The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden

With the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, TUD Dresden University of Technology and THE SCHAUFLER FOUNDATION have established a lively forum for a forward-looking dialogue between science, art and society. In this project, young researchers and artists come together across disciplinary boundaries to question current technologies, their origins, and their impacts on our modern world.

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Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden I Phase 2: 2024-2027

In the second phase, the central theme of data↔worlds takes centre stage. By this we mean technical and cultural mediations of reality through data, which significantly characterise society and living environments. Data↔Worlds aims to research society and culture as synthetic realities.

Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden I Phase 1: 2020-2024

The first project phase of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden dealt with the question of how artificial intelligence changes cultural and social structures and, on the other hand, is itself created and changed by them.

Partners of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden

Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, initiated by TU Dresden and THE SCHAUFLER FOUNDATION, is a joint project which brings together different university institutes and facilities - for example from the University's Cluster of Excellence - as well as numerous external institutions from the fields of science and art.

The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden

In the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, initiated jointly by THE SCHAUFLER FOUNDATION and TU Dresden, scientists and artists explore the interactions between technology, art, science and entrepreneurship. The Lab consists of the two pillars Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden and Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden. The common object of investigation is the interplay between technical innovation and the transformation of society and culture. The perspectives on this are humanities and social sciences as well as artistic.

The Lab is the platform and the place for transdisciplinary research cooperation at TU Dresden. The challenges of new technologies and social issues of the future are negotiated in an exchange of artistic and scientific practice in the Kolleg and in the residency .

At the same time, the comprehensible discussion of scientific topics in exchange with a broad public is a central concern of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden. Experimental and participatory event formats reflect our expanded understanding of transfer and mediation.

STRUCTURE

SCHAUFLER LAB@TU DRESDEN = GRADUATE COLLEGE & ARTIST RESIDENCY
The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden consists of the Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden and the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden. It brings (young) scientists together with international artists. All participants are committed to an explicitly transdisciplinary research methodology at the interface of science and art.

The Lab is located within the TUD as a scientific institution at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (GSW) and the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections .

The board of the Lab consists of

the spokespersons:
Moritz Ingwersen (Spokesperson Schaufler Kolleg, Junior Professorship in North American Literature with a Focus on Future Studies),
Orit Halpern (Deputy Spokesperson Schaufler Kolleg, Chair of Digital Cultures),
Kirsten Vincenz (Spokesperson Schaufler Residency, Director of the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections)
Birte Platow, Lutz Hagen, Kerstin Schankweiler, Katharina Kaesling, Sabine-Müller-Mall (main supervisors of the doctoral students)
Gwendolin Kremer (representative of the residency)
Eylül Özgün Iscen (Postdoc)
Anke Woschech (Coordinator)
Alexandra Lorch (representative of the doctoral students)

The Lab team and The Schaufler Foundation are supported by an advisory board that reviews the projects and concepts of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden.
Another advisory body is the selection committee of the residency.

TIME FRAME OF THE PROJECT
The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden is designed for a total of nine years with three consecutive funding phases. Each funding phase is dedicated to a key topic.

FIRST PROJECT PHASE 2020-2024
The first project phase deals with the topic of "Artificial intelligence (AI) as a factor and consequence of social and cultural change". The corresponding partners in the first phase are the Clusters of Excellence at TU Dresden. In the first funding phase, there are collaborations with the Center for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CETI), the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Dresden/Leipzig (ScaDS.AI) and the Center for Explainable and Efficient AI Technologies (CEE AI) - the joint AI research center of TU Dresden and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft - and others.

SECOND PROJECT PHASE 2024-2027
In the summer semester of 2024, the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden started its second funding phase (2024-2027) on the new guiding theme of Data↔Worlds. Socio-technical and cultural syntheses of new realities.