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).
Berlin University of the Arts is looking for a student assistant for 60-80 hours/month starting immediately.
Project:
Erasmus+ “Change Agents”
01 December 2022-30 November 2024
For an international cooperation with partners* from Spain, Estonia, Italy, Israel, Hungary.
https://www.socialdesignnetwork.org/projects/2
Tasks:
Conceptual support for workshops and events (in cooperation with the NGO “Democratic Society” and City Lab Berlin).
Editorial work in internal and external communication
Documentation of workshops and events
Support with organizational and administrative tasks
Support for the podcast as a co-research tool (in cooperation with Uni Bozen)
Requirements:
Student* in the field of design, communication, humanities or social sciences (enrolled at a university in Germany).
Organizational talent and independent working style
High demand for accuracy
Interest in the implementation of creative measures
Very good command of written and spoken English
What we offer:
Very good working atmosphere at the Design Research Lab of the UdK Berlin
International design and design research network
Flexible working
Exciting insights into the work of the design research community and the Social Design Network (https://www.socialdesignnetwork.org/)
Interested?
Then please contact .
About the project:
The project objective is to create lasting infrastructures of collaboration and to build solid bridges between different key social agents and institutional settings (higher education institutions with NGO sector) in order to help developing more sustainable practices, social sustainability by articulating epistemic tools that encourage socially conscious approaches and attitudes on the field of design. The Change Agents project aims to understand and improve innovative practices at the intersection between HEIs and other sector organisations in order to develop pilot cooperation strategies that later can be potentially embedded into educational modules. The Change Agents project wishes to bring the academic sector and the NGO ecosystem closer to one another and generate deeper understanding between these important stakeholders, allowing us to advance a more collaborative, inclusive and participatory practice of design, while recognizing the already existing knowledge of activists and various stakeholders.
Project partner:
Moholy-Nagy Universität für Kunst und Design (MOME)
Universität der Künste Berlin (UDK)
Estnische Akademie der Künste Tallin (EKA)
Freie Universität Bozen (UNIBZ)
Shenkar Hochschule für Technik, Design und Kunst (Shenkar)
Elisava, Barcelona Schule für Design und Ingenieurwesen (ELISAVA)
NGO-Partner in Berlin:
Democratic Society
https://www.demsoc.org/who