WITNESSING

In a world undergoing profound and rapid change, there is a need to gain an understanding of the complex dynamics of this change and to identify applied formats that make this understanding tangible and comprehensible. With our various global challenges becoming embedded in new streams of digital information (“real” or “artificial”), witnessing takes on new significance. This exhibition gathers the works of Bachelor Cross-Disciplinary Students critically examining this year’s annual theme of the CDC Application Lab, extending their research and project works to diverse types of witnesses, from eyewitnesses, to expert witnesses, political witnesses, and even silent witnesses. Each type underscores how testimony presents only a partial view, demanding trust, interpretation, and careful navigation, thereby opening a field of ethical and epistemological concerns. Across various media formats, visitors are invited to reflect on the possibilities and limitations of witnessing and the critical questions that arise whenever we encounter our natural, digital, human, and more-than-human surroundings.