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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.
