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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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Change Agents: New Erasmus+ Project
The project objective is to create lasting infrastructures of collaboration and to build solid bridges between different key social agents and institutional settings (higher education institutions HEIs with NGO sector) in order to help developing more sustainable practices, social sustainability by articulating epistemic tools that encourage socially conscious approaches and attitudes on the field of design. The Change Agents project aims to understand and improve innovative practices at the intersection between HEIs and other sector organisations in order to develop pilot cooperation strategies that later can be potentially embedded into educational modules. The Change Agents project wishes to bring the academic sector and the NGO ecosystem closer to one another and generate deeper understanding between these important stakeholders, allowing us to advance a more collaborative, inclusive and participatory practice of design, while recognizing the already existing knowledge of activists and various stakeholders.
Project Coordinator: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME)
Project Partners:
Berlin University of the Arts (UDK)
Estonian Academy of Arts Tallin (EKA)
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (UNIBZ)
Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art (Shenkar)
Elisava, Barcelona School of Design and Engineering (ELISAVA)
Local Partners: DemSoc (Democratic Society); Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus Berlin, Hochschule der Bildenden Künste (HBK) Braunschweig
