Communicate your science!
Visualizing your topic with your team, fellows and stakeholders
The Thinking Hands workshop is a powerful tool for building a collective brain and communicate comprehensibly to a broad audience. It builds on the idea that we are more then the sum of our parts and applies arts to grasp and communicate the bigger picture.
Thinking Hands Workshops 2025
In our workshops you learn how to visualize your science while discussing with your team. My artist colleagues and me guide you through the stepwise process, and the resulting visual story telling can be published within printed or digital media for outreach. An advanced version can as well integrate stakeholders into the process to capture a participative and multi-perspective view for your research. In 2025 we will provide workshops for scientists, lab teams and as a teaching module for advanced studies. They can be held on-site within your lab, field station or university.
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Knowledge and Power, Thinking Hands workshop with the fellows of the Humboldt Residency, 2024
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Thinking Hands Workshop 1
Science communication
This workshop is designed for up to 20 participants, who can be fellows of a research team or grade or from diverse disciplines that you want to merge.
Goals
- discuss your research in respect of details and the bigger picture
- subsequent storytelling of your research to reach society
It includes
- preparation call with you as head of your team to specify the topic/question
- online call for participants to introduce them to the upcoming event, the artist team and to each other
- workshop onsite, 1,5 days (8+4h), DAY 1: 1. installing the pop-up Thinking Hands studio within your place, 2. structured constitutive phases of inspirational speeches, painting, discussions, collage and presentations. 3. integrational breaks for lunch and between day 1 and day 2 that let sink in the experience and provide a fresh look on the results on DAY 2: review the results so far, re-arrange the pictures for subsequent storytelling
- expendable materials such as paint, brushes, paper and equipement.
- visual representation of your research
- final presentation captured by video, delivered digital
- photo documentation of the process and results, delivered digital
Outcomes
- team building, out-of-the-box-thinking, empathy, information, problem solving
Optional outcome: processing the material to design media such as slides, a booklet or poster according to the individual needs
Price 3.200 EUR (+tax)
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about the workshop!Thinking Hands Workshop 2
Participative research & science communication
The workshop is designed for up to 20 participants who are research fellows and stakeholders of a joint field and issue.
Goals
-exchange and integrate multiple view-points and information for deeper research
- comprehensible outreach to society
It includes
- preparation call with you as head of your team to specify the topic/question
- online call for participating researchers and stakeholders to introduce them to the upcoming event, the artist team and to each other
- workshop onsite, 1,5 days (8+4h), DAY 1: 1. installing the pop-up studio within your place, 2. structured constitutive phases of inspirational speeches, painting, discussions, collage and presentations. 3. integrational breaks for lunch and between day 1 and day 2 that let sink in the experience and provide a fresh look on the results on DAY 2: review the results so far, re-arrange the pictures for subsequent storytelling
- expendable materials such as paint, brushes, paper and equipement
- a visual representation of the bigger picture of your topic
- final presentation captured by video, digitally delivered
- photo documentation of the process and results, digitally delivered
Outcomes
- team and community building, out-of-the-box-thinking, empathy, education, problem solving
- Optional outcome: processing the material to design media such as slides, a booklet or poster according to the individual needs
Price 3.200 EUR (+tax)
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about the workshop!About the Thinking Hands process, Symbiosis Studio, Águilas, 2022
Let’s talk about kinship! performed by Pauline Affatato (student) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, 2022
Covid - The creative potential of the crisis.
Thinking Hands workshop with students and teachers at the Marsilius Kolleg, Heidelberg University, 2021
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Related publications
Guse, S. et al, Thinking Hands – Schön ist zu verstehen, in: Aisthesis – Ästhetik zur Meßbarkeit einer Sensation, Volume I, Marion Elias (Hrsg.), Eigenverlag Angewandte, Wien, 2017, p. 149-159, (ISBN: 978-3950432305)
Guse, S., Thinking Hands – A Social Design Approach, Dissertation of philosophy at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, 2015, 170 pp.
Guse, S.: Thinking Hands – Für Co-Design & Co, in: Design Austria Mitteilungen, Volume 2015, No 1, 12 & 13 pp.
Guse, S.: Von Hand zu Hand denken – Kollaboration durch Zeichnung im Social Design, in: Joseph Binder Symposium, Reader, 2014, 9 & 10 pp.