Shifting Paradigms

The “Shifting Paradigms” Research Symposium takes place at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) in cooperation with the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe, on December 5 and 6, 2024. Both institutions’ overarching postgraduate program is intended to bring together and utilize interdisciplinary expertise in order to explore the relationships between art, theory and design in a new way, thus building on the pioneering founding idea of the HfG and ZKM.

At the same time, it is intended to respond to a larger paradigm shift that seems to be taking place in art and culture as well as in the scientific field and which is expressed on the one hand in crises of legitimization and on the other in new and creative forms of research and production of knowledge.

The HfG Karlsruhe is taking this diagnosis as an opportunity to rethink hybrid formats of research and also to question the function of academic doctorates. To present and discuss these programmatic considerations, the symposium with international guests aims to create spaces and ideas for a transforming research practice.

With Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Matthias Bruhn, Filipa César, Constanze Fischbeck, Alistair Hudson, Susanne Kriemann, Armin Linke, Tina Lorenz, Monica Narula, Simon Sheikh, Joy Mariama Smith, Nina Zschocke and others.