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The focus of the poster presentation was the physical outcome - configurable poster and its digital representation of "Science Matters". "Science Matters: Scientific and Artistic Research" was an experimental, cross-disciplinary course that brought together students from different academic levels (Bachelor, Masters and PhD) across the different Circle U universities. Students engaged in multi-lingual collaboration (in English, French, or German) with international peers from the life sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts. The Science Matters course fostered a collaborative learning experience, in which students critically reflected on their own disciplines and research practices. They used a wide range of unfamiliar research materials and techniques (such as drawing, collage, digital design, or AI image generation). This course emphasized coproduction, offering opportunities to experience ways of thinking, working and making through discussion, text and image-creation. These approaches are inherently plural and invoke multiple perspectives simultaneously. The course addressed mapping as a form of knowledge production and knowledge representation, by combining group exercises and guided prompts, short lectures (covering Ontology and Epistemology, Multi-omics Data Integration), and guest lectures on interdisciplinary research practices. Working through these activities, the participants developed a common visual language, created and curated the images displayed on this poster, and shared their experiences, assumptions, and questions arising within their respective fields.