Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1006: Art and Technology. Material an Form in Artistic and Technological Design Processes
Subject Area
Art History, Music, Theatre and Media Studies
Construction Engineering and Architecture
Production Technology
Materials Engineering
Construction Engineering and Architecture
Production Technology
Materials Engineering
Term
from 2005 to 2014
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 370878
The Research Training Group aims at linking the far distanced research areas engineering science and humanities by investigating common scientific concepts and questions. A custom-tailored tutorial programme will ensure an optimal support and a reduced dissertation time in a mentally stimulating, interdisciplinary atmosphere.
The applicants common research interest is directed towards the production processes (procedure and production) in the arts and in technology, towards inherent possibilities to distinguish between them, but also towards areas where they meet and overlap and towards the parallel developments based on the mental inspiration or Zeitgeist-specific impulses. Apart from this it will be investigated in how far these procedures and processes can be called creative and to what extent new relationships are generated, original solutions are found or problems are seen in a different light.(Engineering) materials are at the interface between the engineering sciences and the artistic disciplines. The project will deal with new developments in engineering ceramics, synthetic materials and composites as well as with concrete construction. All dissertations planned in this context have either an engineering science (Dr.-Ing.) or a Humanities orientation (Dr. phil.).
The role of aesthetics in technology and the arts will be investigated. Central to this will be the issue of design viz. the relationship between technical properties and design.
The impact of technical processes on the arts disciplines like literature, music and architecture will be analysed, with a special emphasis on the conditions which make the genesis of creative solutions possible, e. g. in the applied arts or in town planning.
From the methodological point of view the research topics can be grouped in: historical, related to present times and theory-oriented. The applicants expect the project to stimulate their disciplines by providing new impulses which originate from the detection of parallel developments in the creative processes to be investigated and from the analysis of the diverse material components.
The applicants common research interest is directed towards the production processes (procedure and production) in the arts and in technology, towards inherent possibilities to distinguish between them, but also towards areas where they meet and overlap and towards the parallel developments based on the mental inspiration or Zeitgeist-specific impulses. Apart from this it will be investigated in how far these procedures and processes can be called creative and to what extent new relationships are generated, original solutions are found or problems are seen in a different light.(Engineering) materials are at the interface between the engineering sciences and the artistic disciplines. The project will deal with new developments in engineering ceramics, synthetic materials and composites as well as with concrete construction. All dissertations planned in this context have either an engineering science (Dr.-Ing.) or a Humanities orientation (Dr. phil.).
The role of aesthetics in technology and the arts will be investigated. Central to this will be the issue of design viz. the relationship between technical properties and design.
The impact of technical processes on the arts disciplines like literature, music and architecture will be analysed, with a special emphasis on the conditions which make the genesis of creative solutions possible, e. g. in the applied arts or in town planning.
From the methodological point of view the research topics can be grouped in: historical, related to present times and theory-oriented. The applicants expect the project to stimulate their disciplines by providing new impulses which originate from the detection of parallel developments in the creative processes to be investigated and from the analysis of the diverse material components.
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Technische Universität Hamburg
Spokesperson
Professorin Dr. Margarete Jarchow
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Paolo Fusi; Professor Dr. Thomas Hengartner (†); Professor Dr.-Ing. Karl Schulte (†); Professor Dr. Viktor Sigrist
