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Here is a list of institutions that have a similar teaching concept to the Y institute:
Tel Aviv University, The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts
Music, architecture, film, art history and theatre are practised under the same roof. Trans-disciplinary theoretical studies are offered at BA and MA level.
Multidisciplinary Programme in the Arts (BA)
Interdisciplinary Programme (MA)
California Institute of the Arts
Walt Disney founded CalArts in 1961 as "a place where there is cross-pollination“. Today, around 40% of the tuition conducted in all degree programmes (Fine Arts, Dance, Film, Theatre, Music) belong to the field Critical Studies. This includes philosophy, aesthetics, cultural and social sciences etc.
The Interschool Degree-Program allows Master students to put an individual curriculum together out of courses offered by various different departments.
General/Critical Studies (BA)
Interschool Degree (MA)
Brooklyn College
The Master degree programme Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) is a collaboration of the departments of fine arts, computer science, TV and radio as well as music and theatre. There is special emphasis on training students in the use of digital media.
Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA)
Hochschule der Künste Zürich (Zurich University of the Arts)
Following the Y-studies at the BUA, the ZHdK has been offering trans-disciplinary modules as elective or compulsory courses available to all degree programmes since 2008. A Master of Arts in Trans-disciplinarity is also on offer.
Master of Arts in Trans-disciplinarity
San Francisco Art Institute
The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies is divided into the areas Art and Science, Media Culture, Public Practice and Word, Text and Image. The teaching on offer is available to all BA programmes.
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Concordia University Montreal
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture organises talks and scientific conferences. It also establishes «Working Groups»: these are trans-disciplinary teams, made up of professors, Master students and PhD students working on themes such as «Screen Culture» and «Performance as Knowledge».
Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture
Here is a list of institutions that follow research concepts similar to the Y:
MIT Visual Arts Program
As part of the Department of Architecture, this programme encourages trans-disciplinary art practice and uses practices based on theory, criticism and research as important contributions ("Art and Science"). The teaching staff includes performance, installation and video artists as well as curators.
Studio 55. Centre for Research in Fine Art Practice, School of Art Glasgow
This is a creative laboratory and forum for criticism that conducts artistic research as a continuation of the tradition of the Bauhaus, Centrale Surréaliste and the Black Mountain College. It is based on Barnett Newman`s "Studio 35" project, which organised dialogues among artists, transcribed these and then distributed them.
Orpheus Institute - Advanced Studies and Research in Music
The overarching institution of Flemish music and theatre academies conducts research based on musical practice and offers post-diploma and PhD programmes for musicians and composers. It aims to provide musicians with a forum, where they can expand on their artistic training with practice-oriented research.
Syn
The institute of the Bremen University of Arts (Hochschule für Künste Bremen) sees itself as an artistic-scientific think tank based on the four pillars: art, music, design and science/theory. Its research and development goals, which are partly commissioned by external bodies, are inter- or para-disciplinary (para=next to). The relationships between the various disciplines are still to be tightened.
K.U.Leuven Association
This network of 13 Flemish academies/universities is developing future-oriented projects beyond disciplinary boundaries and aims to offer a broad range of degree programmes or professionally qualifying programmes. The intensive collaboration of the areas tuition, research and innovation ("the triangle of knowledge") is intended to raise the quality of the separate fields.
Pro*Doc Art&Science
The post-graduate programme of the Nationalfonds of the universities of Bern, Zurich, Fribourg, Geneva and Lausanne focuses on studying the relationship between art and science, starting at the beginning of the modern era and continuing on into contemporary times. The exploration of the reciprocal processes of exchange, reflection and learning marks the core of the programme. The sub-topic "Neuroscience, Psycho-pathology and the Arts in the 20th and 21st centuries" examines the role the arts played in the development of medical science.
Projects / Programmes / Studios:
CreaSearching
The joined research project of the universities of Geneva and Lausanne is developing methods and models for a form of research based on creation and design. A team of researchers, designers and art historians from both universities are conducting quantitative and qualitative research.
