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
  1. Work = work ≠ work: In defence of play

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    05.05.201007.05.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Workshop "Theoretische und empirische Grundlagen einer soziologischen Digitalisierungsforschung" - TU Berlin

    Lisa Conrad (Lecturer)

    18.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Workshop on International engagement and research funding

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    06.05.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  6. Workshop „Meta-Image Day 2012”

    Jens-Martin Loebel (Speaker)

    30.05.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. 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

  8. Workshop Humanities and Social Sciences in Management Education: Writing, Researching, Teaching

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    05.06.201307.06.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Work and Organization in the Digital Age

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    18.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  10. Winding the Sociotechnical Mangle of Organization

    Lisa Conrad (Oral presentation)

    04.06.201505.06.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  11. Winding (and not Knowing) the Sociotechnical Mangle of Organization

    Lisa Conrad (Oral presentation)

    12.01.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Martin Warnke (Speaker)

    02.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Martin Warnke (Speaker)

    06.10.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  14. Wie kommt das Neue in die Welt?

    Martin Warnke (Lecturer)

    16.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  15. Wiederkehr der Utopie?

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    08.01.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  16. Who's afraid of public spaces? Entrepreneurship and politics

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    21.05.200524.05.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  17. What’s next? Kunst nach der Krise (Art after the crisis)

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    14.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  18. What makes sense and what can be sensed: reconsidering the question of organization

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    27.05.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  19. What kind of management for nonprofit-organizations?, Invited lecture

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    26.09.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  20. Western Sydney University

    Armin Beverungen (Visiting researcher)

    01.02.201731.03.2017

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  21. Wer entscheidet über den öffentlichen Raum?

    Timon Beyes (Panel participant)

    08.11.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  22. Welt spielen. SimEarth als Grenzfall zwischen wissenschaftlicher Simulation und Computerspiel

    Niklas Schrape (Speaker)

    05.10.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  23. Was weiss die (Wirtschafts-)Uni von der Praxis?

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    20.11.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  24. 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

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

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    25.05.200426.05.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  26. Was ist Erfolg? Kriterien und Bewertungsmassstäbe für internationale Stiftungsprojekte

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    27.09.201028.09.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  27. Vortrag "Four Scenarios for Extended and Encapsulated Bodies"

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    19.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  28. Visual Archives in the Digitale Age

    Martin Warnke (Speaker)

    15.06.2011

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  29. Video, Affekt, Aktivismus: Authentizität und Zeugenschaft von Web-Video-Ereignissen

    Sascha Simons (Panel participant)

    13.11.201414.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  30. Urban Management

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    21.06.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  31. Urban Heterotopia: Zoning Digital Space

    Clemens Apprich (Speaker)

    12.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  32. 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

  33. Upsetting participation? Modes of ordering art spaces

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    10.07.200812.07.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  34. Un/Stable Infrastructures

    Sascha Simons (Panel participant)

    08.07.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. University of Minnesota Press (Publisher)

    Timon Beyes (Editorial Board), Wendy Chun (Editorial Board), Götz Bachmann (Editorial Board) & Mercedes-Sabine Bunz (Editorial Board)

    2018 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  38. University of Minnesota Press (Publisher)

    Timon Beyes (Editor)

    2018 → …

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  39. University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz

    Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)

    2007

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  40. Université Paris-Dauphine

    Timon Beyes (Visiting lecturer)

    2018

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  41. Universität Konstanz

    Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)

    2015

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  42. Umweltkommunikation im Themenpark der EXPO 2000 (mit Christoph Behnke)

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    18.05.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  43. Übersetzungen der Bilder. Am Beispiel von Texten Pierre Bourdieus

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    22.06.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  44. Überall Theater - auf dem Wege in die Inszenierungsgesellschaft?

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    26.05.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  45. Transparency and Secrecy

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    26.01.201627.01.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  46. Transmediale - 2013

    Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)

    02.02.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  47. Transformationen des Kunstfeldes

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    26.11.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Ingrid Leonie Severin (Speaker)

    03.09.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  49. Towards organizational geographies of resisting: Refugee camps as (un)safe havens

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    22.05.201424.05.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  50. Towards heterochronies: the messy temporalities of contemporary art

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    09.12.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  51. Towards a Research Program in Design, Inovation and Aesthetics

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    27.09.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  52. 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

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

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    11.07.201214.07.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  54. The work of disconnection

    Timon Beyes (Keynote Speaker)

    21.06.201822.06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  55. The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside

    Mercedes Bunz (Speaker)

    21.06.201323.06.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  56. The West and the Rest. Nicht-westliche Kunst im Feld der internationalen zeitgenössischen Kunst

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    27.11.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  57. The Terms of Media II: Actions - 2015

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    08.10.201510.10.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker) & Hannah Mormann (Speaker)

    31.10.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker)

    06.10.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  60. The secret in Digital Culture

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    06.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  61. The Sap of Organizational Life

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker)

    05.07.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  62. The Rise and Fall of 'Measurement'

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    04.12.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  63. The Production of Value – a Sociological Perspective

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    26.01.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  64. The Post-Media Condition of Organization

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    23.05.201324.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  65. The Post-Media Condition of Organization

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    23.05.201324.05.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  66. The Politics of Urban Cultural Interventions

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    07.07.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  67. Theorie der Gouvernementalität oder Neo-Gramscianische Hegemonietheorie?

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    31.01.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    01.07.200804.07.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  69. The organization and the city

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    16.07.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  70. The order of spaces: authority, control and the possibilities of art) Public lecture in conjunction with the Fabrice Gygi exhibition

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    03.11.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  71. The logic of security, Public lecture

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    23.01.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  72. The Invisible Man in the Digital Age: From Anonymity to Invisibility, A right to remain Unknown

    Paula Bialski (Speaker)

    02.02.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  73. 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

  74. The impossible house of art. Aesthetics and politics of organizing urban space

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    18.07.200720.07.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  75. The ignorant educators: Teaching “Cities and Creativity”

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    08.11.201210.11.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  76. The Future of the Ordinary City

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    31.10.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  77. 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

  78. The Future of Critical Art Institutions. The 'Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg'

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    12.10.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  79. 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

  80. 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

  81. 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

  82. The Digital Games Research Association - DiGRA 2014

    Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)

    03.08.201406.08.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  83. The design of urban spaces between administration and creativity, Invited lecture

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    17.10.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  84. The death of the stories we used to tell

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    10.05.200712.05.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  85. The Dealer as a Genius. Creative Industry Approaches to Art History

    Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)

    01.09.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  86. The city and the grassroots

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    05.05.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  87. The business university and the future city

    Timon Beyes (Speaker)

    29.06.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  88. 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

  89. 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

  90. 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

  91. 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

  92. Terra Critica: Re-visioning the Critical Task of the Humanities in a Globalized World

    Mercedes Bunz (Speaker)

    07.12.2012 → …

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  93. Terms of Media I - 2015

    Timon Beyes (Organiser)

    17.06.201519.06.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  94. Teilnahme an Experten-Arbeitstreffen

    Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)

    06.11.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  95. Teilhaben: theatrale Interventionen in die unternehmerische Stadt

    Timon Beyes (Coauthor)

    29.03.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Lisa Conrad (Speaker)

    04.07.201306.07.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  97. 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

  98. Tausend Ökologien

    Mercedes Bunz (Organiser)

    04.06.201305.06.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  99. Table Talks Künstlerische Forschung des Labors Theaterforschung - UDK 2013

    Ulf Wuggenig (Participant)

    19.04.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

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