CREATE
CREATE is short for Creative Amsterdam: An E-Humanities Perspective, based at the department of Media Studies. This project integrates and supports research on urban and cultural history conducted with digital ...
Humanities Labs
The Faculty of Humanities hosts several Labs, merged under the same roof on the borders of the University Quarter. Housed in the Bushuis on the Kloveniersburgwal, the 4D Research Lab, CREATE, Digital Methods Initiative, Music Lab, SignLab, Speech Lab and the Conservation and Restoration Labs together provide a place for innovative research and education in the humanities, and an inspiring environment for researchers, students and partners.
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The Humanities Labs
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4D Research Lab
The 4D Research Lab (4DRL) focuses on research and application of 3D technology for scientific research and education. The core of the work in this lab lies in virtual visualisation. -
Conservation and Restoration Labs
In the Conservation and Restoration Labs, students and researchers study the processes of making works of old, modern and contemporary art. -
Digital Methods Initiative
The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) is one of Europe’s leading Internet Studies research groups, focused on research into the ‘natively digital’. -
Music Lab
The Music Cognition Group (MCG) applies interdisciplinary perspectives on the capacity to perceive, make, and appreciate music. -
SignLab
SignLab is a cross-faculty research lab bringing together a long tradition of sign language linguistics in Amsterdam with recent advances in artificial intelligence. -
Speech Lab
Experiments in the Speech Lab allow researchers to answer questions about the perception and production, as well as about the acquisition and diachronic change of language and speech.