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. Springer (Publisher)

    Laura Lambert (Editor)

    2022 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  2. Squirreling myself away from the world: Silence and fieldnotes

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker)

    10.04.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2019

    Timon Beyes (Organiser), Claus Pias (Organiser) & Nelly Yaa Pinkrah (Organiser)

    24.06.201928.06.2019

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

  4. Statusinkongruenz und kulturelle Distanz. Eine Anwendung der Korrespondenzanalyse

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    26.10.1996

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Statusinkongruenz und kulturelle Distanz in der Kunstwelt

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    07.1996

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Strangely familiar. The spatial uncanny and the study of organizational space

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    25.06.200827.06.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Strangely familiar: The spatial uncanny and the study of organizational space

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    04.06.2008

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

  8. Street Art und ARTotale

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    06.10.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. Surveillance Capitalism. Überwachen und unterhalten

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    14.12.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Symposium Data and Technics

    Irina Kaldrack (Speaker)

    24.04.201425.04.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  11. Symposiumof the Di­gi­tal Cul­tu­res Re­se­arch Lab and the In­sti­tu­te for De­sign Re­se­arch - 2015

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    27.01.201529.01.2015

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

  12. Symposium on the Politics and Aesthetics of Organization - 2010

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    15.09.201017.09.2010

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

  13. Symposium "ParCITYpate": Künstlerische Interventionen und Urbaner Raum

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    02.11.200703.11.2007

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

  14. Symposium "Passion Investments in Art Markets" 2011

    Ulf Wuggenig (Organiser)

    25.11.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  15. 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

  16. Tausend Ökologien

    Mercedes Bunz (Organiser)

    04.06.201305.06.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  17. Teaching Game Studies at DiGRA 2014

    Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)

    03.08.2014

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

  18. Technologies - Media - Hybrids / Toronto - Berlin - Paris

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker)

    04.07.201306.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Teilhaben: theatrale Interventionen in die unternehmerische Stadt

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    29.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. Teilnahme an Experten-Arbeitstreffen

    Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)

    06.11.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  21. Terms of Media I - 2015

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    17.06.201519.06.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  22. 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

  23. The Aesthetic Turn - SoSe 2014

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201415.07.2014

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

  24. The Arcane in Digital Cultures - 2018

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    21.11.2018

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

  25. The becoming-spatial of organization theory: Unfolding the spatial turn in organization studies

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    01.07.200804.07.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  26. The Business of Teaching - 2016

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    20.06.201624.06.2016

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

  27. The business university and the future city

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    29.06.2007

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

  28. The city and the grassroots

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    05.05.2010

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

  29. The Dealer as a Genius. Creative Industry Approaches to Art History

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    01.09.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  30. The death of the stories we used to tell

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    10.05.200712.05.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  31. The design of urban spaces between administration and creativity, Invited lecture

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    17.10.2008

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

  32. The Digital Games Research Association - DiGRA 2014

    Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)

    03.08.201406.08.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  33. The Distributed Human: Work, Habit and Subjects after Digital Media - SoSe 2015

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201515.07.2015

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

  34. The distribution of the insensible: Organizational aesthetics in the age of digital reproduction

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    06.07.201708.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  35. The everyday production of space: Snapshots from spatial configurations in Chinese bureaucracy

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    24.11.200926.11.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  36. The Future of Critical Art Institutions. The 'Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg'

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    12.10.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  37. THE FUTURE OF ephemera - 2019

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker)

    02.05.201903.05.2019

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

  38. The Future of the Ordinary City

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    31.10.2008

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

  39. The ignorant educators: Teaching “Cities and Creativity”

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    08.11.201210.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  40. The impossible house of art. Aesthetics and politics of organizing urban space

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    18.07.200720.07.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  41. The Invention of Creativity and the Aesthetics of Social Change - 2014

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    02.10.2014

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

  42. The Invisible Man in the Digital Age: From Anonymity to Invisibility, A right to remain Unknown

    Paula Bialski (Speaker)

    02.02.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  43. The logic of security, Public lecture

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    23.01.2007

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

  44. The order of spaces: authority, control and the possibilities of art) Public lecture in conjunction with the Fabrice Gygi exhibition

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    03.11.2005

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

  45. The organization and the city

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    16.07.2008

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

  46. The Organization and the City: A Dialogue on Berlin

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    01.07.200804.07.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  47. Theorie der Gouvernementalität oder Neo-Gramscianische Hegemonietheorie?

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    31.01.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  48. The Politics of Urban Cultural Interventions

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    07.07.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  49. The Post-Media Condition of Organization

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    23.05.201324.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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