{"id":160,"date":"2023-08-29T13:25:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/ic-wip\/?p=160"},"modified":"2023-08-29T13:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:25:12","slug":"great-exhibition-road-festival-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/ic-wip\/2023\/08\/29\/great-exhibition-road-festival-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Exhibition Road Festival 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ginevra Casati, a PhD student in the Plasma Physics group, was able to tell her personal 15-minute story of awe and wonder: \u201cLooking Up to Our Favourite Constellations<\/a>\u201d. Here are her reflections from the event!<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
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Ginevra Casati telling her story of awe and wonder at the Great Exhibition Road Festival 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

As physicists we are trained to communicate our science in a highly specific manner: concise, clear, objective, with little room for personal flair or whimsicality, so when I had the opportunity to learn how to tell a story to a lay audience, I was intrigued, but also a little bit daunted.<\/p>\n

Choosing a story to tell was not simple. I was afraid my audience wouldn\u2019t be entertained if I shared something completely autobiographic. I also wanted to leave my comfort zone and step out of the bounds of the research that takes up my working hours. I found that sharing a story about personal growth and passion with an audience of strangers made me feel vulnerable, but also more excited than talking about my results in front of scientists.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed the process of thinking creatively about my story and I was thrilled to have the chance to practice my storytelling skills with people of the caliber of Prof. Claudia de Rham.<\/p>\n

On the day, the reality of presenting at the Victoria and Albert Museum had me nervous and intimidated. As I made my way down exhibition road I was overwhelmed by the infectiously fun atmosphere of the festival, everywhere I looked there were curiosities on display, innovative workshops and the whole road was awash with bright colors. In that moment I realized I was part of the festival, and the feeling of belonging to something so huge made my nerves disappear almost completely, replaced with a powerful desire to leave my mark on the festival as best as I could.<\/p>\n

Stage fright was kept at bay by my close friends who came to support me.in more than one instance I felt a bit overwhelmed or didn\u2019t remember how to continue the story and looking at their smiling faces gave me the push I needed!<\/p>\n

Connecting with the audience during and after the story was special, I really enjoyed discussing parts of my tale with members of the audience and hearing how they interpreted what I said and how it resonated with them.<\/p>\n

Overall, it was an exhilarating experience which I am eager to repeat next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ginevra Casati, a PhD student in the Plasma Physics group, was able to tell her personal 15-minute story of awe and wonder: \u201cLooking Up to Our Favourite Constellations\u201d. Here are her reflections from the event! As physicists we are trained to communicate our science in a highly specific manner: concise, clear, objective, with little room […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/ic-wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/ic-wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/ic-wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/ic-wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/ic-wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/ic-wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/ic-wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/ic-wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/ic-wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/ic-wip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}