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
  1. 2012
  2. Die Kunst in der Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit und die ‚Krise der Kunstkritik’

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    24.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Mediating Atmospheres: Apprehending the Intersections of Data, Memory and Space

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    26.11.201228.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. BBC Games Event 2012

    Mathias Fuchs (Chair)

    27.11.201228.11.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  5. BBC Fusion Summit: Playful interfaces for playful human beings: the future of game interfaces

    Paolo Ruffino (Lecturer)

    28.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    05.12.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. Terra Critica: Re-visioning the Critical Task of the Humanities in a Globalized World

    Mercedes Bunz (Speaker)

    07.12.2012 → …

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Curator-artist Interactions: Forms of Exchange under the Pressure of the Logic of the Market

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    14.12.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. 2013
  10. GAME : the Italian journal of game studies (Journal)

    Paolo Ruffino (Editor)

    01.01.201331.12.2013

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  11. Mapping the Field of Contemporary Art

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    11.01.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  12. Measuring is Knowing

    Martin Warnke (Speaker)

    17.01.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  13. The Production of Value – a Sociological Perspective

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    26.01.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  14. Remixing Digital Cities

    Mathias Fuchs (Lecturer)

    31.01.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  15. Transmediale - 2013

    Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)

    02.02.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. Aufstieg und Niedergang der öffentlichen Sphäre. Die Theorie von Jürgen Habermas und ihre Kritik

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    04.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  17. Die Transformation des Kunstfeldes

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    07.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  18. Gamification

    Mathias Fuchs (Lecturer)

    08.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  19. 4th Workshop on Complex Networks - CompleNet 2013

    Martin Warnke (Keynote speaker)

    14.03.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  20. Games for Change: Spiele zum Thema Rassismus und Heterosexismus

    Niklas Schrape (Lecturer)

    16.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  21. Narratives of independent production in video game culture

    Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)

    26.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  22. Table Talks Künstlerische Forschung des Labors Theaterforschung - UDK 2013

    Ulf Wuggenig (Participant)

    19.04.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

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