Cross-Disciplinary Strategies
Applied Studies in Art, Science, Philosophy, and Global Challenges
The department Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (CDS) offers a practice-based BA and MA study programme. At CDS, students, artists, scholars, and civil communities work together to create an open space in which experimental projects and research come to life.
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CDS engages in artistic, academic, and social conversations on complex and interconnected problems, including the climate catastrophe, digitalisation, inequality, and entangled transformations. Through this engagement, graduates gain the skills of developing and articulating their critical perspective and responding to the positions of others.
CDS creates the opportunity to work on current societal concerns in a multidisciplinary degree programme, linking approaches and methodologies of the arts, the humanities, IT, and social sciences.
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How do we work together?
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Cross-Disciplinary Strategies allows students to work on global challenges by interweaving perspectives from three study areas: (i) artistic strategies and art perception, (ii) science and technology, and (iii) economics, politics, and society. CDS understands this collaboration as a basic precondition to finding practical solutions. In this way, CDS emphasises the intellectual practice of cross-disciplinarity and the transformative potential of engaging across different positions with diverse stakeholders.
Furthermore, CDS encourages connections beyond the university. It creates opportunities for students to reach out and engage in conversations beyond academic and artistic discourses. Therefore, CDS students spend their time in various activities, including attending lectures, visiting sites and studios, building objects, writing papers, debating with experts, and asking others to share their knowledge and ideas.
Further information on CDS:
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CDS Studio and Offices
Institute of Arts and Society
University of Applied Arts Vienna
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CDS Studio and Offices
Cross-Disciplinary Strategies
Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz (= PSK)
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, first floor
Institute of Arts and Society
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Vienna, Austria
