Abstract
Dealing with the question of the connections between the development of science and the tasks of science communication this essay presents reflections about relationships, developments and approaches. The first part explores scientific transformations, introduces the idea of transformative sciences, and discusses the implications of both. How to cope with the sciences’ dilemma of being simultaneously part of the solution and of the problem is the focus of the second part. The third part analyses opportunities for redirecting scientific practice. Finally the text examines capacities of generative approaches in their relation to the capacities of the interplay of images, imaginaries and imagination by referring to the example of «particles in love».