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
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
Upsetting participation? Modes of ordering art spaces
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
10.07.2008 → 12.07.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Was kann die systemtheoretische Perspektive zum Verständnis von NPO beitragen?
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
25.05.2004 → 26.05.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Wie Paul Baran einmal wild spekulierte und dabei das Internet erfand
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
06.10.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Work = work ≠ work: In defence of play
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
05.05.2010 → 07.05.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 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
- Academic Consultant
Jury Wettbewerb VIDA LIFE 15: Kunstwettbewerb
Andreas Broeckmann (Reviewer)
25.09.2013 → 28.09.2013Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Transfer
- Visiting an external academic institution
Bauhaus University of Weimar
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
10.2008 → 04.2009Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
Center for Advanced Internet Studies GmbH
Armin Beverungen (Visiting researcher)
01.03.2019 → 15.10.2019Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
Freie Universität Berlin
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
10.2016 → 04.2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
Institute for Advanced Study Berlin e.V.
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
2009 → 2010Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
Princeton University
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
Universität Konstanz
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
2015Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
Université Paris-Dauphine
Timon Beyes (Visiting lecturer)
2018Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
2007Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
Western Sydney University
Armin Beverungen (Visiting researcher)
01.02.2017 → 31.03.2017Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
- Learned societies and special interest organisations
Akteurinnen für urbanen Ungehorsam (External organisation)
Maja-Lee Voigt (Chair), Cesrin Schneider (Chair), Charlotte Niewerth (Chair) & Juliane Bötel (Chair)
2018 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Die Junge Akademie (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2001 → 2006Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer
european association for the study of science and technology (easst) (External organisation)
Maja-Lee Voigt (Member)
2022 → 2023Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
European Group of Organizational Studies (External organisation)
Timon Beyes (Member)
2007 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft e.V. (External organisation)
Laura Hille (Member)
01.01.2019Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
International Federation for Information Processing (ifip) (External organisation)
Martin Warnke (Chair)
2009 → 01.2013Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
- Academic networks or partnerships
Bauhaus University of Weimar (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
01.2005 → 12.2013Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Graduiertenkolleg »Lose Verbindungen« (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
- Academic councils, panels and committees
Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung (ARL) (External organisation)
Maja-Lee Voigt (Member)
2023 → 2027Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Bauhaus University of Weimar (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2004 → 2011Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
- Guest lectures
Affordances of the Aesthetic
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
25.06.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
After Globalization
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
15.10.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Alan Sekula - Cultural Capital, Human Capital
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
13.01.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Algerien und das revolutionäre Subjekt. Pierre Bourdieu und Frantz Fanon
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
14.07.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
An aesthetics of displacement. On Thomas Pynchon’s symptomatology of enterprise
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
05.07.2007 → 07.07.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Arbeit, Managementphilosophie, Kunst
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
16.01.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Art, aesthetics and organization: a research seminar
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
12.02.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Art, Ecology and Sustainable Development. A Triangle to be Articulated (mit Beatrice von Bismarck)
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
20.01.2000Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Art market research. Some non-obvious results
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
25.11.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Aufstieg und Niedergang der öffentlichen Sphäre. Die Theorie von Jürgen Habermas und ihre Kritik
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
04.03.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten für angehende Kunstkritiker/innen
Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)
28.11.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
BBC Fusion Summit: Playful interfaces for playful human beings: the future of game interfaces
Paolo Ruffino (Lecturer)
28.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Bourdieus Fotografie zu den Ökonomien des Elends
Ulf Wuggenig (Lecturer)
22.06.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
City of enterprise, city as prey? On urban entrepreneurial spaces
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
06.06.2004 → 08.06.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Colour is as colour does: Green and social ordering
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
19.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Computersimulation als Erkenntnismethode
Martin Warnke (Lecturer)
15.05.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Computersimulation als Erkenntnismethode
Martin Warnke (Speaker)
30.01.2014 → 31.01.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Creating Effects. Creativity and the New Spirit of Capitalism
Ulf Wuggenig (Speaker)
10.11.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research