When Research Meets Creativity

What happens when you stop trying to teach science and start performing it? This talk focusses on co-creation and skill-sharing between scientific experts and specialists in creative communication, explaining how Lincoln Arts Centre has been using theatrical collaboration between the arts and science to engage young people with complex scientific topics. Practical and engaging demonstrations with professional production values always keep the science at the core, ensuring nothing is “dumbed down”, but ideas are made accessible and comprehensible. We will demonstrate how we facilitate cross-discipline collaboration and knowledge exchange and make vibrant and meaningful theatre!

We process images far faster than text, but what does that mean for how we learn?
From pirate ships to global tragedies, a single image can trigger recognition, emotion and shared meaning in an instant. But reading a paragraph describing the same scene? That takes effort.
This talk explores how visual narratives, especially comics and graphic novels, can help us understand complex, information-heavy subjects. Drawing on research into visual recognition, semiotics and embodied learning, Mark will show how sequential imagery supports engagement, memory and deeper understanding.