Figures of Touch
This is an interdisciplinary research project of the Academy of Finland (2009-2012), which focuses on the methods of media science, artistic research, aesthetics, philosophy and medical anthropology. The relationship of the arts, the body and society is explored, with special emphasis on the idea of "touch" - how are mind and body linked, or theory and practice, intellect and emotion.
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte – experimental systems and scientific spaces
The research projects of this department, directed by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, explore the history and epistemology of experimental practices, objects and scientific spaces, as well as the development of concepts in the modern life sciences. The three main research projects currently running are: "Die Experimentalisierung des Lebens“ ("The experimentalisation of Life"), "Eine Kulturgeschichte der Vererbung“ ("A Cultural History of Heredity") and "Wissen im Entwurf: Zeichnen und Schreiben als Verfahren der Forschung“ ("Sketching Science: Drawing and Writing as Research Practices").
Transdisziplinäres Atelier, ZHdK
The transdisciplinary studio of the ZHdK is supposed to provide teachers, students and other university staff members with a mutual platform for art and science. It also offers contributions to the funding of trans-disciplinary projects. It encourages the exchange among different art forms and aims to generate trans-disciplinarity and help to make it sustainable. The results of its different fora and conferences is collected in the "Zürcher Jahrbuch der Künste“, published once a year.
Stiftung HFG Ulm
The foundation Hochschule für Gestaltung HfG Ulm, founded by Inge Scholl, Otl Aicher and Max Bill, has not been running as a regular university since 1986, but instead aims to support the science, research and development of various design disciplines (architecture, city planning, design, fine arts) as well as the preservation of monuments and to foster discussions in these fields through the Internationale Forum für Gestaltung IFG Ulm GmbH. Since 2006, the foundation has been advertising funded projects fitting to one of the following titles: "Designing Politics – The Politics of Design“, "Ästhetik der Verantwortung“ ("The Aesthetics of Responsibility"), "Redefinition sozialer Designtheorie“ ("Redefining Social Design Theory")
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA)
This society promotes the inter- and trans-disciplinary exchange among the arts, sciences, medicine and technology by providing a platform, where practice, theory and public activities of the arts as well as social and natural sciences can meet and interact. The European branch of this society organises meetings and a yearly conference (taking place for the first time in 2010, on the topic of textures) and also does publications.
Design Reaktor Berlin
This is a trans-disciplinary research project of the Berlin University of Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin). Its aim is to realise innovative collaborations (ranging from experiments to commercial productions) among small and medium-size companies and among designers. The idea is to develop the competencies needed to work on the intersections of different disciplines and to promote collaborative authorship. More than eighty students from six different disciplines and under ten different professors (fashion and product design, digital design, social design and economic communication, communication design, photography and video) work together in this framework.
Black Mountain College
This revolutionary, alternative academy of arts was founded in the USA in 1933 (the time when National Socialism gained influence in Europe) and attracted a lot of European artists. The college, at which Josef Albers was the first teacher, was run democratically and autonomously (all members worked on the field, did building work, worked in the kitchen etc.). It was based on the belief that the arts are central to learning experiences. Since 1957, the Black Mountain College has been closed.
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
The research conducted at ZfL is dedicated to the theory and history of literature and scientific cultures in Europe. The focus is on the symbolic-linguistic characteristics of cultural and scientific products. ZfL takes literary science as its starting point and works in an inter-disciplinary way.
Databases/Journals:
Bibliography
The "Interfakultäre Koordinationsstelle für Allgemeine Ökologie" of the University of Bern has an online database that gives access to over 4`000 works on inter- and trans-disciplinarity. The publications are listed under the headings "Interdisziplinarität/Transdisziplinarität (ID/TD)", "Lehre/Forschung", "Wissenschaft/Disziplin", as well as in the catalogue of subjects.
Network for Transdisciplinary Research
This project of the Swiss Science Academies (Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz) was initiated to promote trans-disciplinary approaches in various fields of research, modeled on research on the environment and sustainable development. It provides an online bibliography about trans-disciplinarity.
Journal
for Artistic Research
The JAR is an international, online, open access journal, which is currently still in the planning stage. Its aim is to promote the identification with artistic research, its publication and distribution, as well as to develop its methodology. Its most innovative feature is the research catalogue (RC), which is a database that will document artistic research and its (re)presentation.
