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. Conference Presentations
  2. Projective aesthetics: art and urban transformation

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    09.12.201511.12.2015

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  3. Rise and fall of the Silicon Valley

    Laura Hille (Speaker)

    07.07.2022

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  4. Smallness, economy and efficacy

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    13.01.2005

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

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker)

    10.04.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    25.06.200827.06.2008

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

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker)

    04.07.201306.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Teilhaben: theatrale Interventionen in die unternehmerische Stadt

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    29.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. 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

  10. The death of the stories we used to tell

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    10.05.200712.05.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. 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

  12. 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

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

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    01.07.200804.07.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. The Politics of Urban Cultural Interventions

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    07.07.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. The standards story of SAP: When infrastructure is happening

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker) & Hannah Mormann (Speaker)

    31.10.2001

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  16. The standards story of SAP: When infrastructure is happening

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker)

    06.10.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. To the streets, then!” The redistribution of affect through walking

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    11.07.201214.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  18. Transcontinental guidance and exploration of digital cultural heritage (DHX).

    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Speaker)

    03.09.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Upsetting participation? Modes of ordering art spaces

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    10.07.200812.07.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  20. Was kann die systemtheoretische Perspektive zum Verständnis von NPO beitragen?

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    25.05.200426.05.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  21. Wie Paul Baran einmal wild spekulierte und dabei das Internet erfand

    Martin Warnke (Speaker)

    06.10.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch