Creative teams of Imagining Science developed a number of visual storytelling projects for the NOMIS Foundation to represent and communicate with stakeholders in their international science network about the foundation’s vision and key activities in supporting high-risk basic research. The visual essays were featured during, or in relation to the annual NOMIS Award ceremony events.

The projects are result of an experimental approach towards corporate storytelling. The basic idea of the foundation is conveyed through the use of associative narratives and iconographies about science and the work of the funded scientists. The audiovisual formats make use of authentic footage, photography, illustration and animation. The narratives are screened as stand-alone, or in combination with experimental live performances that form an immersive theatrical experience. Imagining Science has contributed to the development of a visual discourse complementary to the foundation’s other communication initiatives.

Elaborate project description and science storytelling projects on the separate Trajectory website imaginingscience.eu

Commissioner

NOMIS Foundation

Project type

Film production, Image film
Science communication
Visual essay

Field

Science funding

Location

Zurich (headquarter)
Various international locations

Year

2019 – 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

Lucerne School of Art and Design
Konzert und Kongresshaus Zürich