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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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“The Freedom to Be Free” Student Exhibition at the ECDF
The Freedom to Be Free
UdK Student Exhibition
We are excited to invite you to the UdK Designmethoden student exhibition “The Freedom to Be Free” at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF). The exhibition will be open from the beginning of March until the end of May 2025.
DATES: 03.03.-30.05.2025
PLACE: Einstein Center Digital Future, Wilhelmstraße 67, 10117 Berlin
To visit the exhibition in the coming months, please RSVP with Mr. Friedrich Schmidgall at .
In the exhibition at the Einstein Center Digital Future, Berlin University of the Arts design students explore, critique, and reflect on the topic of freedom in today’s society. The exhibition consists of student-generated A.I. imagery, a selection of student-designed “critical machines” prototypes, as well as artworks.
The A.I. images are based on prompts inspired by the themes and topics discussed in lectures and reflect on how technology can shape our worldview through visual patterns, stereotypes and biases generated by the algorithms. Students also designed “critical machines” as conceptual rapid prototypes out of inexpensive materials with speculative, imaginary, and satirical functions that critique and comment on the state of freedom in contemporary society. Furthermore, several artworks were also created that continue to explore the theme of freedom from unique and thought-provoking perspectives. We look forward to seeing you at the ECDF!