Access - to knowledge, space and culture The theme of the first edition of Shift is access. Access to knowledge, space and culture in our digitized times has become a chance as well as a conflict zone, in which interests run headfirst into each other and where new models are being developed in different areas: culture no longer exists as works of individual authors, but also in the participation of many so called "consommauteur". New economical models  such as the gift economy ­ follow old ones, not without rearguard action. Culture has never been consumed more widely as today, while at the same time this consumption is treated suspiciously, as being mere piracy. In public space commercial, cultural, and political boundaries are being redefined.