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Ideaz. Platform for Intercultural and Comparative Research
National Network
Austria
Address
Zirkusgasse 27/16 A – 1020 Vienna AustriaCountry
AustriaCity
A – 1020 ViennaStreet address 2
Zirkusgasse 27/16Mobile Phone
+ 43 (0)664 5174742E-Mail (2)
Johannes.Maerk@ideaz-institute.comWebsite
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2005Contact Person1
Johannes MarkContact Person 2
Christian SushiOrganisation Type
Non-Governmental OrganizationFields of Activity
International/Cultural relationsGeneral Information
1. Network structure: two full-time researchers. We hire research staff according to the needs of our projects. 2. The budgetary resources depend on the projects that we acquire during a year. 3. Private and public sponsoring. 4. Seminars, research projects, academic meetings 5. We have co-operated with the Swiss and Canadian Embassies in Vienna and with the Vienna Institute for Development and CooperationMission and Objectives
Ideaz is a non-profit association in Vienna (Austria) aiming to provide a bringing-together of academics, intellectuals, and cultural workers from the South (mainly from the Arab/Muslim World, Asia, Africa and Latin America) and the industrialized countries in the North. The intention is to offer a space that can serve as a truly translocal and transnational place of critical and self-critical ideas, projects and perspectives. Thus, Ideaz supports a discourse of knowledge that is not limited to the established trajectories of scientific knowledge between the “northern” countries (Western Europe, North America and Japan), but explicitly incorporates representatives from often neglected “Southern” places. Especially for this second group of persons – established as well as junior scholars and artists – Ideaz will offer the possibility of intercultural encounters in AustriaMain Projects / Activities
1. Research Projects on intercultural and comparative issues in the following fields of research • Modernity and Technology in an intercultural perspective. The expected outcome is the analysis of different cultural concepts and approaches to modernity and technology from a southern perspective. • Reactions of civil society to the challenges of globalization in a comparative perspective Research will focus on the role of civil society in an increasingly connected world with special emphasis on “southern“ countries and the uneven relationships between North and South. 2. (Co-)organisation of conferences and lectures