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The Design Research Lab is a laboratory for experimental design and research reflecting on the digital society. Through playful interventions, critical making and collaborative reasoning we investigate possible futures. As a platform and network, we are deeply involved with the requirements and policies needed for an inclusive and sustainable development of the digital society from a design perspective.
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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De-Routing App and Platform
Experimental Approach to Local Surroundings
De-Routing is an explorative workshop concept and application that highlight walking as a tool to explore neighborhoods. With the application, local surroundings can be approached in an experimental and explorative way. Additionally a change of perspective is taking place through a specific focus like “barriers”, “thresholds” or “gatherings”. The insights are collected in a collaborative map in which barriers, contact and conflict zones are marked and discussed. The application was developed within the Community Now? project.