In November and December 2023, Cosmocité hosted a journalist in residence in its immersive rooms, who focused on innovative scientific communication formats. Return to this experience.
In 2023, Amcsti, the professional network of scientific, technical and industrial cultures, in collaboration with AJSPI, the Association of French Science Journalists, launched a short-stay program that allows science journalists to observe the mediation work and daily life of scientific cultural structures in their place or at Roaming.
The objectives of this program are to establish a connection between scientific cultural structures and scientific journalists, to enable journalists to participate in outreach and training measures in a scientific approach, and to confront editorial teams with the reality of the public and its questions in all areas.
In this context, for six half days in November and December 2023, the Territoire de Sciences welcomed the journalist Emma Bellavia, winner of the Science & Vie 2023 prize for young science journalist and student of the master's program in Scientific and Technical Communication and Culture (CCST).) of of the University of Grenoble Alpes and member of the scientific mediation association Auroralpes.
The theme of this residency revolved around the idea of immersion in museums and science centers. A topic that the journalist was able to question through exchanges with numerous local actors and through experiences in the Planetarium and the Immersive Room at Cosmocité. She discussed the following topics:
The notion of immersion in scientific cultural formats in France and internationally (ECSITE, HUB Montreal, SPACE Consortium, etc.) with Audrey Korczynska, project manager at Territoire de Sciences.
The planetarium and the immersive space of Cosmocité, their technical features and the formats developed there in collaboration with local partners (researchers, teachers) and technical service providers, with Emmanuel Laisné and Fanny Musso, project manager and mediator-designer at Territoire de Wissenschaften
The escape game “Ice Core Adventure” (Théoriz / RSA Cosmos / Territoire de Sciences), with the scientific facilitators Julien Dang and Manon Pellissier, who moderated the game and presented the peculiarities of the facilitator's work in this format , as well as glaciologist Bruno Jourdain (UGA / OSUG), scientific advisor to the project
Future immersive CNRS conferences presented at Cosmocité in 2024, with Emmanuel Laisné, Marion Sabourdy, head of new media at the Territoire de Sciences, coordinator of this residency and Adolfo Grushin, physicist (CNRS, Institut Néel)
The planetarium session “Under the Chilean Sky” on the starry sky of the southern hemisphere, presented by Fanny Musso and together with José Olivares Flores, physics and chemistry teacher at the Vaucanson High School in Grenoble and sponsor of the “Expedition to the Foot of the Stars” project
Under the Chilean sky – Illustration Emmanuel Lepage
The use of VR headsets, in particular the Sphères experience, in conjunction with the Festivals Connexion network, presented during the NoS FuturS festival at Cosmocité in February 2024 by Jonathan Bazin, Director of Development and Engineering Culture at Territoire de Sciences
The 3D scanner of the Fab Lab by La Casemate and the potential of such a tool within a Fab Lab or more generally for artistic and cultural purposes by Gaétan Bobichon, designer and Fab facilitator
To end these meetings in style, Emma was invited to attend an astronomical observation evening in the company ofAnaël wishes, astrophysicist and recognized trainer of the French Astronomical Association at the Baronnies Provençales Observatory
This residency was an opportunity for all speakers to talk about their work and current projects in terms of synthesis and reflection, but also to meet again and outline new perspectives.
In parallel with this article and thread on, an article about this residency, written by Emma, will be published in June/July in the next Amcsti Bulletin and forwarded to Echosciences Grenoble.
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Thanks
A big thank you goes to the following people and structures: the journalist Emma Bellavia, the Territoire de Sciences team, the researchers Adolfo Grushin and Bruno Jourdain, the teacher José Olivares Flores, the astrophysicist Anaël Wunsch, the Amcsti (especially Renaud Sorot), the AJSPI, the Master CCST (in particular Mikaël Chambru and Laura Schlenker), the CNRS, the University of Grenoble Alpes.