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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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Lullaby Box @Living Futures
The Lullaby Box allows an easy lullaby audio recording and allocation to the region the singing person originates from. It has an integrated touch screen with recording and mapping function. The booth is a private space participants can enter in order to sing and record their favorite lullaby – one they remember best from their childhood. They then can assign the audio recording to a geographical place – were they grew up as child. The collection appears on a map that provides an overview regarding the origins of the participants. The songs can be listened to on the website of the lullaby box.
The lullabies were recorded during the Living Future Event of the Future Forum Foundation (DIZF).