Beschreibung
“Science Matters: Scientific and Artistic Research” is an ongoing series of cross-disciplinary courses that brings together students at various levels (bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral) with international peers from the life sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. The courses are developed in collaboration with Sarah Hager (Lead, ITU Linz), Jonathan Weitzmann (Epigenetics and Cell Fate Centre, Paris Cité), and Aimée Kohn (CDS, Angewandte) and currently pursue two objectives: - Exploring mapping and its potential as Artistic Reseach method that can bridge disciplines - Discussing the potential of multilingualism in research processes The course uses artistic research (ATR) as a bridge-building method between disciplines. ATR is a rapidly developing field of research that examines materials, situations, and forms in both experimental and practical ways. Students form a simulated research group and use ATR methods to: - create “knowledge maps” of their own subfields (e.g., genetics, epigenetics, European ethnography) - collaboratively develop speculative interdisciplinary maps of future knowledge - engage with guided prompts, mutual teaching, and the joint exploration of fundamental assumptions—epistemic, axiological, and ontological in nature. In this course, mapping serves both as a method for generating knowledge and as a form of knowledge representation.