What knowledge is essential to your research but never makes it into a paper?

On July 8 2026, 17 early career scientists from five Geo.X institution met at the Telegrafenberg for a face-to-face workshop. Together we explored how we can organise our research, highlight key content and communicate core messages clearly. We dived deeper in what matters to us in our research and work and how to translate this to effective science communication. As this stems not only from scientific expertise, but also from our deep connection to fields, subjects, methods and personal experiences. We focussed on implicit, embodied and biographical knowledge: our experiences, intuition, routines, improvisation and personal influences that enable research but rarely feature in scientific publications. 

Max and Jonas briefly introduce artistic methods, storytelling, and objective and subjective knowledge, and then we started working in small groups our own short stories and recorded these. Focussing on questions like: What experiences shape research? Which themes recur? And how can non-objectifying forms of knowledge be made visible?

At the end, we listened and discussed the audio-recorded stories of those who wanted to share theirs. Overall, the workshop opened an new angle how to communicate and look at our research. 

Agenda
2:00–2:30 pm: Introduction
2:30–3:00 pm: Keynote presentation
3:00–4:00 pm: Small-group workshop
4:00–4:30 pm: Break and listening to the recordings
4:30–5:30 pm: Group discussion and look ahead

The workshop will be led by the artist Maximilian Grünewald and the academic and journalist Jonas Dahm. Together, they work at the intersection of academia, theatre and artistic research. The pair have collaborated on several projects for Geo.X, creating audio pieces that explore precisely this kind of storytelling. Click here for the teaser.

Together with Maximilian Grünewald, we have already run several workshops on transdisciplinary storytelling at Geo.X 2024, as well as produced a short film.