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).
Elizabeth Calderón Lüning received her diploma in political science from the Free University of Berlin and has several years of experience in research, consulting and teaching in topics such as urban participation, civic-public partnerships and community wireless networks. She is the co-founder of the Neighbourhood Academy in the Prinzessinnengarten. Her research interests focus on the connections between digitization processes and the development of urban spaces. Elizabeth joined the Design Research Lab in 2018.