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Mediation concepts Communication

The Humboldt Lab’s new website: Visual appearance as a formula

The Humboldt Lab combines science, exchange and the joy of experimentation – a concept that is aptly reflected in the lab’s new flexible visual identity. The special mixture of integration and independence led to the development of a visual design...
Society Research

A Question of Perspective

Since its opening in July 2021, the exhibition After Nature in the Humboldt Lab has changed and evolved. In addition to new research stations and objects, new texts have been written by young people and students. With the help of...
Environment Society
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Climate change

City, Countryside and River under Change

How do ecosystems change with rising temperatures? Where are potential flood plains in the Berlin-Brandenburg region? And how must cities and municipalities manage their (waste) water in order to protect people and the environment in the future? Researchers from the...

Past and Future of the Great Aletsch Glacier

A 200-year-old relief of the Alps meets an interactive virtual reality installation. During the Berlin Science Week, the historical Aletsch model from the Humboldt Forum and the VR project „Expedition 2 Grad“ from the Universities of Zurich and Fribourg and...
Communication Society
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After nature

The world is smaller than you think

How do colours affect us? Does the hand of a chimpanzee belong in a museum? And can our consumer behaviour help to improve conditions in the global clothing industry? These are questions that Mouhamed Abed-Ali and Jan Hagen discussed with...
Mediation concepts Species extinction

Treasure hunt in the Wunderkammer

New educational concepts for pupils in the Humboldt Lab From pangolins to washing-up liquid bottles: Bachelor’s and Master’s students at Humboldt-Universität have developed concepts in seminars to explore and discuss objects in the Humboldt Lab with pupils from a primary...
Racism Responsibility
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Research

Human larynxes in the sound archive

A research project investigated the history of the origin of the ‘Human Remains’. The specimens may have come from prisoners of war in what is now Namibia. This text addresses war, physical violence, human remains and racism, which some readers...
Society Responsibility
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Colonialism

Moving the Forum: Living masks and dancing bodies

The Humboldt Forum will be set in motion on 11 June. The fourth and final part of the Moving the Forum project, entitled Interacting, will be presented at various locations inside and outside the cultural institution. In this context, the...
Responsibility Interaction

The constructed reef: corals from Cuba

Corals from Cuba tell a little-known story of science and politics, of collecting and destruction, of images and likenesses. Less than a decade after the Cuban Revolution, scientists and taxidermists from the Institute for Special Zoology and the Zoological Museum...