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).
As part of this year’s re:publica festival, a panel discussing the different perspectives on quantum technologies titled “Integration of Quantum Principles into the Artistic Process” has been organized together with Goethe-Institut’s Studio Quantum. The panel is moderated by Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost and features Kennedy + Swan, Nadia Armstrong and Adrian Schmidt. It will take place on Tuesday, 28.05.2024 at 13:45h on Stage 3. The discussion will be in English.
From the re:publica website:
“Aligning with the festival’s theme “Who cares?” Gesche Joost (Berlin University of the Arts / Goethe-Institut), Kennedy + Swan (Studio Quantum Artists-in-Residence 2023), Nadia Armstrong (Artist / CONNECT – The Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications) and Adrian Schmidt(ITAS, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) will discuss different perspectives on quantum technologies. Former Studio Quantum artists-in-residence kennedy+swanwill share insights into the programme and current projects.
Studio Quantum is an international artist-in-residence and events programme from the Goethe-Institut. In the coming months, 8 residencies will take place in 8 different locations (Karlsruhe, Bangalore, Dublin, Lagos, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg und Rotterdam) with support of many project partners. This Autumn, a project showcase and events programme will take place in Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Studio Quantum at re:publica is supported by the Goethe-Institut and Zeitgeist Irland 24. Zeitgeist Irland 24 is an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in Germany.“
Please find more information about the event at: https://re-publica.com/de/session/integration-quantum-principles-artistic-process