Research at the IMDR is in its early stages. Initial approaches explore how questions and insights from science and culture can be readdressed through design processes. The aim is not scientific explanation but the development of new forms of reference and access through aesthetic procedures — producing artefacts, expressions, and modes of representation.
For us, research means subjecting fields from science and culture to aesthetic processes. This produces outputs that do not merely depict results but function as forms of knowledge themselves. Their representational and mediating forms create new access to the respective questions.
With the LÆB – Laboratory for Aesthetic Knowledgeproduction & Transfer – a platform for initial projects is being established. It provides a space to test methods, explore forms of representation, and develop collaborations across architecture, design, art, and related disciplines.
Our research activities are evolving step by step. The long-term aim is to develop an agenda in which design and representation are established as practices that both produce knowledge and create access — through processes, artefacts, and forms of mediation that open new perspectives on science and culture.