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New technologies usually have potential, but their mode of action and long-term consequences are not always immediately apparent. This challenge can be met in an interdisciplinary way with approaches that integrate different perspectives. Young scientists have come together to work on meeting this challenge from an interdisciplinary perspective in the Young Forum of Technical Sciences: Technology that people really want. The aim is to support user-centred technology development based on interdisciplinary methods. Engineering, law, social sciences and the humanities can work together to shape technical developments in a way that leads to a form of technology that is adapted to the needs of society. Interdisciplinarity in research and development means mutual permeation of disciplines instead of mere coexistence. The aim is to promote interdisciplinary research groups and projects and to develop common methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper summarises and reflects on the workshop based publishing process of Windtunnel Bulletin no. 7, a collaboration of AG Kunst und Wissenschaft (a research in the arts and humanities study group funded by Ev. Studienwerk e. V. Villigst) and the Research Focus Transdisciplinarity ( fsp-t) at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Thanks to receiving funding by the Andrea von Braun Stiftung the extensive project could be realized and reliably planned from an early stage on, especially with regard to financing one crucial aspect of the publication, i. e. graphic design. This paper presents the groups involved in the different phases of the publication process, which becomes described as a shared process of knowledge production among the arts, humanities and graphic design. Particular emphasis is placed on the interplay of content and graphic design, which has been decisive in shaping themes and direction of the publication. Windtunnel Bulletin no. 7 has been published in 2018 and is available in book shops in Brussels, Berlin, and New York. It is also available open access online: http://windtunnelbulletin.zhdk.ch [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Blackletter prints still challenge computers and scholars alike when it comes to accuracy of text recognition. In this paper we show our approach to evaluate OCR accuracy of old text documents. Thus we challenge funding agencies' demands on accuracy by arguing that mixed methods like scalable reading help to achieve sufficient results from text documents of insufficient accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article tries to point out that in the early modern period, including the Renaissance, philosophy increasingly developed a certain kind of thinking and arguing that needed to be sustained by ...icons..., ...pictures... or ...signs.... Following a suggestion made by Stephen Clucas in inviting a group of scholars to discuss the topos of ...silent languages... at Birbeck College (University of London), this paper discusses 1. a general possible meaning of ...silent language..., divided into three modes of symbolic and geometric representation, and introducing 2. three ...stages... in the historical development of philosophical systems representing these three modes: Plotinus, Cusanus, the philosophy of the 16th and 17th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]