Through Senses & Stories
How do I experience, see, and make sense of science?
This is the event track where In Touch becomes more literal in a different sense: the textures, rhythms, and images through which science is not just understood but felt.
Before you understood climate change, you felt it: in a heatwave that wouldn’t break, in a photograph of a bleached reef. Before you grasped how your brain works, you watched a documentary that made it visceral. The first encounter with science is rarely a paper or a statistic. It’s a sound, an image, a story that gets under your skin—like a TikTok reaching more people than a journal article ever could.
This event track is where you’ll encounter events where the experience of science is the touchpoint to our lives. It explores how we perceive, interpret, and communicate complexity. It asks what happens when research leaves paper and enters the realm of experience: when sound, image, movement, and story become ways of knowing. It looks at the media systems that shape our attention, the technologies that alter perception, and the creative practices that help us see differently.
Cells' Ears
7. November 2026 | 21:00 – 22:00 | HKW | EN
What happens to your cells when you are sung to? A live performance becomes a scientific experiment with living heart cells, seen under the microscope and projected into the room. Architect and sound artist Sofia Boarino works with cell biologist Melanie Generali on the piece. What appears on the projection happens in the moment the audience is sitting there, listening. You are part of it too.
Cells' Ears
7. November 2026 | 21:00 – 22:00 | HKW | EN
What happens to your cells when you are sung to? A live performance becomes a scientific experiment with living heart cells, seen under the microscope and projected into the room. Architect and sound artist Sofia Boarino works with cell biologist Melanie Generali on the piece. What appears on the projection happens in the moment the audience is sitting there, listening. You are part of it too.
HIGHLIGHTS
Please note: events are displayed in the language in which they will take place.
FOLLOW YOUR CURIOSITY
Science begins with how we observe, experience, and make sense of the world. Follow that curiosity to the edge of what we know with Frontiers of Knowledge, or turn inward to the science of our health, biology, and inner lives with Body & Mind.
