03/11

The har­row­ing events have long since passed, but the af­ter­math is still in­tense­ly no­ticea­ble today. The exhi­bition "Pic­turing the Invis­ible" by Dr. Takahashi sheds light on the legacy of trau­ma, radia­tion and the resili­ence of com­muni­ties to re­build after this disas­ter. In addi­tion to works of art pro­vided by vari­ous pho­togra­phers, each work is pro­vided with a com­ment by a spe­cialist, politi­cian, author or activ­ist. The exhi­bition was inau­gurat­ed in the Direc­tor’s Gal­lery in Lon­don and was soon on dis­play in the Im­ma­tricu­lation Hall of the TU Mu­nich. Ambi­tious stu­dents of a pro­ject course of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram "Re­spon­sibil­ity in Sci­ence, Engi­neer­ing, and Tech­nolo­gy" (RE­SET) were in­volved in every phase of the organ­iza­tion of Pic­turing the Invis­ible and wrote reflec­tions on the exhib­ited works. These as well as nu­mer­ous works and a com­pre­hen­sive exhi­bition histo­ry can be found on the pro­ject web­site.

In No­vem­ber 2023, the exhi­bition won an­other prize: The VU Start­er Show of the VU Am­ster­dam. The prize mon­ey will be used to bring the exhi­bition to Am­ster­dam in July 2024, in con­junc­tion with the 4S/EASST con­fer­ence orga­nized by VU Am­ster­dam.

Text: Victoria Bauer, Elite Graduate Program "Responsibility in Science, Engineering, and Technology (RESET)"