Beyond Words: Making Science Visual

In this final online seminar, Arctic PASSION presented an important and often underestimated pathway of learning and building connection: Visual Communication. Illustrator and animator Hasan Abbas (art Lead at GRID-Arendal) shared his perspectives on exploring drawing, symbols, and visual expression not as artistic skills to be perfected, but as doorways into awareness, storytelling, and shared understanding. Rather than focusing on technique or aesthetics, this seminar opened space to reflect on how we make meaning and how we share knowledge: How do our cultural references, personal experiences, and ways of seeing shape the images we create? What happens when we let go of “drawing well” and instead attend to how we think, feel, and connect through visuals? Speaker: Hasan Abbas, Art Lead at GRID-Arendal, Norway Moderation: Lisa Grosfeld and Josefine Lenz, Project managers at the Alfred Wegener Institute and APECS

Dec 18, 2025 - 19:00
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Beyond Words: Making Science Visual

In this final online seminar, Arctic PASSION presented an important and often underestimated pathway of learning and building connection: Visual Communication.

Illustrator and animator Hasan Abbas (art Lead at GRID-Arendal) shared his perspectives on exploring drawing, symbols, and visual expression not as artistic skills to be perfected, but as doorways into awareness, storytelling, and shared understanding. Rather than focusing on technique or aesthetics, this seminar opened space to reflect on how we make meaning and how we share knowledge: How do our cultural references, personal experiences, and ways of seeing shape the images we create? What happens when we let go of “drawing well” and instead attend to how we think, feel, and connect through visuals?

Speaker: Hasan Abbas, Art Lead at GRID-Arendal, Norway

Moderation: Lisa Grosfeld and Josefine Lenz, Project managers at the Alfred Wegener Institute and APECS