CALL: Matchmaking Platform and Proposal Submission

WWTF opens the new call „Digital Humanism 2020“ which aims for collaborative projects between social sciences/humanities and informatics (in the wide sense) to address challenges associated with digitalization.

To facilitate new collaborations, WWTF set up a matchmaking platform to find partners for a joined proposal submission and to allow for easier networking in times of the Corona crisis: https://call-digital-humanism.b2match.io/

Please register, if you are interested in the topic and looking for partners to submit a collaborative project. Once registered, you can search for interesting collaboration partners, post requests/ideas and easily get in contact with other researchers.

The first matchmaking event with prescheduled 1:1 meetings and an online proposers’ day will be held on: 190620, 10:00 am.

The deadline for submitting a short proposal: 220920

Information about the call and how to submit a proposal are available at the Matchmaking Platform as well as at: https://www.wwtf.at/programmes/information_communication/#ICT20

Digital Humanism:

https://www.wwtf.at/digital_humanism/

Please note:

Interactive online talk with Tilo Grenz (University of Vienna) and Hilda Tellioglu (TU Wien) to get first insights into one example of a project in the area of Digital Humanism.

100620, 3-4 pm

The talk and discussion (in total 1 hour) will be held in English. The number of participants is limited and the registration follows a first come first serve principle.

Registration: https://call-digital-humanism.b2match.io/ to participate in the meeting (if you are already registered you can update your agenda via “My agenda” and “attendance settings”).

"Digital Humanism in the Making": Infrastructuring (in)visibility. Keeping track with nonconventional political participation in times of Corona

In the course of a first pilot call in the area of Digital Humanism in 2019, organized and operated by the City of Vienna (MA7), this interdisciplinary project was one out of nine to get funded. In "Digitale Infrastrukturen der Partizipation in Wien", the Department of Sociology (University of Vienna) and the Multidisciplinary Design & User Research Group (MDUR) at the Institute for Visual Computing & Human-Centered Technology (TU Wien), digital infrastructures of political participation in Vienna are analyzed. Digital infrastructures play an important role for civil society engagement, particularly in the distribution of knowledge, the coordination of a committed group of people and the identification of problem areas. The goal of the project is to identify these areas and to come up with proposals for solutions in order to lower the hurdles for civil society engagement or to increase opportunities for participation. A concept of the "design game" is being developed that can be transferred to other future projects and thus enables access and knowledge for all involved. The project started in December 2019 and is in the middle of its duration.

Hilda Tellioglu and Tilo Grenz will give insights into their current work in the project and will discuss their understanding of Digital Humanism, the interdisciplinary nature of the collaboration and what factors such a project needs to be successful. The three fields studied in Vienna and the complex dynamics and ongoing controversies – regarding each group’s (in)visibility – are briefly traced. Current challenges (esp. keeping track with the fast-moving developments since March 2020) and the gain of sharing disciplinary knowledge and methods (ethnography, design game) will be discussed.


08.06.2020