Christiane Wagner’s research fields are the social sciences, humanities, and arts, concentrating on the subfields of aesthetics, the science of art, and applied social sciences, covering topics such as communication, architecture, design, visual arts, and audio-visual studies. Her research line addresses a critical assessment of the arts, media, and digital technology with aesthetic, educational, social, and cultural concerns encompassing integrated, human-centered, and public-interest design, seeking and creating solutions that improve everyday life. For more information, please check out her current projects, including past project themes from the last 5 years. – Research Line (1) Media Aesthetics and Public Interest Design … Continue reading Research Lines

Uncovering Evidence of Design Integration _ Research Projects 1. Integrated Design Principles This research analyses integrated design resolutions and human-centered design. To this end, digital resources—algorithmic rule, the Internet of things, and artificial intelligence (AI)—are analyzed, targeting interactive digital systems. Specifically, this analysis seeks to identify the limits of AI’s capacity to solve human problems involving design-based learning (DBL) in three development stages: problem analysis, problem solution, and project reporting. New attempts to resolve problems during the human-machine learning process are analyzed to address problems unsolved by artificial intelligence (AI) by highlighting human values and goodwill in decisions, choices, and solutions … Continue reading Research Line 1

Architectural Spaces and Values of Design – Research Projects 1.  Designer’s Social Responsibility This project addresses the design challenges regarding planning and involvement with the entire social structure. The focus is on constructing knowledge, identifying problems, and searching for solutions as primary factors of the designer’s social responsibility focused on the ethical values of sustainable development. Accordingly, this approach is outlined in the following parts. The first refers to the historical background of the early impacts of the technological revolution on urban life and, consequently, on the values of a “romantic nature” in opposition to industrial development. In this respect, the bases … Continue reading Research Line 2

Environmental Aesthetics: Image Media, Cultural Heritage and Sustainability – What would the possibilities be for the continuous development and evolution of our environment following the implementation of creativity, techniques, and learning processes for problem-solving and improvement through design or architecture? Intriguing problems drive creativity and the development of methods to overcome the limits of ideas and thinking, which involve searching for greater understanding, knowledge, and, above all, a better human capacity to communicate and relate within our environments. At the end of the 20th century, technological transformations were determinants of the consequences of global industrial action affecting the new direction … Continue reading Research Line 3

Environmental Sustainability: Public Spaces and Collaborative Actors in a Digital Ecosystem Affiliated Project at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin (ICI Berlin 2023-24) Christiane Wagner’s research delves into the consequences of digital technology, verifying the connections between actors and actions based on collaboration. Wagner focuses on design and architecture projects and artistic performances by applying digital devices, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in the context of environmental sustainability. The implementation of her project targets the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development following the Charter of the United Nations, which includes the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She focuses on the eleventh … Continue reading Newest Projects