Body & Mind
How does science affect my health and my inner life?
No event track is more literally In Touch than this one. The science of bodies and minds is where research doesn’t just inform; it intervenes.
Your smartwatch tracks your heart rate. Your phone counts your steps. Somewhere, a biobank holds biological samples from millions of people whose data may, or may not, one day save your life. Health has become information, and information has become a new kind of intimacy. But in that intimacy lies possibility: more personal medicine, better understanding of our own biology, and new ways of caring for ourselves and each other.
This event track is about the science that touches us at our most personal point: our bodies, our minds, and our sense of self. It asks how we understand our own biology, how medicine is changing through data and personalisation, and why (despite all the breakthroughs) therapy waitlists are longer than ever. It also makes room for the emotional and social dimensions of health, and for the perspectives of those whose experience has reshaped and expanded how medical research is done.
Sport – Ein Abend für Bauch, Beine, Kopf
7 November 2026 | 18:30 – 20:30 | HKW | DE
Does running make you more creative? Is tennis the healthiest sport? And can picking up litter count as exercise? Science Notes takes the audience on a run through disciplines and sports. Writer Jan Brandt looks at what running has to do with creativity; author and filmmaker Jovana Reisinger explains why tennis is, to her, the best sport in the world. The 16th edition of Science Notes magazine takes you on a wild ride through disciplines and sports, turning science journalism into a live stage show, with a DJ set for body, legs, and mind.
Sport – Ein Abend für Bauch, Beine, Kopf
7 November 2026 | 18:30 – 20:30 | HKW | DE
Does running make you more creative? Is tennis the healthiest sport? And can picking up litter count as exercise? Science Notes takes the audience on a run through disciplines and sports. Writer Jan Brandt looks at what running has to do with creativity; author and filmmaker Jovana Reisinger explains why tennis is, to her, the best sport in the world. The 16th edition of Science Notes magazine takes you on a wild ride through disciplines and sports, turning science journalism into a live stage show, with a DJ set for body, legs, and mind.
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THERE’S MORE TO DISCOVER
The science of who we are doesn’t stop at the body or the mind. Explore how trust shapes our relationship with science, and with one another, through Trust & Responsibility, or how our senses, stories, and the media around us influence the way we experience and understand it Through Senses & Stories.
