In 2025, the Netzwerk Naturwissen will once again be attending national and international conferences. With workshops, posters and discussion contributions, we are actively participating in current scientific and practice-oriented discourses on natural science, participation and communication.

Our next stops:

- Annual conference ‘Participation in Museums’

Date & location: 13 November at K20 in Düsseldorf

Format: Poster presentation ‘Museums in transition: Focus on impact and social knowledge’

Link: Jahrestagung 2025 - Netzwerk Besucher*innenforschung e.V.

- PartWiss25 – Researching together. Impulses from citizen science, participatory and transdisciplinary research

Date & location: 14 November, 1:30 p.m. at KUBUS in Leipzig

Format: Interactive workshop ‘Knowledge Loop as a Method of Knowledge Production in Museums’

Link: 2025 – Leipzig – Partizipation Wissenschaft

- ICOM General Conference 2025 – The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities

Date & location: 15 November, Dubai (online)

Format: Paper presentation ‘Speculative Experiments – Affective and Sensory Encounters in a Natural History Museum’ as

part of the session ‘Climate Justice, Equity, and Community’

Link: Shaping the Future of Museums and Heritage | ICOM Dubai 2025

- 2nd Annual Conference ‘Visual Geographies’

Date & Location: 20 November, at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig

Format: Workshop "Telling Nature's Story – Visual Storytelling on Human-Nature Relationships as Spatio-Temporal

Reflection Practice‘

Link: Visuelle Geographien und Zeit: 2. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises

We look forward to exchanging ideas with colleagues, gaining new insights, contributing our experiences in various interdisciplinary contexts, and helping to further develop participatory and interdisciplinary approaches in the field of natural sciences.

We will share our impressions and the results of our conference contributions here and on LinkedIn afterwards.