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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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BauNow
Upon reaching 100 years to the Bauhaus establishment, the BauNow project brings together 25 designers and researches from Israel and Germany in cross-countries workshops that will generate joint design exhibitions in both countries. During the course of this project designers will revisit Bauhaus ideas from contemporary points of view. Multidisciplinary research groups will consist of students (Bezalel Academy Jerusalem and Anhalt University Dessau) from a variety of professional backgrounds such as architecture, product design, interactive, graphics and textile. Through creative dialogues in a multidisciplinary environment, designing objects and spaces by merging technological, aesthetic and social perspectives, the group will explore the relevance of Bauhaus values to contemporary challenges.
Bauhaus is a fascinating asset Israel and Germany share. The Baunow project aspires to make this asset into a new common language. By researching international Bauhaus ideas as well as the way they migrated and were absorbed locally in different environments we hope to raise a new design debate about the importance of the Bauhaus approach and its relevance to our societies today.
The project and courses in Israel and Germany were lead by:
(in alphabetical order) Dana Benshalom, Bianca Herlo, Natascha Meuser, Galit Shvo, Severin Wucher.
Participants: Dana Fisher, Shaul Cohen, Eden Ohana, May Kassirer, Talia Janover, Anat Sever, Ma’ayan Pesach, Tamara Efrat, Michal Evyatar, Avigail Roubini, Konstantin Krueger, Monik Danuwidjaj, Claudia Nunez, Christine Wildermann, Isel Lorena Vega Ramos, Mauricio Sosa Norena