The Design Research Lab is a laboratory for experimental design and research reflecting on the digital society. Through playful interventions, critical making and collaborative reasoning we investigate possible futures. As a platform and network, we are deeply involved with the requirements and policies needed for an inclusive and sustainable development of the digital society from a design perspective.
We are an interdisciplinary team of designers, researchers, tech-enthusiasts and critical thinkers from Berlin University of the Arts, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, as well as Einsteincenter Digital Future (ECDF).
This compact course is about the conception and design of a pop-up lab as a mobile workshop. The Pop-Up Lab is a compact and portable form of a maker space. Already elaborated requirements are given to the students and will be discussed and further developed. The course focuses on the aspects of user, material and mobility requirements using participative design methods in groups of 4 people. At the centre of the design process is the workshop, either in the original sense and also as a place of information and knowledge transfer.
The course is limited to 20 students and is already completely booked. Prerequisites for a successful course are attendance, documentation, a presentation and a 3D model of the Pop-Up Lab.
Duration: 05.08. – 09.08.2019 / 10:00 – 18:00
Presentation of the results and submission of the documentation: 09.09.2019 / 10:00 – 11:30