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05 / SCIENCE × ART
SECTOR · CULTURE
WORKSHOP → RESIDENCY
2026
04 Audience

Science×Art

Turn your research or institutional theme into a piece of culture that travels. Film, music, performance, campaigns.

PhD ecologist · Dance Your PhD winner · WildWooHoo studio

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As featured in Science / AAAS NPR The Guardian Smithsonian ABC
Who it's for
  • Research institutes & university labs
  • Cultural orgs, museums, festivals
  • Public-good funders & foundations
  • Comms, engagement, and policy teams
What partners walk away with
  • A real piece of culture tied to their work
  • Reach beyond their usual audience
  • A method they can repeat with their next theme
Formats
  • Sprint workshop (1 to 3 days)
  • Creative lab (multi-session)
  • Residency or partnership build
Quick request

Share your theme, the audience you want to reach, and the funding window. I'll come back with a scoped collaboration.

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Delivery
Formats

F.01

Workshop

  • Focused ideation & prototype sessions
  • Good for teams starting collaboration
  • Short, practical, decision-ready output
F.02

Creative lab

  • Multi-session experimentation process
  • Rapid testing & collaborative development
  • Builds reusable cross-disciplinary methods
F.03

Residency / partnership

  • Embedded, longer-horizon co-creation
  • Institution & cultural partner alignment
  • Campaign, showcase, or strategic outputs

Main
offer

M.01 / Featured

Build a Kangaroo Time-style piece around your theme

A commissioned engagement where we take a research question, an institutional focus, or a campaign brief and turn it into a real piece of culture using the WildWooHoo studio process. The output is the deliverable. A song, a short film, a performance, a public moment, a piece of integrated media. Designed to reach audiences your usual channels do not.

How it runs

Theme intake and concept workshop. A creative lab cycle with your team. Production through the WildWooHooWildWooHoo studio and its collaborator network. Public release with you as named partner. Sized to your funding window, from a single piece to a multi-channel campaign.

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Workshop
Themes

T.01

Nature-science storytelling

Research translated into film, music, and visual story. Emotion-led, culturally fluent, designed for reach beyond academic channels.

T.02

Creative lab series

Multi-session experimentation for cross-disciplinary teams. Rapid testing, collaborative development, reusable methods you can run again later.

T.03

Transforming complex themes into compelling art

The Falling Walls Engage 2025 shortlisted workshop, adapted for institutions. Take a hard piece of research and shape it into work that lands with a specific audience without losing what made it worth doing.

T.04

Public-impact campaigns

Collaborations built for reach, co-created with institutions, festivals, and cultural partners through WildWooHooWildWooHoo.

T.05

Connecting science and culture in the creative space

Interconnected narratives across disciplines. A workshop for teams that want to see their work as part of a wider cultural conversation, and find the threads that link it to art, music, and public feeling.

Outcome
focus

  • A real piece of culture tied to your research or institutional theme
  • Reach into audiences your usual channels do not touch
  • Press coverage and named credit for your institution as cultural partner
  • A repeatable method your team can use on the next theme
  • Reportable engagement and impact data for funder acquittal

Proof
in action

Transmission, flagship

// Flagship Science × Art storytelling, public-facing format

Partner
FAQ

What is the difference between a sprint, a creative lab and a residency?

A sprint workshop runs 1 to 3 days, a creative lab runs over multiple sessions, and a residency or partnership is an embedded, longer-horizon co-creation. Each is sized to your funding window.

What outputs do you deliver?

A real piece of culture, a song, a short film, a performance, a public moment or integrated media, produced through the WildWooHoo studio and released with your institution as named partner.

Can you work within our grant or funding window?

Yes. Engagements are sized from a single piece to a multi-channel campaign to fit your funding window and reach goals.

Do you provide engagement and impact data for funder acquittal?

Yes. Reportable engagement and impact data is part of the deliverable.

Who is it for?

Research institutes and university labs, cultural organisations, museums and festivals, and public-good funders and foundations.

Do you perform at science festivals or public events?

Yes. WELI performs at science festivals and public events, turning research into film, music and performance that reaches a wide audience.

Do you work as a science communication consultant?

Yes. WildWooHoo offers science communication and creative-engagement consultancy, helping institutions and funders turn research into culture that travels.

Can you run a public engagement or science engagement program?

Yes. We design public-engagement and science-engagement programs and campaigns, co-created with institutions, festivals and funders, with impact data for acquittal.

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