We
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).
Team
Make
Projects
Stuff
Resources
In Conversation
Eramus+ Change Agents
The Berlin pilot event within the framework of the Eramus+ Change Agents initiative took place recently at DRLab of Universität der Künste Berlin, with the attendance of all project partners – Estonian Academy of Arts, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Shenkar – Engineering. Design. Art., Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering and MOME Budapest.
Following internal partner-meetings and a workshop with Ariel Guersenzvaig / Elisava and students of HBK Braunschweig, an open event ‘In Conversation – Change Agents exploring inter-institutional collaborations’ took place, featuring presentations and a panel with guests from diverse fields:
Elizabeth Calderón Lüning (Democratic Society), Nada Bretfeld (Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus), Dr. Niklas Kossow (CityLAB Berlin), Isabell Schnalle, Paula Keilholz (thread and tits)
Off-site visits complemented the 2-day program, focusing on municipal neighborhood initiatives in the contexts of the city, such as a neighborhood walk and visit in Schöneberg at the local Stadtteil Center.
The project will run until the end of 2024 and conclude with a public conference at ELISAVA Barcelona where the results of the 2-year collaboration will be shared with the public.
// Change Agents is co-funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ program. //
