Future Ocean Dialogue in Sao Paulo

German version: See below A blue container with the inscription “Understanding the ocean sustaining our future”, has been placed in the middle of the campus of the University of Sao Paulo since about two weeks, an amazing eye catcher for our exhibition “Future Ocean Dialogue” which opened in the museum of the oceanographic institute on […]

Ausstellungseröffnung in Natal

No news are good news? Noch haben wir keine Neuigkeiten aus Natal, wo die Ausstellung gestern feierlich eröffnet wurde und nun 10 Tage lang auf dem Campus der Universität im Núcleo de Arte e Cultura da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte für alle Interessierten offen steht. Am Wochenende kam aber doch eine gute […]

Future Ocean Dialogue successfully opened!

We finally received that important message from Fortaleza all of us back in Kiel were eagerly waiting for: The Future Ocean Dialogue has now officially and successfully been opened to the public and everything turned out to be just fine! Visitors and official guests from DAAD, DWIH and the embassy alike all seemed to be […]

New Exhibition Website Launched

With the exhibition starting in Fortaleza today, we simultaneously launched the official “Future Ocean Dialogue”-Website. It features an additional online experience for visitors of the exhibition, offering further information that go beyond the actual exhibits. Those additional contents are mainly interactive multimedia items that were especially optimized for mobile devices. So those tech-savvy visitors that like to […]

One day to go!

Good news from beyond the ocean: Our exhibition team has arrived safely in Fortaleza/Brazil and the container not only made it to the port but is finally at the exhibition venue Dragao do Mar where the exhibits have already been unloaded. With now only 24 hours remaining until the grand premiere, excitement back here in Kiel is peaking  and we’re […]

New Video: Making of ‘Future Ocean Dialogue’

While tension is increasing with the exhibition’s world premiere in Fortaleza/Brazil only six days away, it’s time to take a look behind the scenes and set the mood for the “Future Ocean Dialogue” coming up: On occasion of the exhibitioners taking care of the final preparations before shipping the container to Brazil, also some video […]

Handling of a Travelling Exhibition

A basic requirement a travelling exhibition needs to meet is mobility. The Future Ocean Dialogue was hence designed to fit into a a single container that can easily be shipped to any international destination. Mobility is reflected in the exhibition concept even further: The modules themselves also serve as transport boxes and easily convert in […]

Off to Brazil

After being carefully stowed into the custom 20-foot Future Ocean container, the exhibition left Kiel today. It’s now underway to the port of Hamburg where it will be loaded for the passage across the Atlantic. Once aboard the container vessel crossing the ocean, it’s in the (hopefully) caring hands of the freight company and nautical crew […]

How does one assemble a travelling exhibition?

This is a question the exhibition team and the Brazilian partners had to face sooner or later. Choosing the sooner option, the Future Ocean Dialogue-Exhibition was test assembled and carefully checked at GEOMAR east shore building and underwent quality inspection before the customs procedure took place. It was a great pleasure to see how smoothly […]

Final Preparations in Kiel

After just five months of preparation, the Future Ocean and GEOMAR joint exhibition team managed to meet the tight deadlines and put together a completely new travelling exhibition called “Future Ocean Dialogue”. To communicate the significance of marine sciences to international audiences, they created a conclusive exhibition concept, blending multimedia content with text banners and […]