Facing the future with art and science

The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden

In the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, a joint initiative of THE SCHAUFLER FOUNDATION and TU Dresden, researchers and artists address 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 joint subject matter of the analysis is the interaction between technical innovation and the changing society and culture. The researchers apply perspectives from the humanities and social sciences as well as from the arts.

The Lab is the platform and the location for transdisciplinary research cooperations at TU Dresden. The KOLLEG and the RESIDENCY serve to explore the challenges of new technologies and the future of our society in an exchange between artistic and scientific practice.

At the same time, the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden is committed to the transparent discussion of scientific topics in exchange with a broad public. The planned experimental formats of participation reflect our enhanced understanding of transfer and communication.

SCHAUFLER LAB@TU DRESDEN = SCHAUFLER KOLLE@TU DRESDEN & SCHAUFLER RESIDENCY@TU DRESDEN

SCHAUFLER RESIDENCY@TU DRESDENSCHAUFLER KOLLE@TU DRESDEN

The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden consists of the Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden and the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden. It brings together (early-career) researchers and international artists. Both the fellows and the artists are committed to an explicitly transdisciplinary research methodology at the interface between science and art.

TIMELINE

The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden will run for a total of nine years, with three successive funding periods. Each funding period is dedicated to a specific main research topic.

FIRST PROJECT PHASE 2020-2023

The first project phase explores the topic  'Artificial intelligence (AI) as factor and consequence of societal and cultural change'.

In the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, researchers and scholarship holders from various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences cooperate with artists as well as with researchers from the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Partner institutions are TU Dresden's Clusters of Excellence. During the first funding phase, there is a cooperation with the Center for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CETI), and the ScaDS.AI (Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence) Dresden/Leipzig, as well as additional institutions.