The Design Research Lab is a network of people, organisations, and non-human agents engaged at the intersection of technologies, materials, and social practices. Our aim is to design socially and ecologically sustainable tools, spaces, and knowledge that support people’s participation in a digital society – based on common principles of inclusiveness and respect for the planet. This puts the basic democratic right to take part in the digital sphere into practice. We start our research from individual lifeworlds and the needs of minoritized groups, beyond consumer majorities.
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).
The Design Research Colloquium takes place on thursdays from 9:30 – 11.00 Uhr at Einsteinufer 43-53 (Raum 203) (apart from sessions that take place in Room HS 127 in the back part of our building, please watch out!). This semester it will start again on Thursday 17.10.2019
These are some of the dates (more to be followed):
17.10.19 Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost
Introduction
24.10.19 Gameli Adzaho
Pathways to Social Impact
31.10.19 Daniela Rosner
Critical Fabulations Beyond the Frame: Towards Radical Accountability in Design
07.11.19 Marie Kochsiek & Marie Dietze
Contributions of Open Soft- and Hardware in the Context of Sexual Health
14.11.19 Prof. Dr. Jutta Allmendinger (WZB)
Social Cohesion
21.11.19 Ariana Dongus
Beyond AI myths
28.11.19 Rashid Owoyele
t.b.a.
05.12.19 Dr. Bianca Herlo
Civic Design and Civic Tech
12.12.19 Dr. Stefanie Wuschitz
Feminist Hack Collectives (as Breeding Ground for Open Source Tech, Mutual Care and Resistance)
16.01.20 Malte Bergmann & Sandra Stark
t.b.a.
23.01.20 Michelle Christensen & Florian Conradi
t.b.a.
*** Further dates to be announced***