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 joined on Thursday, 15.05.2025 at 9h on Zoom as part of the Virtual Colloquium by Clara Herrmann for a presentation titled “All Roads Lead to AI Anarchies”. How can anarchies unfold and perform? What art works, radical imaginations and communities emerge? What poetic and political spaces are needed? An introduction to the project „AI Anarchies“ by JUNGE AKADEMIE.
Clara Herrmann is the director of the JUNGE AKADEMIE, the international residency program of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin with scholarships for all artistic disciplines in Berlin and Italy / Olevano (Romano). She studied literature, law and cultural management in Constance, Berlin, London and Frankfurt (Oder). She developed the programs Mensch Maschine and AI Anarchies for the JUNGE AKADEMIE. Herrmann was co-founder and coordinator of the Digital Solitude program at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, from 2015-19. She was a research assistant at the Chair of Cultural Management at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). She is co-editor of the publications Der digitale Kulturbetrieb (2019), Im Schlangenhain. Nella Serpentara (2024) and The AI Anarchies Book (2024) and a member of the GKFD’s Advisory Board for Artistic Research as well as co-spokesperson for the German International Residency Program Working Group (adir). For the JUNGE AKADEMIE she curated the exhibitions with performance program “What Matters” (2022) together with Arkadij Koscheew, “Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings” (2023) and “The Breath of a House is the Sound of Voices Within” (2024) together with Tomke Braun. Clara Herrmann lives and works in Berlin.
Please find below the Zoom link to join, which will be the same for all online sessions this semester:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82954605489?pwd=VP3XBDzVogeuQtLWaXbWEFpm9ObxiQ.1
Meeting-ID: 829 5460 5489
Kenncode: 079532