Research projects in focus
Under this heading we regularly present current research projects of our School. In the archive you will find all research projects presented so far in chronological order.
To view our more recent presentations of research projects, please refer to the German website.
Table of contents
- 2019
- 2018
- kultura.digital – New web portal connects contemporary art in the German-Czech border region
- Text work seen in its entirety
- DEAR HUMANS, ... ART SCIENCE LAB I
- Summer, sun, vacation: I am writing a postcard.
- Migration and Democracy - How does migration affect political systems and developments?
- TU Dresden partner in the construction of a Big Data Time Machine
2019
'Vegetal Poetics' - a success story of the Open Topic Postdoc programme
June 2019
The fact that the first international conference (6-8 June 2019) of the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network (LCPSN) will take place in Dresden is in some respects only logical. Botanical and forest botanical research in Dresden and Tharandt has a long tradition not only at Technische Universität Dresden but also in numerous botanical societies. What is perhaps more surprising is that this is a literary and cultural science event. Interdisciplinarity is a decisive factor in this field: plant research in literature and cultural studies is dedicated to 'green' life not only as a motif and subject of historical and current (literary) discourses. more
Best Manager Presentation Award based on the Dresden model presented for the third time
January 2019
In 2018, Timotheus Höttges (Telekom) succeeds in giving the most convincing manager presentation at the company's shareholders' meeting. This is the result of a study at TU Dresden based on the Dresden model for the analysis of management communication (DMAMK), which analyses speeches by CEOs of listed companies and family businesses with regard to comprehensibility, rhetorical skills, their correspondence with the corporate identity of the company and the staging of the presentation.
Under the direction of Dr. Evelyn Koch from the Institute of German Studies at TU Dresden, students of the Management Communication seminar analyse company presentations. Dr. Evelyn Koch, responsible for the thematic focus of rhetorical design, is supported by Prof. Alexander Lasch (Corporate Communications) and Dr. Regina Bergmann (Comprehensibility). more
2018
kultura.digital – New web portal connects contemporary art in the German-Czech border region
December 2018 From the museum to the project space, from the studio to the public space: Contemporary art offers exist in many different ways - you just have to find them. Whether a small gallery or graffiti art in hidden places, potentially interested visitors often lack information about where these experiences await them. It is contemporary art that identifies and negotiates socially relevant themes. In order to convey the power of the artistic impulse into the everyday world of people, it is important to facilitate easy access. Places and events of contemporary art must become visible, approachable, and accessible for everyone. The website kultura.digital facilitates the uncomplicated experience of the diverse contemporary art in the German-Czech border region.
"We connect the locations of art with people - across borders and languages," explains project manager Prof. Hans Vorländer. The daily updated portal "kultura.digital" offers a tool that has not existed before. Using the modulator, users can prepare individual tours and either save them or immediately go on a journey. All content is available free of charge in German, Czech and English. more
Text work seen in its entirety
November 2018 Scholars of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the library SLUB Dresden, and other cooperation partners are developing the SLUB TextLab. As in a Makerspace, the TextLab allows to experiment with different analog and digital properties of the (text) material: How are own texts written in the three-part writing process structure/raw text/correction? How are text sources edited in order to annotate them digitally and to enrich them with further information? Which digital methods are suitable for their analysis, and how can text-based research results be visualised? more
DEAR HUMANS, ... ART SCIENCE LAB I
October 2018
Issues of digitisation, artificial intelligence, and their effects on different areas of life are more and more on the agenda not only in different scientific areas, but also discussed in society.
It is at the interface between science and society that the arts come into play: In a new long-term project, the Office for Academic Heritage of TU Dresden brings together artists and scientists. Under the heading DEAR HUMANS, ..., Institutes and Research Groups of TU Dresden will develop and pursue joint research questions over a period of two years. more
Summer, sun, vacation: I am writing a postcard.
August 2018
We all have probably got and written one. Until a few years ago, vacation postcards were a must when travelling. They illustrated what holidays one was able to enjoy and afford. But travellers also used them to show that they were thinking of their beloved ones at home. The project 'Text type developments between standardisation and variation: The example of the postcard. Text and corpus linguistic analyses on the pattern of private correspondence and everyday writing' explores how the idea of vacation has changed in recent decades.
"Our research project is a cooperation between the University of Zurich and Technische Universität Dresden", explains Josephine Obert, PhD student with Prof. Joachim Scharloth. "It is run in collaboration with Dr. Noah Bubenhofer from the Institute of Computational Linguistics and Prof. Dr. Heiko Hausendorf, Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Zurich, and Prof. Dr. Joachim Scharloth, Chair of Applied Linguistics at TU Dresden." more
Migration and Democracy - How does migration affect political systems and developments?
June 2018 MIDEM - the Mercator Forum for Migration and Democracy - is a research center of Technische Universität Dresden in cooperation with Universität Duisburg-Essen, funded by Stiftung Mercator. The Mercator Forum for Migration and Democracy (MIDEM) examines how migration influences democratic policies, institutions, and cultures and how, at the same time, it is influenced by these. It examines forms, instruments, and processes of the political management of migration in democratic societies - both in individual countries and in a comparative perspective on Europe. more
TU Dresden partner in the construction of a Big Data Time Machine
February 2018 What would the world look like if we could access documents from the past just as easily as we can access data from the present? Could we use it to make better forecasts for the future? Would it be possible to shape climate change and development more consciously on the basis of comprehensively documented records? Can historical 4D simulations improve our knowledge of European history? Which innovative business models promote tourism, transport, and planning?
The FET flagship project Time Machine, of which TU Dresden is a founding member, investigates these questions. Dr. Sander Münster and Stephan Schwartzkopff from the Media Center of TU Dresden will organise the development of the German support community. more