The CRC 626 consists of three project areas encompassing in all 17 different projects. In January 2008 the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group 'Kosmos/Ornatus. Ornament as a Form of Cognition - A Comparison of Persia and France c. 1400' was associated.

Project Area A: Transformations of Aesthetic Experience

Research Project A3	The widening of the experience of the object in art and design since the 1960s
Research Project A4	Fictional Temporality. Boundary Figures of the Aesthetic in the Russian Avant-garde
Research Project A7	The Immanent Dissolution of Limits in Contemporary Art Practices and in the Experience of Art
Research Project A10	Evocation of reality as artistic process
Research Project A11	Television series as an aesthetic form
Research Project A12	Dissolutions of Limits between Art / Work and Thing

Project Area B: The Specifity of Aesthetic Experience in the individual Arts

Research Project B2	Aesthetic Experience as Liminal Experience
Research Project B3	On the Significance of Illusion and Fiction in Aesthetics and Film Aesthetics
Research Project B4	The Future of Art Music, Saved by the Diversification of Aesthetics?
Research Project B6	Topographies of the Ephemeral. Choreography as Procedure and Operation
Research Project B7	The Politics of Aesthetics in Western European Cinema
Research Project B8	The Interrelated Dynamics of Display and Situation within Aesthetic Reflection
Research Project B9	The Poetics of the Improbable

Project Area C: The Scope of the Concept of Aesthetic Experience

Research Project C7	Inspiration and Subversion: Artistic Creation as Aesthetic-Religious Experience
Research Project C9	Aesthetic 'Liveliness': Presentification – Present Tense – Presentness
Research Project C13	Sensory and Symbolic Reflexivity in Aesthetic Media
Research Project C14	Aesthetics of adjudication/Law in aesthetic judgments