We live in a world that is characterized by
volatility, uncertainty, ambiguity, and an increasingly high degree of complexity. The multiple, intersecting challenges we
are facing — such as global conflicts, pandemics, aging societies, climate crises, authoritarian backlash, migration, inequality
and digitization, — require new ways to identifying, understanding and tackling problems across disciplines and areas of expertise.
The
PhD programme Transformation Studies. Art x Science ("Art cross Science") equips young and upcoming scholars
with transdisciplinary knowledge, skills, and competencies needed to face present and future challenges. Studying transformation
and its effect on the political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal sphere is thus at the centre of
the programme, which builds new bridges between the arts and sciences.
The Art x Science School for Transformation
is an inter-university endeavour intertwining the strengths and expertise of the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the University
of Applied Arts Vienna. Its goal is to develop, share and teach cross-disciplinary knowledge at the intersection of the arts,
humanities and sciences, yielding new forms of creativity, invention, innovation, collaboration, and learning. Teaching takes
place in Vienna and Linz and benefits from the different learning spaces and workshops of both universities.
Graduate
Activities
The PhD programme in
Transformation Studies. Art x Science promotes independent, innovative
research that furthers international academic discussions and debates. Graduates will be able to develop transdisciplinary
projects in their respective areas of specialisation, builiding on methos and approaches from humanities, sciences, and the
arts. The curriculum emphasises student-led scientific and artistic research that engages with planetary challenges across
their multiple intersecting dimensions. Projects should involve a diverse, transdisciplinary team of academic and non-academic
contributors in collaborative research settings to ensure the dissemination of outputs beyond academia in support of concerned
publics and collectivities.
