On 15 April 2025, the workshop “Cultural Participation in the Future Society” took place at Osaka University (Japan). The workshop was a joint initiative between the Centre for Advanced Study and the Graduate School of Humanities at Osaka University. The conference examined the potential and significance of inclusive cultural participation in the digital environment. Prof. Dr Reinold Schmücker, director of the Centre for Advanced Study, delivered the keynote lecture on the topic “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change”.

Programme

• Keynote Lecture: Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change
  Prof. Dr. Reinold Schmücker (University of Münster, Director of the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change”)

• Optimized Realities: Cultivations of Heritage in the Design Lab
  Dr. Neelankantan Keshavan (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)

• AI-Powered Global Poetry? Digital Access to Foreign Literature
  Dr. Johannes Waßmer (University of Osaka, Japan)

• Struggle against Aesthetic Injustice: In the Case of Cocoroom
  Prof. Dr. Hitoshi Tanaka (University of Osaka, Japan)