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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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Virtual Colloquium: A.I. dis/order
Designmethoden 2 / Virtual Colloquium
Summer semester 2025, Berlin University of the Arts
A.I. dis/order
In this lecture series and interactive sessions, we will explore the latest developments of generative A.I., its social and cultural implications as well as its political stance in cooperation with the Junge Akademie at the AdK. International speakers from different parts of the world – from design and art to tech and activism – will shed light on artificial intelligence, its biases, its dreams, its aesthetics, while we explore in interactive sessions through rapid, speculative prototypes our critical viewpoints in a material form.
Co-chairs: Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost & Žarko Dumičić
Start date: 24.04.2025, 09:00 – 10:30 a.m., online on Zoom
Colloquium Time: Thursdays, 09:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Colloquium Venue: Zoom (online classes) & Design Research Lab at UdK (in-person classes)
To register for the course, please email your details to Žarko Dumičić at .
THE LINK TO JOIN THE ZOOM SESSIONS: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82954605489?pwd=VP3XBDzVogeuQtLWaXbWEFpm9ObxiQ.1
The schedule this semester:
| Date | Guest talk | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 07.05.2025 | Xenia Klinge | Design Research Lab |
| 15.05.2025 | Clara Herrmann | Zoom |
| 05.06.2025 | Sadhli Roomy | Zoom |
| 12.06.2025 | Tiara Roxanne | Zoom |
| 26.06.2025 | Kira Xonorika | Zoom |
| 03.07.2025 | Maya Indira Ganesh | Zoom |