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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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Dear Sonnenallee
During the Nacht und Nebel-Festival in Berlin-Neukölln the installation “Dear Sonnenallee” offered passer-bys and festival visitors to publish ideas, desires and suggestions to a broader public about this street. Additionally the individual opinions are discussable via text message. The medium to hand in the opinions is our Hybrid Letterbox. The installation’s aim is a vivid dialogue about qualities and challenges of the neighborhood. Through a blog the discussion was able to continued throughout. All insights were handed over to the neighborhood management Donaustraße-Nord, which supported the installation. Special thanks to the Graffiti Research Lab Germany and the Café Schaumschläger for providing us with the technical infrastructure.