berlin university of the arts is one of the biggest, most diversified and traditional universities of the arts world-wide. the teaching offered at the four colleges of fine art, design, music and performing arts as well as at the central institute of further education encompasses the full spectrum of the arts and related academic studies in more than 40 courses.

many research activities in the faculty are characterized by both an integration of artistic-creative and scientific issues. besides free research activities, a small part belongs to order-bound research activites that are financed by economic or political institutions. in order to connect all these projects, to share experience and knowledge from the various fields that form the research landscape of the faculty of architecture, media and design, a research forum has been initiated. various professors, academic assistants and others will share their research investigations by lecturing and discussing in this conference.