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
- External workshops, courses, seminars
Data & Drama - 2019
Lisa Conrad (Speaker), Randi Heinrichs (Speaker) & Boukje Cnossen (Speaker)
10.04.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Data Studio 1
Lisa Conrad (Participant)
11.07.2016 → 12.07.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Digital Cultures MA Seminar - 2019
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2017 → 01.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
„Don't forget: the archive!“ – Collecting Non-Archives for the Post-Media Condition - 2013
Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)
25.04.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Dt.-fr. Kolloquium „Kulturelle Differenz unter den Bedingungen der Globalisierung"
Lisa Conrad (Speaker)
25.03.2010 → 26.03.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Festarchiv: auf der Jagd nach Bräuchen und Events BA Seminar 2007
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2007 → 01.02.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Fluidisings: Aesthetics and Management
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.05.2007 → 30.06.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Formen und Methoden des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens und Lernens BA Seminar 2003
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
15.10.2003 → 01.02.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
From Systems Engineering (SE) to Smart Infrastructures
Irina Kaldrack (Organiser)
25.06.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Hochschule und unternehmerische Praxis 2008
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
10.04.2008 → 11.04.2008Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Humanities, Cultural Sciences and Management Education
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
08.11.2012 → 10.11.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
HyperKult XXI 2012
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
12.07.2012 → 14.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference 2016
Lisa Conrad (Participant)
09.12.2016 → 10.12.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Im Kreativitätsdispositiv
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
06.10.2016 → 07.10.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Knowing Colour - 2018/19
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2018 → 01.02.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Lecture of Praeter Naturam: Beyond Nature
Sacha Kagan (Organiser)
03.06.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Lower Saxony — Scotland Joint Forum 2020
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
24.11.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
MA Seminar: The Politics of Organization - WiSe 2014/2015
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2014 → 01.02.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
MA Seminar "Whither theatre? The role and organization of culture in the 21st century" 2007
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2007 → 15.07.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
New Forms of Organizing Culture MA Seminar - 2017/18
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
15.10.2017 → 01.02.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education