Screening Diversity – Diversity and Virtuality

Joint event with SFB 1567
RUB Diversity Day

May 24, 2023, 6 p.m. – 10 p.m.
RUB-Campus, HGB 10

The Collaborative Research Centers 1567 (Virtual Lifeworlds) and 1280 (Extinction Learning) continued the SFB tradition of a joint short film festival on the occasion of the RUB Diversity Day – for the first time with immersive media! Under the title Screening Diversity – Diversity and Virtuality, both SFBs jointly showed short films presenting selected VR applications. The productions offer a variety of approaches to the topic of diversity: some address the possibility of becoming someone else or being perceived as someone else, some already refer to aspects of diversity in their production. In an open post-production discussion, the two SFB speakers Stefan Rieger (1567) and Onur Güntürkün (1280), together with Dr. Jördis Grabow (Institute for Diversity Research, Göttingen), jointly examined from their respective different professional perspectives which realities appear in the virtual, which diversity the virtual promises and which it can deliver.

We thank you for all the feedback and your interest in watching, testing and discussing what we have seen and experienced under the VR glasses.

Screening Diversity was an event organized by the CRC 1567 Virtual Lifeworlds and the CRC 1280 Extinction Learning as part of the first university forum “Diversity and Virtuality”. It was also part of the RUB Diversity Day.