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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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From Theory to Action: Addressing Climate Change Through Design
In the context of this course, new formats of knowledge communication on the topic of agriculture and its adaptation to climate change will be developed in hybrid co-design together with students from the University of Kara, Togo. The use of design methods will enable new approaches to develop innovative solutions to real challenges. This intercultural collaboration opens up different perspectives on the topic and promotes an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas.
Start 8.11.2023, 12 p.m. @ Universität der Künste Berlin, Einsteinufer 43, Room 217
Final presentation 14.02.2024 @ same place and time
During the semester every Wednesday from 12 to 2 pm at the Universität der Künste Berlin, Einsteinufer 43, Room 217
Registration for UdK students until 27th of October 2023 via mail to Friederike Fröbel