Projects
NOMIS Award
To introduce the annual NOMIS Awards, presented by the NOMIS Foundation, creative teams of the Imagining Science Masterclass developed film portraits of the distinguished international scientists, including a (future) Nobel laureate. Operating as a media lab at the intersection of filmmaking, design and science, the studio explored conceptual and visual approaches to communicate science as a genre of contemporary visual storytelling.
Through the film portraits NOMIS honours and celebrates the featured scientists. The film series tell the story of how NOMIS supports pioneering interdisciplinary foundational research in a broad range of fields. The “NOMIS Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Awards” is presented to exceptional scientists, supporting them in their exploration of unconventional academic paths, thereby inciting new directions in science.
The project makes fundamental research in medicine and stem-cell research, developmental biology, molecular and cell biology, neuroscience, social sciences, health sciences, ecology and biodiversity research, evolutionary genetics, palaeogenomics, neuroeconomics and neuropathology accessible to non-specialists.
NOMIS supported the Imagining Science Summer School by enabling young artists and designers to engage with science through creative investigation and invention. The program offered a unique opportunity to young professionals to develop their own creative positions and advance their skills.
Elaborate project description and science films on the separate Trajectory website imaginingscience.eu
- Commissioner
NOMIS Foundation
- Project type
Science communication
Masterclass in visual storytelling
Film production- Field
Science funding
- Location
Zurich (headquarter)
Various international locations- Year
2017 – 2022
- Status
Completed
- Hosting organisation
2017 – 2021: Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Art, Film and Design
2022: Unbound Trajectories- Collaborators
Junior and senior editors, filmmakers, photographers, illustrators, animators, programmers, sound designers
- Supported by
International research institutions and universities, including Caltech (Pasadena), Stanford University (Stanford), Harvard University (Cambridge), the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK), Princeton University (Princeton), the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the University of Zurich, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of California San Diego, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, San Diego), Imperial College London, the Warburg Institute at the University of London, and the Max Planck Institutes in Leipzig and Dresden.