ISOSCAN participants at the Bergen kickoff. Left to right: Kristof Tomej, Harald Sodemann, Benjamin Fischer, Mahaut de Vareilles, Janne Liburd, Delphin Ruché, Andrea Popp. Photo: Kristof Tomej.
Seven ISOSCAN participants met in snowy Bergen in the beginning of April to kick off the project. As we took our lookout at the great Kranen venue in the harbour, we asked: how do we go about working together on this complex, interdisciplinary project? Maybe surprising, but in the end, the natural answer was – by establishing relations between us as the project participants. How did we get to where we are now? Why are we interested in doing what we are doing? Understanding each other helps us understand each other’s way of thinking and our intentions, and thus lays the foundation for working together mostly remotely in the coming months. Furthermore, there was time to map out the first steps of the project work, and to identify where we need to spell out more concretely what is to be done and how. And we engaged in an exciting co-creation activity led by Janne and Kristof to figure out the journey of a sampling kit.