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).
Athena is currently working on her final B.A. project on “Aesthetics of Security” in Visual Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts. In her design projects she approaches topics such as climate change, borders and discrimination through graphic design and illustration.
Since November 2020 Athena has been working in the research group “Inequality and Digital Sovereignty” at the Weizenbaum Institute.