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
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  1. External workshops, courses, seminars
  2. Data Studio 1

    Lisa Conrad (Participant)

    11.07.201612.07.2016

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

  3. Digital Cultures MA Seminar - 2019

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2019

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

  4. „Don't forget: the archive!“ – Collecting Non-Archives for the Post-Media Condition - 2013

    Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)

    25.04.2013

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

  5. Dt.-fr. Kolloquium „Kulturelle Differenz unter den Bedingungen der Globalisierung"

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker)

    25.03.201026.03.2010

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

  6. Festarchiv: auf der Jagd nach Bräuchen und Events BA Seminar 2007

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    15.10.200701.02.2008

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

  7. Fluidisings: Aesthetics and Management

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.05.200730.06.2007

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

  8. Formen und Methoden des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens und Lernens BA Seminar 2003

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    15.10.200301.02.2004

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

  9. From Systems Engineering (SE) to Smart Infrastructures

    Irina Kaldrack (Organiser)

    25.06.2014

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

  10. Hochschule und unternehmerische Praxis 2008

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    10.04.200811.04.2008

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

  11. Humanities, Cultural Sciences and Management Education

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    08.11.201210.11.2012

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

  12. HyperKult XXI 2012

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    12.07.201214.07.2012

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

  13. IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference 2016

    Lisa Conrad (Participant)

    09.12.201610.12.2016

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

  14. Im Kreativitätsdispositiv

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    06.10.201607.10.2016

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

  15. Knowing Colour - 2018/19

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    15.10.201801.02.2019

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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. Oxford Handbook of Media, Technology and Organization Studies Writing Workshop

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    19.10.201720.10.2017

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

  25. Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies 2011

    Lisa Conrad (Participant)

    05.06.201111.06.2011

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

  26. Queer_Un_Konferenz "Women Know Your Limits"

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker)

    20.06.201421.06.2014

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

  27. Rethinking Management Education: A Colloquia Series on Humanities and Social Sciences at the Business University - 2014

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    20142016

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

  28. Rethinking Management Education: Theories, Practices, Interventions 2017

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201715.07.2017

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

  29. Rethinking Management Education? The Role of the Humanities

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    15.05.201416.05.2014

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

  30. Silicon Trolls. Net Cultures, Neo-Fascism and Technological Determinism

    Laura Hille (Organiser) & Daniela Wentz (Organiser)

    25.10.2017

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

  31. Sloterdijk’s Plural Spherology and its potential for Organization Studies - 2018

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    15.10.201701.02.2018

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

  32. Social work in practice and theory

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.200615.07.2013

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

  33. Soziale Medien - Neue Massen?

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    02.02.201204.02.2012

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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. Towards a European Program on Entrepreneurship, Humanities and Social Sciences

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    24.09.201525.09.2015

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

  46. UN Konferenz "Know Your Privileges" - 2015

    Lisa Conrad (Moderator)

    12.06.201513.06.2015

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

  47. Unpacking Organization: Cybernetics, Logistics, Labour

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    28.06.201629.06.2016

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

  48. Urban Atmospheres BA Seminar - 2018

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201815.07.2018

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

  49. Was sind digitale Kulturen? MA Seminar

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    01.04.201715.07.2017

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

  50. Workshop Logistics of Soft Control - 2013

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    20.06.201321.06.2013

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

  51. Workshop on the Mediation of Business - 2013

    Timon Beyes (Organiser) & Helge Peters (Participant)

    23.05.201324.05.2013

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

  52. Workshop: Organizing Digital Cultures: Histories, Ethnographies, Materialities

    Lisa Conrad (Organiser), Timon Beyes (Organiser) & Clemens Apprich (Organiser)

    07.06.201808.06.2018

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

  53. Guest lectures
  54. Affordances of the Aesthetic

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    25.06.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  55. After Globalization

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    15.10.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  56. Alan Sekula - Cultural Capital, Human Capital

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    13.01.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  57. Algerien und das revolutionäre Subjekt. Pierre Bourdieu und Frantz Fanon

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    14.07.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  58. An aesthetics of displacement. On Thomas Pynchon’s symptomatology of enterprise

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    05.07.200707.07.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  59. Arbeit, Managementphilosophie, Kunst

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    16.01.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  60. Art, aesthetics and organization: a research seminar

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    12.02.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  61. Art, Ecology and Sustainable Development. A Triangle to be Articulated (mit Beatrice von Bismarck)

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    20.01.2000

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  62. Art market research. Some non-obvious results

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    25.11.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  63. 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

  64. Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten für angehende Kunstkritiker/innen

    Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)

    28.11.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  65. 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

  66. Bourdieus Fotografie zu den Ökonomien des Elends

    Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)

    22.06.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    06.06.200408.06.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    19.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  69. Computersimulation als Erkenntnismethode

    Martin Warnke (Lecturer)

    15.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  70. Computersimulation als Erkenntnismethode

    Martin Warnke (Speaker)

    30.01.201431.01.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    10.11.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  72. Critical Socio-Political-Organization in Digital Cultures

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    11.01.201812.01.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  73. 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

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

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    16.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    28.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    07.04.2000

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    04.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  78. Den Tod des Autors begraben

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    27.11.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  79. Der Bologna-Prozess aus der Perspektive der Cultural Theory

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    03.02.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  80. Der Dunkle Transhumanismus

    Laura Hille (Speaker)

    25.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  81. Die Internet-Theoretikerin Dr. Mercedes Bunz "Im Gespräch"

    Mercedes Bunz (Speaker)

    07.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  82. Die Kulturwissenschaften im Bildungssystem der Zukunft

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    19.06.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  83. Die Kulturwissenschaften im Bildungssystem der Zukunft

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    05.07.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  84. Die Kunst auf dem Weg in die blaue Ökonomie

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    15.06.2002

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  85. Die Kunst, der Markt und die Idee des kollektiven Intellektuellen

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    02.09.2000

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  86. Die Kunst in der Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit und die ‚Krise der Kunstkritik’

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    24.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  87. Die Symbolgrafik als dritter Weg

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    13.11.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  88. Die Tradition der Sozialfotografie und die Darstellung der Ökonomie des Elends bei Bourdieu

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    25.08.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  89. Die Tradition der Sozialfotografie und die Darstellung der Ökonomie des Elends bei Bourdieu

    Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)

    25.08.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  90. Die Übersetzung von Bildern. Pierre Bourdieu als Beispiel

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    30.01.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  91. Disneyland in Europa. Umweltkommunikation auf der EXPO 2000

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    15.12.2000

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  92. Doing Social Research with Artists

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    07.1996

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  93. Doing Social Research with Artists (mit Vera Kockot)

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    23.08.1996

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  94. Doing space: Atmospheres of teaching

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    17.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  95. Ende des ästhetischen Wohlfahrtsstaates?

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    31.05.1996

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  96. Eurozentrismus und künstlerische Moderne?

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    29.01.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  97. Fiction and Simulation: Theories, Methods, Practices

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    27.04.201530.04.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  98. Flat, intense and shiny: The colour chart’s aesthetics of organizing

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    08.03.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

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

    Niklas Schrape (Lecturer)

    16.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  100. Gamification

    Mathias Fuchs (Lecturer)

    08.03.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer