Artistic Research, Embodiment & Materiality

This cluster investigates artistic practice as a mode of knowledge production, focusing on embodiment, materiality, and creative processes as forms through which ethical and cultural meaning becomes tangible.

 

​Project: 

1. Obsession. Anselm Kiefer – Artist Profiling; Art-Psychological Approaches to Artistic Space and Embodied Cognition in the Context of Materiality, Performativity, and Cultures of Memory

2. Artistic Practice as a Behavioural Pattern and its Physiology – Art-Theoretical and Epigenetic Approaches

3. Artistic Memory in Textile Art – Art-Psychological Processes of Creativity and Cultures of Memory (Magdalena Abakanowicz, Louise Bourgeois, Goshka Macuga)

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Space, Culture & Memory in Contexts of Crisis

This research area explores how societies shape and negotiate memory, particularly in relation to historical violence, trauma, and democratic representation, through spatial and cultural forms.

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Projects:​

1. Architecture and Art Psychology: Political Architecture and the Representation of Democracy

2. Ethics of Memory Spaces in the Arts – Cultural Responses to Crisis, Trauma, and Historical Violence (e.g. Holocaust)

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Technology, AI & Ethical Transformation

This cluster examines how digital technologies and artificial intelligence reshape responsibility, agency, and ethical reflection in increasingly complex socio-technical environments.

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Project: 

1. Ethics, Medical Ethics, AI, and the Aesthetics of Creativity – Coordinating an Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration

2. Digital Ethics and Artificial Intelligence as Drivers of Societal and Economic Transformation

3. Digital Medical Ethics: Navigating Responsibility, Progress, and Human Dignity

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Responsibility, Governance & Applied Ethics

Focusing on institutions and organizations, this area investigates how ethical principles are translated into decision-making, governance structures, and systems of responsibility.

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Projects:

1. Ethics Scoring – An Epistemic Framework for Analyzing and Transforming Organizational Responsibility

2. Ethical Leadership and Corporate Governance

3. Responsible Art Funding and Artist Support

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Environmental Ethics & Multispecies Justice

This research field addresses the ethical dimensions of human and non-human relations, exploring ecological responsibility and new frameworks of multispecies coexistence.

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Projects: 

1. ​Environmental Ethics and Multispecies Justice: Environmental and Animal Ethics