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).
We are meeting on this Wednesday, 07.05. at 12pm as part of the Virtual Colloquium with Xenia Klinge for a workshop titled “AI and I – what can new tools do for me?” in-person at the Design Research Lab. With half the world automating their lives, creating Ghibli memes and personalized action figures, AI is all the hype. In this workshop, we take a breath and a step back to break down what it all means – technically, legally, ethically. Using a few common tools, we explore the state of the art and answer the question: „Is there an AI for this?“
Xenia Klinge is a computational linguist and data scientist at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI. Her professional focus lies on human-centric medical and ambient applications, as well as language and conversation in the context of health, wellbeing and culture. Further interests revolve around automatic creativity and storytelling through intelligent and/or conversational systems. She is living and working in Berlin.
How to reach the workshop space: the Design Research Lab is in the UdK building on Einsteinufer 43, 10587 Berlin. When entering through the main entrance, please take the elevator on your left side to the 2nd floor. When leaving the elevator take a U-turn and find the Room 215 titled “Design Research Lab – Seminar Room”.