Abschlusstagung der ersten Förderphase des Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, Fotos: Thomas Kretschel

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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Welcoming address Prof. Ursula M. Staudinger, Rector of TU Dresden / Board member of Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden

`The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden expresses a kind of broadly understood interdisciplinarity, which can be implemented particularly well at the TU Dresden as a full-curriculum university and which inspires me as Rector´.

Ingo Smit, Vorstandsvorsitzender The Schaufler Foundation

Welcoming address Ingo Smit, Chairman of THE SCHAUFLER FOUNDATION

`We are extremely pleased to initiate a new and innovative project together with TU Dresden. It represents our foundation's principle - promoting and combining science, research and art - in an exemplary way...’

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, a joint initiative of THE SCHAUFLER FOUNDATION and TUD Dresden University of Technology , 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 TUD. 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 KOLLEG@TU DRESDEN & SCHAUFLER RESIDENCY@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 2020-2024
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 TUD'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.

SECOND PHASE 2024-2027
Starting from the summer semester of 2024, the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden is entering its second funding phase (2024–2027) under the new guiding theme Data↔Worlds: Socio-technical and Cultural Syntheses of New Realities.