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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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Interaction and Sensors
‘Interaction and Sensors’ is a multidisciplinary research project funded by the BMBF within the scope of three ‘Forschungscampus’ projects developing new technologies for smart homes. Several partners from research, education and development like Deutsche Telekom AG, TU Berlin and ART+COM work on technologies that innovate interactions and sensors.
The Design Research Lab concentrates on the communication in between roommates and family members and develops prototypes to support the everyday interaction at home. Based on workshops, interviews, discussion rounds and cultural probes, the DRLab explores in cooperation with other partners how roommates communicate and organize themselves at home.