RESEARCH
Making complex systems more visible.
The core of the Digital Space Lab —
A research space for orientation in complex situations.
EPISTHEON
Orientation when coherent answers are not enough.
Epistheon is the epistemic architecture developed at the Digital Space Lab.
It examines the relationships between explanation, orientation, uncertainty, limits and responsibility — particularly in knowledge environments where artificial intelligence can generate convincing and coherent answers without resolving the conditions under which those answers should be trusted or acted upon.
TANGLED WEBS
Following the relationships behind the economy.
Products, brands and companies rarely exist in isolation. Behind them are production relationships, ownership structures, corporate networks and dependencies that are often difficult to see from the surface.
Tangled Webs investigates these connections and develops methods and data for making economic relationships, concentration, dependency and responsibility more visible.
NETWORK & DIGITAL METHODS
Structure becomes visible through relationships.
The Digital Space Lab has worked with digital networks, web data and relational research for more than 15 years. The methodological toolbox includes:
Social Network Analysis
Actors, relationships and structural positions.
Hyperlink & Digital Methods
Digital traces, online environments and web-based relationships.
OSINT & Data Research
Open-source information, structured research and verification.
LLM-Supported Knowledge Work
Using artificial intelligence for research, comparison, synthesis and analysis where it improves the work.
Methods are not the starting point. They are used where they help answer the actual research question.