https://dataspaces.cids.tu-dresden.de/
The exhibition //DataSpaces at TU Dresden's Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences (CIDS) focuses on three topics: complexity, high-performance computing, and data visualization in the form of maps. There are various exhibits where visitors to //DataSpaces can get active themselves: manipulating swarms and other complex systems, getting dressed at the magic mirror, or conversing with a chatbot.
The exhibition combines science and artistic design to make complex topics understandable and tangible. Digital visualizations open up new perspectives that allow you to see topics in the areas of data protection, data analysis, and high-performance computing from new angles.
Digital transformation is shaping and characterizing our time. The foundation of this digital era is data: it serves as the basis for numerous processes – from demographic decisions to questions about energy or mobility. Research areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) are not only accelerating processes in science, but also developments in economy and society.
As the key to a profound understanding of change, science can make an essential contribution to the design of a sustainable and livable future. Science provides methods and tools for collecting data and making it usable. Transparency, safety and comprehensibility of the processes are crucial in this respect.
The CIDS is dedicated to research in these fields, and the exhibition //DataSpaces. Experience Science. gives insights into its work. The exhibition has been designed to make the Center's complex topics and the multifaceted interweaving of interdisciplinary issues and relationships understandable and tangible. One of the exhibition's focuses is on changing perspectives, allowing visitors to take a critical look at the research.
"The //DataSpaces exhibition impressively demonstrates how historical exhibits and future applications can be placed in relation to one another. Understanding data, methods and their digital and entirely concrete spaces can be done very well here right on campus. Where else can you make your own punched tape and train your own neural networks? This interactive exhibition allows you to immerse yourself in the topic of data, which is so crucial to our society," Prof. Jens Krzywinski encouraged visitors to the exhibition opening to discover the exhibits and engage with the topic.
