DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Skills
Immersive Experiences
DH at Western trains students to design and live immersive experiences.
Learning Journeys
All courses are designed following our learning journeys methodology.
THE LAB'S LAB
Internship Research Experience for Undergraduates
0.5 Credits with DH3600
Accepting Applications for Winter, Summer, Fall 2024 for the following topics:
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Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT, Dall-e2, etc.)
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Analysis of Cultural Networks
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Design (Principles & Applications)
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The Anthropocene
Send your Resume (including GPA) and Letter of Intent to Prof. Juan-Luis Suárez at jsuarez@uwo.ca:
THE HUMANITIES OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
PRINCIPLES
Mission: To evolve the Humanities and help mitigate the problems of the Anthropocene.
Vision: We will use our research to understand and improve the human condition in the Anthropocene.
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Reactivating the Humanistic Project of the Holocene.
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Creating and Using New Tools and Methodologies.
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Contributing Insights to Help Solve Urgent Problems.
DISCOVERY
The CulturePlex research on the Humans of the Anthropocene revolves around our actions, our language, our connections, and the effects they have at multiple scales. We bring together humanistic questions with new tools and methods of inquiry.
Cultural Networks
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The Language of Events
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Artificial Intelligence
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CULTURAL NETWORKS
By deploying the Cultural Network we understand the fundamental aspects of an organization, a social media event, and a cultural phenomenon. We also intervene and design solutions for our partners.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
We use several AI techniques (including Machine Learning) in processes of optimization and data analysis for our own projects and those with our partners. AI techniques allow us to think and act on a different scale than traditional research tools. We have learnt that when we combine both AI techniques and traditional tools our research is more effective and precise.
LANGUAGE OF EVENTS
The Event is the main process that emerges from our rapid, massive and constant digital interactions. Events are the creators of new realities via the language they produce both on and offline. We study the Language of Events by combining key philosophical concepts and the AI analysis of mass amounts of human and machine produced language.
STUDIOS
The CulturePlex Studios are a collection of organizational tools we use to work with our partners on special projects. The Studios apply and adapt our tools and models to the specific needs of these partners. We have engaged with diverse partners in finance, cybersecurity, precision agriculture, cultural management, and research to solve some of the most pressing issues they face.
The collaboration formulas we have employed include the support of the Ontario Centers of Innovation, MITACS, and direct research contracts.
CREATIVITY
Creativity Studios
(DIGIHUM 2127B)
Creativity is the craftsmanship of the self. Students will implement principles of Digital Craftsmanship to engage with their own creative lives. They will immerse in various technologies, learn how to transform a creative idea into a business plan, and learn about the process of creation and its relation with their own life.
Digital Transformation
(DIGIHUM 2223A)
Digital Transformation can be understood through five interconnected lenses: objects; networks; spaces; people; and organizations. Grounded in contemporary concepts and practices of Digital Transformation, this course examines cases of radical transformation and resistance across many different areas of knowledge.
Humans in Times of Crisis
(CLC 2109A)
Learning from the mistakes and solutions that humanists and strategists have implemented across cultures during some of the greatest crises in human history, this course will provide students with the much in-demand skills for a job market concerned about their capacity to help organizations navigate through these uncertain times.
Digital Creativity
(DIGIHUM 2120)
Super creative individuals have developed fulfilling and successful careers and lives by following their own paths and creating specific methodologies. This course teaches how to apply creativity based on real cases of innovation in fields such as music, technology, fashion, cooking, theater, and the Internet.
Research Internship
(DIGIHUM 3600)
Internship Research Experience for undergraduates in the topics of artificial intelligence (chatGPT, dall-e2, etc.), analysis of cultural networks, design (principles and applications), or The Anthropocene.
Fall 2023 applications – send your resume (including GPA) and letter of intent to Prof. Juan-Luis Suárez.