Audiovisual Language

Images, data and infographics are essential in science communication. But how do I choose or produce the right image or infographic for my research? And how do I visualize my data convincingly? Slides ETH Weiterbildung. The worksop will be facilitated again in Fall 23 at ETH.

kEYNOTE "hUMOR IN WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN vIDEOS"

New publication: Reutemann J., Volk B. & Rehmann J. (2013): Humor im Wissenschaftsfilm, in: CINEMA #68: Humor.

Previous Keynote on "Humor in wissenschaftlichen Bildungsvideos", at the Viteach 2022, Hamburg, presentation here.

Starting lecture for environmental science students at ETH with following workshop and science video task, in the format of tiktok science communication.

A very short history of oers

New ETH series on accessibility

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

workshop on edumedia at the Zurich OER event

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

ETH Today 2040 - winner of public prize

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.

What do we do at ETH Zürich?

SCNAT - emancipatory boundary critique

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

An audiovisual reflection on our research doc film process

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.

Keynotes HTW Berlin & uni linz

Mid of November, I was invited to give two new keynotes at the "Science Film Fest" at Kunstuniversität Linz and "Tag der Lehre" of the HTW Berlin. I've decided to focus the keynotes strongly on the powerful transformational character of science and educational videos. slides here

digital media skills with science videos

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

New here?

Some of my personal favorite past science, education and media projects:

Lead EduMedia, ETH Zurich

Since June 2022, I'm leading the new multidisciplinary team, EduMedia ETH Zürich

SDGs

Capturing Conflict - the Power of Images

Sometimes, pictures can change everything. We had just returned from our field productions in Guatemala and Nigeria with some of our local and Swiss research colleagues, where we tried to capture their research into social conflict on camera ... continue reading ...

8 Science Concept Videos ETH Zurich

Threshold Concepts, Feedback, Learning Goals - Science Educational Videos ETH Zurich Innovation

Co-Design in Science Film

(D) Co-Design von Videos in der Wissenschaft impliziert eine interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit, im Idealfall nicht in einer nachträglichen Dokumentation, sondern eine anwendungsbezogene Vernetzung der wissenschaftlich-filmischen Praktiken ...