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

In this face-to-face workshop, we’d like to explore together how we can organise our research, highlight key content and communicate core messages clearly. We are interested in what matters to you in your research and work – because effective science communication stems not only from scientific expertise, but also from a deep connection to fields, subjects, methods and personal experiences.

The focus is on implicit, embodied and biographical knowledge: experiences, intuition, routines, improvisation and personal influences that enable research but rarely feature in scientific publications. We would like to discuss this approach with you.

In addition to brief presentations on artistic methods, storytelling, and objective and subjective knowledge, there will be practical exercises and opportunities for discussion. Working in small groups, participants will develop their own short stories based on their research practice: What experiences shape research? Which themes recur? And how can non-objectifying forms of knowledge be made visible?

The workshop is aimed at PhD students, researchers and stakeholders who wish to examine research practice from a new perspective. No prior knowledge is required.

Date: 08 July 2026
Duration: 2:00-5:30 pm
Venue: Seminar rooms, Building H, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam
Participants: Anyone from the Geo.X network who is interested

Agenda
2:15–2:30 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.