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
- Visiting an external academic institution
Western Sydney University
Armin Beverungen (Visiting researcher)
01.02.2017 → 31.03.2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
- Academic Consultant
Jury Wettbewerb VIDA LIFE 15: Kunstwettbewerb
Andreas Broeckmann (Reviewer)
25.09.2013 → 28.09.2013Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
- Peer review of publicationen
Informatik-Spektrum (Journal)
Martin Warnke (Reviewer)
01.06.2013 → 30.06.2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Peer review of publicationen › Research
- Conference Presentations
403 Access Forbidden or: A Backend of One’s Own. Hacking Spaces Toward a Cyber_Feminist_City
Maja-Lee Voigt (Speaker)
17.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Academic Space
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
25.02.2016 → 26.02.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
A different Lefebvre: the everyday production of organizational space
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
11.07.2011 → 13.07.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
After the Tears: Victimhood and Subjectivity in the Melodramatic Mode
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
11.11.2011 → 12.11.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Alternative Mouse – Alternative User? Towards a History of Assistive Media
Jan Müggenburg (Speaker)
19.09.2018 → 22.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Amazon's Urban Speculation
Ilia Antenucci (Speaker), Maja-Lee Voigt (Speaker) & Armin Beverungen (Speaker)
07.07.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Amazon’s Urban Speculations
Ilia Antenucci (Speaker), Maja-Lee Voigt (Speaker) & Armin Beverungen (Speaker)
16.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ambiguity machine. The art and politics of disorganizing urban space
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
02.07.2009 → 04.07.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
An den Rändern? Atmosphären in der Netzkultur
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
22.06.2012 → 23.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
An opening of management theory? Some consequences of Niklas Luhmann's notion of contingency for management thinking
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
23.05.2003 → 25.05.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Are we all urbanists now? Organization Theory's urban problematic
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
30.06.2010 → 03.07.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
A theatre of capitalism. René Pollesch and the drama of enterprise discourse
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
04.07.2005 → 06.07.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Balancing Acts
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
05.07.2007 → 07.07.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Beobachter beobachten: Implikationen der Kybernetik zweiter Ordnung für die Managementtheorie
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
14.11.2003 → 16.11.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Beyond Gamification: From Problem-solving to Problem-making
Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)
10.10.2013 → 12.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Crazy, Classified City Life - Hackfeminist Future-Making Practices between Dystopia and Utopia, Predictability and Possibility
Maja-Lee Voigt (Speaker)
15.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Crossing boundaries
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
25.06.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
CTRL + F_eminist futures: Hacking algorithmic architectures of cities to come
Maja-Lee Voigt (Speaker)
07.07.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Die Bit-Tiefe der Dekaden
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
06.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Don't Hate the Business! Become the Business!
Tatiana Bazzichelli (Speaker) & Geoff Cox (Speaker)
14.09.2011 → 21.09.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: New transparency, new opacity
Lisa Conrad (Speaker)
27.07.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Extension extended. A genealogy of nerves and cables
Florian Sprenger (Speaker)
26.10.2011 → 28.10.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Facing the camp: Refugee settlements and the spatial politics of organizing
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
02.04.2014 → 05.04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ghosting the City – Zooming in on Otherwise Publics in Virtual Worlds
Cesrin Schneider (Speaker), Maja-Lee Voigt (Speaker), Charlotte Niewerth (Speaker) & Juliane Bötel (Speaker)
03.06.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ghosts of the past, chimeras of the future: Snapshots from the Berlin State Library
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
08.07.2011 → 09.07.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Improbable Spaces. Signs of the future city in a university project
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
01.07.2007 → 04.07.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Introduction DIGRA Conference 2015 'Diversity of Play'
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
14.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kafka’s bestiary of organizing
Robert D. Holt (Coauthor) & Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
06.07.2017 → 08.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kafka’s bestiary of organizing
Robert D. Holt (Coauthor) & Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
10.11.2016 → 12.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kunst und Öffentlichkeit
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
03.06.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kybernetische Biopolitik
Laura Hille (Speaker)
04.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Lives of the secret: Rimini Protokoll’s Top Secret International (State 1)
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
08.06.2017 → 11.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Mediating Atmospheres: Apprehending the Intersections of Data, Memory and Space
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
26.11.2012 → 28.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Öffentlichkeit und Strategie
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
01.06.2012 → 02.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Organize
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