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
- 2016
Unpacking Organization: Cybernetics, Logistics, Labour
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
28.06.2016 → 29.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The Business of Teaching - 2016
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
20.06.2016 → 24.06.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Re-thinking Relationality in the Sociotechnological Condition
Boris Traue (Speaker)
18.05.2016 → 19.05.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
In Praise of Workarounds
Lisa Conrad (Oral presentation)
05.05.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
BA Seminar: Aesthetics and Marketing - 2016
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2016 → 15.07.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
BA Seminar: Cultural Entrepreneurship - 2016
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2016 → 15.07.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
BA Seminar: Theories of Contemporary Society II
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2016 → 15.07.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Academic Space
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
25.02.2016 → 26.02.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
9th International Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference
Paula Bialski (Speaker)
29.01.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Transparency and Secrecy
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
26.01.2016 → 27.01.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Winding (and not Knowing) the Sociotechnical Mangle of Organization
Lisa Conrad (Oral presentation)
12.01.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung (Journal)
Boris Traue (Editor)
01.01.2016 → 01.06.2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- 2015
Projective aesthetics: art and urban transformation
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
09.12.2015 → 11.12.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Projective cities: Designing, organizing and living in urban spaces
Timon Beyes (Panel participant)
09.12.2015 → 11.12.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Towards heterochronies: the messy temporalities of contemporary art
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
09.12.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Organize
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
08.10.2015 → 10.10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Terms of Media II: Actions - 2015
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
08.10.2015 → 10.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Towards a European Program on Entrepreneurship, Humanities and Social Sciences
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
24.09.2015 → 25.09.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
meson press (Publisher)
Boris Traue (Editor)
01.08.2015 → 01.04.2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
Un/Stable Infrastructures
Sascha Simons (Panel participant)
08.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
31st EGOS Colloquium - EGOS 2015
Lisa Conrad (Organiser)
02.07.2015 → 04.07.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Digital Media and Organization
Timon Beyes (Panel participant)
02.07.2015 → 04.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Beltz Juventa Verlag (Publisher)
Boris Traue (Editor)
01.07.2015 → 01.06.2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › Research
Terms of Media I - 2015
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
17.06.2015 → 19.06.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
UN Konferenz "Know Your Privileges" - 2015
Lisa Conrad (Moderator)
12.06.2015 → 13.06.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Winding the Sociotechnical Mangle of Organization
Lisa Conrad (Oral presentation)
04.06.2015 → 05.06.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
"Gemein Sein": Der Sensus Communis der Medien
Sascha Simons (Panel participant)
28.05.2015 → 29.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Barcamp Gründerwerkstatt neudeli - 2015
Lisa Conrad (Organiser)
21.05.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Introduction DIGRA Conference 2015 'Diversity of Play'
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
14.05.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Fiction and Simulation: Theories, Methods, Practices
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
27.04.2015 → 30.04.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Doing space: Atmospheres of teaching
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
17.04.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
The Distributed Human: Work, Habit and Subjects after Digital Media - SoSe 2015
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
01.04.2015 → 15.07.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
25.03.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Methods of Media Studies
Timon Beyes (Speaker)
11.03.2015 → 13.03.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Performing Organization
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
27.01.2015 → 29.01.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Symposiumof the Digital Cultures Research Lab and the Institute for Design Research - 2015
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
27.01.2015 → 29.01.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Cultural Entrepreneurship Series - 2015
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Graduiertenkolleg »Lose Verbindungen« (External organisation)
Claus Pias (Member)
2015 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
meson press (Publisher)
Martina Leeker (Editor), Andreas Bernard (Editor), Armin Beverungen (Editor), Irina Kaldrack (Editor), Sascha Simons (Editor) & Florian Sprenger (Editor)
2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
Universität Konstanz
Claus Pias (Visiting researcher)
2015Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
- 2014
Cybernetics, Management, Organization: The case of St.Gallen
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
16.12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Projektmanagement in vernetzten Forschungsprojekten
Christian Heise (Lecturer)
02.12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Video, Affekt, Aktivismus: Authentizität und Zeugenschaft von Web-Video-Ereignissen
Sascha Simons (Panel participant)
13.11.2014 → 14.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › 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
spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures (Journal)
Clemens Apprich (Editor)
15.10.2014 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Transfer
The Invention of Creativity and the Aesthetics of Social Change - 2014
Timon Beyes (Organiser)
02.10.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Centre for Digital Cultures Lüneburg (Publisher)
Martina Leeker (Editor)
10.2014 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of unfinished anthology/collection › Research
Teaching Game Studies at DiGRA 2014
Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)
03.08.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
The Digital Games Research Association - DiGRA 2014
Paolo Ruffino (Speaker)
03.08.2014 → 06.08.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Affordances of the Aesthetic
Timon Beyes (Coauthor)
25.06.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research