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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).
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Virtual Colloquium: The New Commons
While facing global crisis, war in Europe and climate change, we want to take a moment to reflect: What do we have in common? What are the things that we want to achieve together to build, and design for all of us? In this colloquium, we will invite guest speakers from all over the world to talk about their view on Allmende, digital commons, Gemeinwohl and beyond, from their perspective as designers, artists, activists, politicians or scientists. Based on this, we engage with you in debates about the role of design in creating the new commons, discuss our opportunities and responsibilities that might spark some ideas for taking action.
For our colloquium we invite perspectives of various actors from different parts of the globe in order to better understand the full scope of sustainable transformations of our societies, while considering quite different approaches, affordances as well as social and cultural implications. Together we want to reflect on our role as students, teachers, scholars and as the university as a potential space.
Schedule
21. Apr 2022 | Gesche Joost – Kick-Off
28. Apr 2022 | Jürgen Schulz – Gegen(-)Positionen zur Krisengesellschaft
5. May 2022 | Moritz Ahlert – New (digital) Commons
12. May 2022 | Hadas Zucker – Sustainable Innovation, Designing Preferable Futures
19. May 2022 | Christian Blümelhuber – The Common Good
26. May 2022 & 2. Jun 2022 | No Session
9. Jun 2022 | Micha Bohmeyer
16. Jun 2022 | Kristina Höög – Folkhemmet
23. Jun 2022 | Felix Oldenburg – Wealth As A Commons?
30. Jun 2022 | Elisabeth Hirner – Commons Lab
7. Jul 2022 | Benedikt Lehnert
14. Jul 2022 | Pia Lamberty
21. Jul 2022 | Gesche Joost – Closing Session
To register for the Colloquium, please fill out this form.