Dr. Claudia Schnugg investigates the intersections of art, science, and technology, focusing on how art can act as a distinctive partner in knowledge generation, innovation, and societal engagement. Her work bridges artistic practice, aesthetics, and organizational studies to understand the processes and outcomes of interdisciplinary collaboration.
Central to her research is the integration of art into scientific practice, not as illustration or support, but as an equal mode of inquiry. In projects like DIGI Sense, she develops methodologies where artistic approaches actively contribute to scientific research, producing insights for science while enabling artists to create work of their own. Her studies examine how such collaborations shape participants, organizations, disciplines, and society—revealing the unique capacities of art to generate knowledge, foster reflection, and stimulate innovation.
Beyond methodology, she explores the organizational and social structures that make artscience collaborations effective, developing frameworks for sustainable engagement and multi-level impact. Her theoretical work highlights the interplay between process and outcome, showing how meaningful artistic collaboration unfolds over time and across individual, organizational, disciplinary, and societal levels. She is working on theory building on why art is a meaningful partner for engagement and collaboration with science and technology through the artistic practice and media, aesthetics, and the art’s embeddedness in culture.
Her research combines qualitative and aesthetic approaches, including visual, spatial, sonic, and embodied analysis, alongside discourse studies and reflective practice, capturing both tangible and experiential dimensions of art–science interactions.
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