EXC 1027: Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory

科学是“格式塔通”，包括研究和交流的方方面面，从实验室安排到化学公式，从研究的组织到理论建设。知识总是由架构、工具、模型以及所使用的信息媒体和图像塑造的。在过去的半个世纪里，由于数字成像过程的发展，盖世太通在知识生产和感知方面的意义已经达到了新的质量。作为一种可视化和总结、建模和交流、校样和存档的手段，图像从根本上改变了科学、人文、技术和医学。现在，人们有可能掌握曾经令人难以置信的海量数据和复杂性。由于图像不仅在无形的层面上运作，而且将数字信息与材料交织在一起，图像成为各种形式知识的综合储存库和表现形式。图像打破了学科和地方的界限，它们传达了风格和审美策略。Gestaltung是现代设计和生产程序的典范，因此从边缘发展到研究本身的核心。这一卓越集群是从这一中心原则出发的。图像和知识被分析为格式塔通的一个过程。它构建了一个跨学科的实验室，作为一个新的虚拟和真实的知识架构，人文、科学和技术研究以及设计学科平等参与其中。在此背景下，格式塔通成为研究的典范概念。在柏林洪堡大学200年的历史上，第一次建立了一个综合学术平台，来自众多大学和非大学研究机构和博物馆的22个学科参与其中。这一实施可能会决定性地改变这所大学。

Science is "Gestaltung", including all aspects of research and communication from laboratory arrangements to chemical formulae, from the organisation of a study up to theory building. Knowledge has always been shaped by architectures, tools, models and the information media and images used. In the past half century, the significance of Gestaltung in the production and perception of knowledge has achieved a new quality due to the development of digital imaging processes. As a means of rendering visible and summarisation, modelling and communication, proof and archiving, images have fundamentally transformed the sciences, humanities, technology and medicine. Now it is possible to grasp what were once inconceivably vast amounts of data and complexities. Since images not only operate on an immaterial level, but also interweave digital information with the material, images become a comprehensive reservoir and representation of various forms of knowledge. Images explode disciplinary and local boundaries, and they transport styles and aesthetic strategies. Gestaltung, a paradigm of modern design and production procedures, thus advances from the periphery to the core of research itself. This Cluster of Excellence proceeds from this central tenet. Images and knowledge are analysed as a process of Gestaltung. It constructs an interdisciplinary laboratory as a new virtual and real architecture of knowledge in which humanities, sciences and technology studies as well as the design disciplines participate equally. In this context, Gestaltung becomes a model concept of research. For the first time in the 200-year history of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, an integrative scholarly platform is established with the participation of 22 disciplines from numerous university and non-university research institutions and museums. This implementation may decisively transform the university.