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).
Blanca is an architect graduated in 2012 from the Technical School of Architecture of Seville and currently based in Berlin. With a strong interest in the construction of imageries and meaning of the city and its public spaces, she seeks to explore architecture through a wider perspective. Currently she is studying an M.A. program in «Art in Context» in the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) with a main focuses on artistic practice in the public space and art as a research practice. Since January 2016 she works in the Design Research Lab collaborating in the the EU-funded project MAZI (CAPS/H2020).