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
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Otto Mueller, Brücke-Museum Berlin, (2014) Hirmer Verlag, München, Christiane Remm (Hg.)
Severin, I. L., 28.03.2017Research output: other publications › Articles in scientific forums or blogs › Research
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Marcel Bois / Bernadette Reinhold (Hgg.): Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Architektur. Politik. Geschlecht. Neue Perspektiven auf Leben und Werk, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag 2019
Severin, I. L., 15.01.2021, In: sehepunkte - Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften . 21, 1/2021Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research
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Perspective as Practice. Renaissance Cultures of Optics, (About the development of optics and perspective between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries) (TECHNE 1) Dupré, Sven (ed.): Brepols, Turnhout 2019
Severin, I. L., 29.07.2020, onlineResearch output: other publications › Articles in scientific forums or blogs › Research
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Unzeitgemäße Techniken. Historische Narrative künstlerischer Verfahren, (Interdependenzen. Die Künste und ihre Techniken, 4), (Hg.) Bushart, Magdalena - Haug, Henrike - Stallschus, Stefanie: Köln, Böhlau 2019
Severin, I. L., 16.12.2019, onlineResearch output: other publications › Articles in scientific forums or blogs › Research
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Paul Graupe (1881–1953). Ein Berliner Kunsthändler zwischen Republik, Nationalsozialismus und Exil, (2016) Patrick Golenia/ Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier/ Isabelle le Masne de Chermont (Hg.) Vorwort, Bénédicte Savoy, Böhlau Verlag
Severin, I. L., 13.03.2019, onlineResearch output: other publications › Articles in scientific forums or blogs › Research
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Ein Medium namens McLuhan: 37 Befragungen eines Klassikers
Bexte, P. & Leeker, M., 2020, Lüneburg: meson press. 141 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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From Open Access to Open Science: The Path From Scientific Reality to Open Scientific Communication
Heise, C. & Pearce, J. M., 01.04.2020, In: SAGE Open. 10, 2, 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Politics of Reproduction
spheres Editorial Collective, Trott, B. (ed.), Beverungen, A. (ed.), Apprich, C. (ed.), Luchs, I. (ed.), Hille, L. (ed.) & Heinrichs, R. (ed.), 03.2020, Lüneburg: Centre for Digital Cultures Lüneburg. (spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures; vol. 2000, no. 6)Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research
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The performatization of space: Comments on the historicity of knowledge and technology in the construction of contemporary performance spaces
Leeker, M., Baumgärtel, S. A. & Corrêa, T., 24.09.2020, In: URDIMENTO-REVISTA DE ESTUDOS EM ARTES CENICAS. 2, 38, p. 1-27 27 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Politics of Reproduction
spheres Editorial Collective, Trott, B., Beverungen, A., Apprich, C., Hille, L. & Heinrichs, R., 03.2020, In: spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures. 2000, #6, p. 1-10 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research