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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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Blended Prototyping
The interdisciplinary research project Blended Prototyping investigates new prototyping approaches for mobile applications. The research revolves around a rapid prototyping tool that creates mixed-fidelity prototypes from paper-based design. The approach follows the basic idea to allow the creation of mobile prototypes in early design stages as quickly and easily as possible, but at the same time as much complex as necessary, to keep it applicable in later development stages as well. Software engineering and Design Research methods are applied conjunctively to develop mobile user interfaces according to the user’s needs.
Blended Prototyping, a collaborative project of Benjamin Bähr (Telekom Innovation Laboratories) and Stephanie Neumann (Berlin University of the Arts) is a partial project of »Rethinking Prototyping«.