Thought-provoking impulses beyond the usual disciplines

Our topics are as diverse as life in the house of science. As a forum, FiF is your contact for all possible innovative research ideas and questions. With its different event formats, FiF seeks to provide interdisciplinary research with thought-provoking impulses that reach beyond the usual disciplinary references and thus offers open space for new ideas and inspirations.

Our present topics

Education

There is reason enough to think about what education means – and why it is indispensable, not least in times of digitalisation and artificial intelligence. FiF events offer a space for such reflection, which has become rare event in today's "disenchanted university" (Antonio Loprieno) – and is thus even more valuable.

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Creativity

Creativity is discussed today in all possible contexts. What exactly characterises it and how it presents itself is, however, in need of clarification – with regard to necessary structural contexts, quasi conditions of the possibility of creativity, as well as to the regard of "logic" and form of creative practices.

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IANUS

IANUS means natural and engineering related peace research in exchange with the social sciences and humanities. IANUSconsiders itself as a multi- and trans-disciplinary network of researchers at TU Darmstadt.

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Digitalisation

Digitalisation is a process that affects all areas of life and work, involving scientific infrastructures as well as services and administrations. It is a "revolution" that will also transform life in our cities.

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Man & Machine

The man-machine relationship is facing new challenges due to technical developments in various areas. The problems of learning for humans and robots not only raise the question what both sides can learn from and influence each other, respectively how computer-aided techniques – for example in the field of prosthetics – can be used to compensate for deficits in human efficiency.

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Past topics

Topics which are present and relevant in the context of FiF in one way or another may not remain so forever. Where new topics become the subject of discussion, other topics must move into the background – which does not mean that they cannot again become relevant with new nuances.

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Selected FiF events sorted by topic