From pandemic preparedness to the future of mobility – it’s all going on at this year’s Berlin Science Week (runs until 10.11.2022). Once again, the annual gathering of innovators and whizzes is open to anyone interested in science. From astronomers to zoologists, top thinkers will descend on the city for public talks, workshops, exhibits and screenings under the motto “Dare to Know”. Fresh knowledge is certainly not in short supply at the festival’s epicenter, the Natural History Museum, where besides 13-meter-tall dinosaur skeletons, you can join in a free weekend program of over 40 events and exhibitions (05 & 06.11). How about a workshop on bio-inspired design, where you can get hands-on by making things out of materials inspired by nature? Or a public discussion on the future of robotics and machine learning hosted by ETH Zürich university?
Other highlights include a screening of the film Jatun Yaku – Amazon of Rights, a documentary that follows a tributary of the Amazon in Ecuador to explore the extent to which rivers – and nature – have rights. You can give your own opinions at the subsequent Q&A with the film’s co-director, Dr. Maria Cecilia Oliveira, a researcher at the Institute For Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam. Like all the events in the weekend program, you can attend with a free ticket. Check out the full two-day line-up online.
Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Ole Spata, Falling Walls Foundation & Berlin Science Week
Berlin Science Week runs until 10.11.2022. The full program can be viewed online, where you can reserve spaces at ticketed events.
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