Research in the saai | iaas

With the newly launched research center iaas [international architectural archival studies], research is located in the archive itself. With projects on metadata genesis or ordering structures in the estates, the iaas makes use of its unique position in the saai archive utilizing the synergies of the interdisciplinary team and the links between analog and digital processes, from two-dimensional files to three-dimensional models, the time lapses of long-term storage to the speed of AI-controlled data acquisition, and from material restoration processes to digital erosion. With two research start up positions and a postdoc position funded by the strategy fund of the KIT president, the iaas will work toward current and historical urgent question into and out of the archive itself. The location of the saai at the KIT, a University of Excellence and Helmholtz research center, allows the research topics to be ideally linked with developments in the philosophy of science, computer science, engineering and, last but not least, architecture.