des Leibniz-Instituts für Wissensmedien (IWM) in Tübingen

Had the immense pleasure to mentor a group of excellent AI and robot scientists to create some brainstorming innovative media ideas for science communication. Organized byCrossover Labs UK, as part of the upcoming Silbersalz Science & Media Festival 2021.

Most scientific content is communicated in a text-based format, most evidently in peer-reviewed papers. Nowadays, many of those paper-publications are transferred into a video-based format in form of research docs, video-abstracts or teaching videos.

Most of those science videos are an "afterthought" of the research process and do not meet the epistemic potential of the medium. Video offers a lot of specific media characteristics, thus  adapting scientific content into a video-based format will indeterminally alter the content itself. There's a translation, transformation and a transfer when you produce science videos. Hence, science videos are not simply a copy of an already existing result, but the filmic processes and especially the media design interact with the scientific content.

Our behavior in gaming is quite a paradox: Even though in life, we usually don’t like to feel incompetent nor are we happy to fail - when it comes to gaming, we seem to be okay with making an exception. Why is that? What role does failing play in our learning? What is productive failure? Check out the whole ETH series.

This video presents the Sustainability Research Initiative (SRI) of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT). The SRI aims at promoting research for sustainable development in Switzerland. It is realized in collaboration with our partner institutions at the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences. Sustainability Research Initiative Swiss Academy of Sciences.