Fifty Percent Human is an inter and cross disciplinary research collaborative. The aim of the first platform meeting of the core team was thus to get a deeper insight into everyone’s background and previous research. Sonja Bäumel’s talk started off with a summary of inspiring projects potentially relevant to ‘Ten percent human’. She talked about her ongoing research and creative process: her interest lies in the human body and the unexpected diversity of the human ecosystem, in its ‘social network’ and in our changing perspective on the human body. Birgit Nemec talked about her work in the field of History of Science: in the first part of her presentation she told the story of the making of two anatomical atlas books in interwar Vienna to show how the epistemological foundations of the biomedical sciences as we know them today intertwined with political, economic and technological imperatives. In the second part Birgit stretched out the fascinating history of bacteriology – from Van Leeuwenhoek’s discovery in the 17th century to the ‘preventive self’ of modern risk society. Both talks shared the aim to encourage critical reflections of the coming into existence of scientific knowledge, of powerful images and objects in the sciences, of inner images and visualizations that changed and constantly change our perceptions of the human body. To conclude, the core project team discussed the possible impact of artistic experimentation, historical and philosophical studies on the democratization of scientific research.