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. BA Seminar: Aesthetics and Marketing - 2016

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201615.07.2016

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

  2. BA Seminar: Cultural Entrepreneurship - 2016

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201615.07.2016

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

  3. BA Seminar "Organisation als Black Box. Neuere Ansätze der Organisationssoziologie" - 2005

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.200501.02.2007

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

  4. BA Seminar Sociology of Power

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.200401.02.2007

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

  5. BA Seminar "Strategische Herausforderungen in Nonprofit-Organisationen" - 2005

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.200415.07.2005

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

  6. BA Seminar: Theories of Contemporary Society II

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201615.07.2016

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

  7. Bauhaus University of Weimar

    Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)

    10.200804.2009

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  8. Bauhaus University of Weimar (External organisation)

    Claus Pias (Member)

    01.200512.2013

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  9. Bauhaus University of Weimar (External organisation)

    Claus Pias (Member)

    20042011

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Beltz Juventa Verlag (Publisher)

    Boris Traue (Editor)

    01.07.201501.06.2017

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of unfinished anthology/collectionResearch

  13. Beobachter beobachten: Implikationen der Kybernetik zweiter Ordnung für die Managementtheorie

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    14.11.200316.11.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. Berliner Gespräche zur Digitalen Kunstgeschichte - 2013

    Martin Warnke (presenter)

    18.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. Between the Wage and the Commons

    Holger Kuhn (Moderator)

    05.06.201706.06.2017

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

  16. Beyond Gamification: From Problem-solving to Problem-making

    Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)

    10.10.201312.10.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. Black Box Imagination: Zur Undurchschaubarkeit von Organisation

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    17.10.2020

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

  18. Bourdieus Fotografie zu den Ökonomien des Elends

    Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)

    22.06.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  19. Calculated Publics

    Timon Beyes (Keynote Speaker)

    22.03.2021

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

  20. Center for Advanced Internet Studies GmbH

    Armin Beverungen (Visiting researcher)

    01.03.201915.10.2019

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  21. Cent­re for Di­gi­tal Cul­tu­res Lüneburg (Publisher)

    Martina Leeker (Editor)

    10.2014 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of unfinished anthology/collectionResearch

  22. Cities and Creativity: Urban Ethnographies MA Seminar - 2018

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    01.04.200515.07.2018

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

  23. City of enterprise, city as prey? On urban entrepreneurial spaces

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    06.06.200408.06.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  24. Ciudades Paralelas – Pararelle Städte

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    10.04.2012

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

  25. Colloquium social critique - 2017

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2018

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

  26. Colour is as colour does: Green and social ordering

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    19.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  27. Companion to the Humanities and Social Sciences Writing Workshop - 2014

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    19.05.201421.05.2014

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

  28. Computersimulation als Erkenntnismethode

    Martin Warnke (Lecturer)

    15.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  29. Computersimulation als Erkenntnismethode

    Martin Warnke (Speaker)

    30.01.201431.01.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  30. Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology - EASST 2018

    Lisa Conrad (Organiser)

    25.07.201828.07.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  31. Contingency and Management

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    23.10.2002

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

  32. Course/Conference - European Summer Academy 2019 - Be creative!

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    26.05.201931.05.2019

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

  33. Creating Effects. Creativity and the New Spirit of Capitalism

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    10.11.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  34. Creativity and Social Organization MA Seminar - 2018

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201815.07.2018

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

  35. Critical Socio-Political-Organization in Digital Cultures

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    11.01.201812.01.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  36. Crossing boundaries

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    25.06.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  37. CTRL + F_eminist futures: Hacking algorithmic architectures of cities to come

    Maja-Lee Voigt (Speaker)

    07.07.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  38. Cultural Entrepreneurship Series - 2015

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    2015

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

  39. 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

  40. Cyberlab Symposium - 2010

    Martina Leeker (Organiser)

    06.03.201014.03.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  41. Cybernetics, Management, Organization: The case of St.Gallen

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    16.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  42. Daniel Libeskind - FuturoPolis

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    26.10.2005

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

  43. Das Feld der zeitgenössischen visuellen Kunst: Strukturwandel und Reproduktion

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    28.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  44. Das Konzept der ästhetischen Erfahrung als soziale und politische Falle

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    07.04.2000

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  45. Das Kunstfeld. Eine Studie über Akteure und Institutionen der zeitgenössischen Kunst

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    04.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  46. Das subversive Bild

    Martin Warnke (Speaker)

    22.07.201323.07.2013

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

  47. Data & Drama - 2019

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker), Randi Heinrichs (Speaker) & Boukje Cnossen (Speaker)

    10.04.2019

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

  48. Data Studio 1

    Lisa Conrad (Participant)

    11.07.201612.07.2016

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

  49. Den Tod des Autors begraben

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    27.11.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch