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. Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    04.02.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  2. Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    05.12.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Kunst und Öffentlichkeit

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    03.06.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Kybernetische Biopolitik

    Laura Hille (Speaker)

    04.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Leading without formal power

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    17.05.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Lecture of Praeter Naturam: Beyond Nature

    Sacha Kagan (Organiser)

    03.06.2014

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

  7. Les économies de la misére: Pierre Bourdieu et la photographie ethnographique

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    24.02.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. Lives of the secret: Rimini Protokoll’s Top Secret International (State 1)

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    08.06.201711.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Lower Saxony — Scotland Joint Forum 2020

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    24.11.2020

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

  10. Ludic Overload - Ludic Overkill: Gamification in the age of Media Overload

    Mathias Fuchs (Lecturer)

    13.09.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  11. Manet und die Revolution des Impressionismus

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    24.10.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  12. Mapping the Field of Contemporary Art

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    11.01.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  13. MA Seminar: The Politics of Organization - WiSe 2014/2015

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    15.10.201401.02.2015

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

  14. MA Seminar "Whither theatre? The role and organization of culture in the 21st century" 2007

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.200715.07.2007

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

  15. Measuring is Knowing

    Martin Warnke (Speaker)

    17.01.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    26.11.201228.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. Medienorganisationstheorie

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    18.05.2018

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

  18. Mental representations of art field globalization

    Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)

    04.10.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  19. meson press (Publisher)

    Martina Leeker (Editor), Andreas Bernard (Editor), Armin Beverungen (Editor), Irina Kaldrack (Editor), Sascha Simons (Editor) & Florian Sprenger (Editor)

    2015

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  20. meson press (Publisher)

    Boris Traue (Editor)

    01.08.201501.04.2017

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  21. meson press (Publisher)

    Andreas Bernard (Editor)

    2018

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

  22. Methods of Media Studies

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    11.03.201513.03.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  23. Michael Warner,Publics and Counterpublics (2002)

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    17.01.2018

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

  24. Michel de Certeau as a Theorist of Hacking

    Lisa Conrad (Oral presentation)

    24.08.201325.08.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  25. Mobilising Memes: The Contagious Socio-Aesthetics of Participation

    Sascha Simons (Speaker)

    08.05.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  26. Models & Mechanics: Knowledge Management in Charitable Organizations

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    22.04.2005

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

  27. Modewort "Innovation"

    Timon Beyes (Panel participant)

    19.01.2006

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

  28. Multiple Organizations. An Organization-Theoretical View on Nonprofits

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    06.09.200507.09.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  29. Multitudes Revues

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    03.12.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  30. Mute Books (Publisher)

    Clemens Apprich (Editor)

    01.12.201301.12.2014

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  31. Narratives of independent production in video game culture

    Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)

    26.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  32. Neue Medien in der Informationsgesellschaft - NMI 2012

    Martin Warnke (Speaker)

    05.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  33. New Forms of Organizing Culture MA Seminar - 2017/18

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2018

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

  34. New Sites in Organization Studies: A Seminar Series

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    20142015

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

  35. Niklas Luhmann am OVG Lüneburg.

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    05.12.201706.12.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  36. Oberflächen// Interfaces

    Irina Kaldrack (Organiser)

    21.03.201423.03.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  37. Öffentliche Kunst, Kunstfeld und öffentliche Sphäre

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    12.05.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  38. Öffentlichkeit und Strategie

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    01.06.201202.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  39. On the structurual Richness of Art Historical Discourse

    Martin Warnke (Lecturer)

    22.02.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  40. Organisation im soziotechnischen Gemenge

    Lisa Conrad (Oral presentation)

    16.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  41. Organizational Behaviour and Change

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    15.10.200801.02.2009

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

  42. Organization (Journal)

    Lisa Conrad (Editor), Armin Beverungen (Editor) & Timon Beyes (Editor)

    2019

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  43. Organization (Journal)

    Armin Beverungen (Editorial Board)

    01.07.2020 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  44. Organization Studies (Journal)

    Timon Beyes (Editorial Board)

    2017 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  45. Organization Studies (Journal)

    Timon Beyes (Editor)

    2019 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  46. Organization Studies Workshop: Technology and organization - 2019

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    23.05.201925.05.2019

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

  47. Organization theory and the politics of space

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    15.02.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  48. Organize

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    08.10.201510.10.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  49. Organize: Satin Island.

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    19.04.2017

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

  50. Orientation workshop on "historical research projects using geographical data and GIS technology" - 2013

    Martin Warnke (Opponent)

    15.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch