University of Plymouth, UKPlanetary CollegiumNGL-Node, Switzerland

Neue Galerie Luzern, Switzerland (since 1985)The Swiss Biennial on Science, Technics + Aesthetics (since 1994)

Ph.D. Research Programme

Advisory Board (confirmed)

• Dr. Mark Banks, The Open University, Milton Keynes• Dr. Bob Bishop, President and Founder, ICES Foundation, Geneva• Dr. Fritjof Capra, Center for Ecoliteracy, Berkeley• Stuart Hameroff, M.D., Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona• John Horgan, Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken• PD Dr. Christina Ljungberg, University of Zurich• Dr. Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths College, University of London• Dr. Uli Sigg, Sigg Collection, Switzerland• Margaret Wertheim, Institute For Figuring, Los Angeles

Location (Mt. Rigi, Central Switzerland)

William Turner, The Blue Rigi, Lake of Lucerne, Sunrise, 1842

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Chapel near a Forest Hill (Mt. Rigi), Ink Drawing, 1775

Mineral Bath, Rigi Kaltbad

The Swiss Biennial on Science, Technics and Aesthetics (since 1994)

The Swiss Biennial has been a forum for discussions of major topics such as Brain–Mind–Culture (1995), Liquid Visions (1997), Frontier Communication: Human Beings, Apes, Whales, Electronic Networks (1999), The Enigma of Consciousness (2001), Consciousness and Teleportation (2005), Consciousness and Quantum Computers (2007), and The Large, the Small and the Human Mind (2010, 2012 Part 2) by internationally acclaimed speakers such as the British mathematician Sir Roger Penrose (2001 and 2012), the Austrian quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger (1992 and 2001) the German chaos theorist Otto E. Rössler (2001), the French sociologist Bruno Latour (2010), the Austrian-American ecologist Fritjof Capra (2010), and the Austrian non-dualist philosopher Josef Mitterer (1995).

The critical reflection of the production and dissemination of social, scientific and humanities and arts knowledge

The exploration of possibilities for socio-cultural change

Moral-ecological futures (the exploration of cultural workplace identities with a moral-ecological-political awareness)

The Scope of the Programme

The exploration of new forms of cultural work, dialogue and social action

It offers cultural workers, designers and educators whowork in the humanities andsciences the possibility toexplore a range of inquiriesand creative approaches

It offers cultural workers, designers and educators whowork in the humanities andsciences the possibility toexplore a range of inquiriesand creative approaches

It combines empiricalresearch with theoreticalanalysis, based on actualcase studies to comment onthe value and outcomes ofcultural work

It combines empiricalresearch with theoreticalanalysis, based on actualcase studies to comment onthe value and outcomes ofcultural work

It helps cultural workers toimprove their knowledge on atheoretical and practical levelby defining their work from a socio-epistemological-political perspective

It helps cultural workers toimprove their knowledge on atheoretical and practical levelby defining their work from a socio-epistemological-political perspective

It encourages inquiry into newforms of democratic deliberationin social and epistemological-political terms that supportfuture directions of thegovernance of cultural work

It encourages inquiry into newforms of democratic deliberationin social and epistemological-political terms that supportfuture directions of thegovernance of cultural work

Outstanding Features of the Programme

It encourages research into anew understanding of the changing dimensions of the dissemination of knowledgein science, the humanities and the arts

It encourages research into anew understanding of the changing dimensions of the dissemination of knowledgein science, the humanities and the arts

It encourages communication,perception and imagination inthe broad field of cultural work

It encourages communication,perception and imagination inthe broad field of cultural work

It will lay the foundations forfurther studies of cultural workwith the aim to critically analysesocietal developments andto create cultural workplaceidentities with a moral-ecological-political awareness

It will lay the foundations forfurther studies of cultural workwith the aim to critically analysesocietal developments andto create cultural workplaceidentities with a moral-ecological-political awareness

Outstanding Features of the Programme

Inquiries into constructive cultural practices

The socio-epistemological-political responsibility of cultural work

(Self-)reflexive inquiries into our non-knowledge

The Scope of Research

Inquiries into new paths for (self-)reflexivity, contemplation and consciousness

The NGL-Node is based on the educational model of the Planetery Collegium

QAA

Benefits

The standards of an internationally acclaimed Ph.D. Programme

• The NGL-Node is embedded in the Planetary Collegium‘s ethos and intellectual scope

• Mandatory composite sessions, research updates etc.

• Admission policy

• Eligibility

Organization