A Sensitive Science Communication Guide

 It is a great pleasure to present you our "sensitive science communication guide".

Wanting to introduce your research project means inviting people to wander through a forest of documents and scientific information. And if, just like in a forest, multiple paths would be available, paths we can take or leave behind, would that say that every person who encounters this research project would have a personal and unique interpretation based on their age, educational or academic background, profession, personal interests, or culture? And what does mean for science communication? It was based on these questions that the ECODOC team experimented different ways to explore research projects, allowing every participant to find and express their own way and path in the reading, feeling and understand of scientific information.

The "Sensitive Readings of Science guide" presents these experimentations, these communication methods rooted in sensitive and experimental approaches. It is intended for anyone (researchers, mediators, librarians, facilitators) who wishes to explore new ways of reading, expressing, or engaging with research.

The guide is structured into two main parts. A first part that revisits the construction of the documentary corpus, i.e., a set of key scientific documents and data from a research project, which serves as the necessary foundation for any mediation action. A second part that details three experimentations proposed and tested during the ECODOC project:

• "Telling the Story of Science": on scientific storytelling;
• "From Tree to Leaf": science slam workshops;
• "Your Turn to Play": co-designing serious games.

The guide was designed and written by the ECODOC team and laid out by graphic designer Marie Gaffet. It was written with Mathilde Garnier and the whole lead comittee.

The guide is available :
* On Zenodo : https://zenodo.org/records/20553654

* On HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05135709v2

The French and original version is also available :
* On Zenodo : https://zenodo.org/records/15771901
* On HAL : soon