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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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Berlin OpenLab
Berlin Open Lab will be an experimental space for transdisciplinary research projects at the intersection of technology, society and design. It will be open to various disciplines and partners, open in terms of learning and teaching environments as well as providing free access to knowledge.
Being based at the College of Architecture, Media and Design at the University of the Arts Berlin collaborating with the Technical University, Berlin Open Lab will combine the critical and reflective practice of an arts university with engineering and transdisciplinary methods. It is part of a strong research network together with the Einstein Center for Digital Future (ECDF) and the Weizenbaum Institute for the networked society fostering continuous exchange with universities, research institutes, governments, civil society and businesses.