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 EU-funded Change Agents project invites you to project presentations and discussions.
Exploring and establishing genuine collaborations that meet the real needs of communities through design: The Change Agents project dives into creating long-lasting partnerships between various social agents, activists and institutions within the realm of social design education and practice. This event will feature invited guests from design academia and practice alongside representatives from civil society and intermediaries, to examine productive ways of collaborating across these diverse fields. Together, we aim to harness the expertise of change agents for meaningful and impactful results.
Come along for inspiring talks, pizza and drinks!
Please register until April 16th via mail with Marie Munz: .