The brief.
How do we help pupils in the classroom to make sense of the relationship between religion and science? How do we help pupils to make sense of these two different ways of knowing? How can we help teachers to dialogue with each other from these two different subject areas? These are just some of the questions arising from NICER’s research into Science Religion encounters in the classroom.
We needed a simple, and yet visually rich, animation to help explore some of these questions with the aid of visual storytelling, as well as creating a strong narrative to underpin the whole research project.
Story driven explainer.
Working on this project required a deeper understanding of how to communicate how science and religion are two different ways of seeing the same things. One with a narrow beam of attention – science, and the other with a broad beam of attention – religion. The visual clues, that sit throughout the animation, start from the two separate islands, and end with the young person being able to integrate the two different ways of knowing.
Underlying this simple animation are a range of deep insights and layers of meaning that create an ideal stimulus to help audiences discuss and think about this complex issue.
The look and feel of this animation, designed for an academic institution, was deliberately simple, formal and contained retro illustrations to help drive the overall feel of the story.
The use of colours are also representative of research into left and right hemisphere attention, as well as religion and scientific perspectives. Helping pupils to see that there is not only one way to look at and interpret reality, creates a powerful meta-narrative that can help change the culture of scientific and religious thinking, and the perceived conflict between the two.
We also created a Welsh language version of the animation, to help NICER work with audiences in Wales.
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