‘Faszination Forschungsreise‘ deals with scientific travel as a specific setting for the production of knowledge. Focusing on the 18th century, the article outlines how the main method of gaining knowledge, scientific observation, was subjected to regulation, control, and habitualization in order to obtain reliable research results. The ideal of scientific observation in travel instructions and the notes of travellers like Alexander von Humboldt, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort or Georg Forster show that well-established practices of gaining knowledge were combined with pragmatism in the face of the unpredictability of the travel situation.
Script and voice-over: Julia Carina Böttcher
Musical and Technical curation: Christos Koutsoulas
General supervision Maria Rentetzi.
The text was published for the first time in Friedrich: Forschungsmagazin der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, 120, 50-52. https://www.fau.de/files/2021/02/friedrich120_hin-und-wege.pdf
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‘Faszination Forschungsreise‘ deals with scientific travel as a specific setting for the production of knowledge. Focusing on the 18th century, the article outlines how the main method of gaining knowledge, scientific observation, was subjected to regulation, control, and habitualization in order to obtain reliable research results. The ideal of scientific observation in travel instructions and the notes of travellers like Alexander von Humboldt, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort or Georg Forster show that well-established practices of gaining knowledge were combined with pragmatism in the face of the unpredictability of the travel situation.
Script and voice-over: Julia Carina Böttcher
Musical and Technical curation: Christos Koutsoulas
General supervision Maria Rentetzi.
The text was published for the first time in Friedrich: Forschungsmagazin der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, 120, 50-52. https://www.fau.de/files/2021/02/friedrich120_hin-und-wege.pdf
What does a box of strawberries -at the Greeκ Nuclear Center "Demokritos" in 1986- have to do with a diplomatic bath in the cold waters of Palomares in 1966? They were both used by political leaders and scientists to manage the world's panic after two nuclear accidents; in Chernobyl and in Palomares. In both cases scientists and diplomats did not use scientific arguments. Instead they bet their own lives to persuade that radiation did not pose high risks.
Script and voice-over: Loukas Freris
Musical and Technical curation: Christos Koutsoulas
General supervision Maria Rentetzi.
The text was published for the first time in "PRISMA: Insert for science, technology and society", published in the newspaper Avgi on 07/27/2019.
https://www.avgi.gr/entheta/prisma/320132_sto-palomares-mpania-kai-stin-athina-fraoyles
Κείμενο και αφήγηση: Λουκάς Φρέρης,
Μουσική και Τεχνική επιμέλεια: Χρήστος Κουτσούλας
Γενική επιμέλεια Μαρία Ρεντετζή.
Το κείμενο δημοσιεύτηκε για πρώτη φορά στο "ΠΡΙΣΜΑ: Ένθετο για τις επιστήμες την τεχνολογία και την κοινωνία" που κυκλοφόρησε με την εφημερίδα Αυγή στις 27/07/2019.
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‘Faszination Forschungsreise‘ deals with scientific travel as a specific setting for the production of knowledge. Focusing on the 18th century, the article outlines how the main method of gaining knowledge, scientific observation, was subjected to regulation, control, and habitualization in order to obtain reliable research results. The ideal of scientific observation in travel instructions and the notes of travellers like Alexander von Humboldt, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort or Georg Forster show that well-established practices of gaining knowledge were combined with pragmatism in the face of the unpredictability of the travel situation.
Script and voice-over: Julia Carina Böttcher
Musical and Technical curation: Christos Koutsoulas
General supervision Maria Rentetzi.
The text was published for the first time in Friedrich: Forschungsmagazin der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, 120, 50-52. https://www.fau.de/files/2021/02/friedrich120_hin-und-wege.pdf
