Today the interactive scientific poster, developed jointly by communication designers from the Muthesius Academy of Kiel and marine scientists from the Cluster of Excellence ‘’ The Future Ocean’’, was awarded the internationally renowned design award ``Red Dot’’ from the design center NRW. The Red Dot jury also awarded the ‘’ Best of the Best’’ distinction for top design quality. The interactive scientific poster is thus among the entries, which particularly impressed the international jury with their uniqueness. The interactive poster consists of a 55 inch touch monitor, similar to a giant smart phone, which responds to finger movements.
``The award makes us very proud. We also see the interactive scientific poster as an outstanding example of the cooperation between communication designers and oceanographers,’’ says Tom Duscher, Professor for Interactive Media at the Muthesius Academy in Kiel. `` With such expressive formats we want to find new ways of communicating complex research topics. The Red Dot Award is both a motivation and an incentive for us to visualize research in an unusual way.’’
The communication designer Konrad Rappaport and marine scientists from the Cluster of Excellence ``The Future Ocean’’, led by Muthesius Professor Tom Duscher, worked for about a year on the digital scientific poster for the topic ‘Submarine Landslides’. A first version of the ‘Next Generation Scientific Poster’ project was presented last fall at an international conference and has been developed further since then. Today, the interactive scientific poster is being used worldwide at scientific marine conferences and public events.
"Submarine landslides" can trigger tsunamis. They are still among the most underestimated natural hazards and are a subject of research in the Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean". The scientific content of the topic is presented with elaborate graphics, film sequences and animations. The objective of the digital poster is to devise a graphically creative and at the same comprehensible presentation of complex scientific content. The communication designer sought to A clear structuring of the topic as well as an easily understandable user concept were main tasks of the communication designer.
"We wanted to design the poster in such a way that the viewer can decide on the depth of information," says developer and Communication Designer Konrad Rappaport. Rappaport successfully managed the rather difficult balancing act of making a complex scientific topic understandable to the ordinary person and at the same time developing a futuristic look with interactive elements.
Links
www.futureocean.org/poster about the interactive Poster / Next Generation Scientific Poster
www.futureocean.org Cluster of Excellence “The Future Ocean”
www.muthesius-kunsthochschule.de Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design Kiel
www.de.red-dot.org Red Dot Design Award
Contact
Prof. Tom Duscher, Center for Media, Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design,Tel.: (0431) 5198478
td@muthesius.de
Konrad Rappaport, Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design Kiel, Rappaport Kommunikationsdesign Tel.: (0431) 53011140
info@konradrappaport.de
Friederike Balzereit, Public Outreach Cluster of Excellence “The Future Ocean”, Tel.: (0431) 880-3032
fbalzereit@uv.uni-kiel.de
The Team
An entire team of specialists in communication design were involved in the development of the scientific poster:
Prof. Tom Duscher of the Muthesius Academy was responsible for management of the project in its entirety. Konrad Rappaport was responsible for the concept and design. Christian Engler took charge of the technical management. Jonas Häutle and Hermann Hartung took care of the technical development. Fabian Heinitz organized the voice recordings with Louise Dölger. The scientific content was provided by Dr. David Völker and Prof. Christian Berndt of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Prof. Sebastian Krastel from the Institute of Geosciences at Kiel University.
Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design
The interactive poster was a result of a joint project in the Cluster of Excellence “The Future Ocean” and in the framework of the new research focus “Sceintific Visualisation” at the Muthesius Academy. This research focus examines how multimedial knowledge presentations can serve as the basis not only for knowledge communication but can also provide a framework for acquiring knowledge. For years the Muthesius Academy has successfully addressed the search for design solutions especially for questions of visual, communications specific and scenographic nature in the area of knowledge presentation and is intensively developing the new research focus in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence “The Future Ocean.”
About the Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean"
The Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean" pursues a research approach that is unique in Germany: marine researchers, geologists and economists join forces with mathematicians, computing, medical, legal, and social scientists to investigate ocean and climate change from a multidisciplinary perspective. A total of over 200 scientists from the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel (CAU), the GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the Institute for the World Economy (IfW) and the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts are using innovative means to share their fi ndings with the international scientifi c community, stakeholders, decision makers, civil society and the public at large because they believe that by understanding the ocean we can sustain our future.
www.futureocean.org
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