PhD Visual Storytelling Course

Visual Storytelling is a course aimed to develop the skills of storytelling in science and communication of scientific findings effectively. The course took place over several months and consisted of three parts; theory, technology, and practice.

The first and second parts were held on site in the Norrköping Campus of Linköping University. The first part encompassed workshops, lectures, and seminars about the concepts of storytelling and visual and audio-oriented design. The second part consisted of seeing the technology, some of which isn’t easily accessed on day to day basis, learning about it, and the possibilities of how we could use it in relation to visual storytelling. We had the opportunity to see the dome, the AR Arena, the decision arena, and the interactive tables in Visualization Center C. We have also been introduced to the simulations being developed for the traffic control tower, ship navigation, and handheld AR and VR.

The third part of the course took several months and was based on collaboration between colleagues from the Linköping University, University of Stockholm, and Masaryk University. At the end of the third part of the course, we presented our project ‘The Effects of the Rings: A Story of Choice’ alongside other projects from the course. Our project was made for the VR Arena and focused on comparing caffeine, nicotine and psilocybin at micro-meso-macro levels, their effects on the body, historical and cultural contexts, and societal perceptions. The Effects of the Rings project was carried out alongside Yuxuan Zhuang, Farhan Rasheed, Robin Skånberg under supervision of prof. Konrad Schönborn.

The details about the final presentation can be found in the ‘Conferences and Talks’ section under Events, or here: