The award winning ‘Next Generation Scientific Poster‘ is exhibited in the Berlin Museum for Communication until 18th January 2015.
“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.