Centre for Digital Cultures
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
The Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) unites a large range of research and development activities dedicated to the digital shift. It engages in knowledge creation and transfer, experimental and interventionist media practices, and research in disciplines such as media, social and cultural studies. The CDC aims to both understand the epochal digital shift through excellent research, and to become one of the major European forces that shape digital cultures to come.
The CDC has seen a remarkable uptake of successful funding bids. The major projects are funded by the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRE) and the State of Lower Saxony, by the German Research Council (DFG) and the VW Foundation respectively. Additional smaller projects are supported by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Transmediale, and the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). The CDC has by now more than 80 researchers and cultural producers from all over the world. They work on questions such as:
- Transmedia: How can we understand and develop new formats for entertainment as well as culture and education, merging different forms of production, participation, distribution and aesthetics?
- User and Audience Research: What kind of methods enable us to understand new usage and consumption patterns, addressing digital cultures’ both global and local audiences?
- Gamification: Computer games have a growing relevance in contemporary life, not only due to the games themselves, but also through their metaphors and methods. What new opportunities arise?
- Common Media: Which new forms of citizenship and cultural/political engagement are developing in the digital age, and how can we understand, enact and strengthen them?
- Net based Public Broadcast: How can publicly funded provision of information, education, culture and entertainment adapt to the internet? How can new versions of basic provision be realized?
- Hybrid Publishing: Which avenues for the communication and dissemination of knowledge beyond classrooms and research articles can be constructed, adapting the cultural and economic logic of the digital age?
- Computer Simulation: From climate change to mass panics: Knowledge production based on computer simulation is shaping our worldview. How can we analyse and understand its effects?
Research and development at the CDC traverse boundaries between the academic sector, culture and the arts, industry, governmental bodies and civil society. It is a conducive, productive and experimental research environment, in which researchers and entrepreneurs, activists and artists, producers and hackers, thinkers and doers broker dynamic connections. Visions, blueprints and experimental findings get exposed to real-world conditions. The development of innovative teaching formats is a further crucial part of the mix: Leuphana Digital School is bringing knowledge and education online, and a new English-speaking Bachelor in Digital Media started in autumn 2013, developed in cooperation with Leuphana’s Institute for the Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media, Hamburg Media School and Hongkong City University. The result is a new, open and engaged form of research and development for Europe’s digital cultures.
Topics
- Transmedia
- User and Audience Research
- Gamification
- Common Media
- Net based Public Broadcast
- Hybrid Publishing
- Computer Simulation
- Artistic Research
- New Teaching Formats
- 2008
Femina Politica (Journal)
Magdalena Freudenschuß (Editor)
2008 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
04.02.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Improbable spaces: Looking back upon a future city
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
26.02.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Hochschule und unternehmerische Praxis 2008
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
10.04.2008 → 11.04.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Strangely familiar: The spatial uncanny and the study of organizational space
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
04.06.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Strangely familiar. The spatial uncanny and the study of organizational space
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
25.06.2008 → 27.06.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The becoming-spatial of organization theory: Unfolding the spatial turn in organization studies
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
01.07.2008 → 04.07.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Organization and the City: A Dialogue on Berlin
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
01.07.2008 → 04.07.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Upsetting participation? Modes of ordering art spaces
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
10.07.2008 → 12.07.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The organization and the city
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
16.07.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Die Tradition der Sozialfotografie und die Darstellung der Ökonomie des Elends bei Bourdieu
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
25.08.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
What kind of management for nonprofit-organizations?, Invited lecture
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
26.09.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Bauhaus University of Weimar
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
10.2008 → 04.2009Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft - 2008
Florian Sprenger (Speaker)
02.10.2008 → 04.10.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
A Town (Not a City)
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2008 → 01.02.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Organizational Behaviour and Change
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2008 → 01.02.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
The design of urban spaces between administration and creativity, Invited lecture
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
17.10.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
The Future of the Ordinary City
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
31.10.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Transformationen des Kunstfeldes
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
26.11.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten für angehende Kunstkritiker/innen
Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)
28.11.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research