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
- Conference Presentations
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Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
08.10.2015 → 10.10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Paper, pegboard, software: Elements of a media theory of organization
Lisa Conrad (presenter) & Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
06.07.2017 → 08.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Processed Food on the Urban Data Highway. Food Delivery Services as In_visible Infrastructure in the Production of Urbanity
Maja-Lee Voigt (Speaker), Cesrin Schneider (Speaker), Charlotte Niewerth (Speaker) & Juliane Bötel (Speaker)
03.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Projective aesthetics: art and urban transformation
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
09.12.2015 → 11.12.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Rise and fall of the Silicon Valley
Laura Hille (Speaker)
07.07.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Smallness, economy and efficacy
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
13.01.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Squirreling myself away from the world: Silence and fieldnotes
Lisa Conrad (Speaker)
10.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Strangely familiar. The spatial uncanny and the study of organizational space
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
25.06.2008 → 27.06.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Technologies - Media - Hybrids / Toronto - Berlin - Paris
Lisa Conrad (Speaker)
04.07.2013 → 06.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Teilhaben: theatrale Interventionen in die unternehmerische Stadt
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
29.03.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The becoming-spatial of organization theory: Unfolding the spatial turn in organization studies
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
01.07.2008 → 04.07.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The death of the stories we used to tell
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
10.05.2007 → 12.05.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The distribution of the insensible: Organizational aesthetics in the age of digital reproduction
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
06.07.2017 → 08.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The everyday production of space: Snapshots from spatial configurations in Chinese bureaucracy
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
24.11.2009 → 26.11.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Organization and the City: A Dialogue on Berlin
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
01.07.2008 → 04.07.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Politics of Urban Cultural Interventions
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
07.07.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The standards story of SAP: When infrastructure is happening
Lisa Conrad (Speaker) & Hannah Mormann (Speaker)
31.10.2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The standards story of SAP: When infrastructure is happening
Lisa Conrad (Speaker)
06.10.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
To the streets, then!” The redistribution of affect through walking
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
11.07.2012 → 14.07.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Transcontinental guidance and exploration of digital cultural heritage (DHX).
Ingrid Leonie Severin (Speaker)
03.09.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research