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).
Hendrik studies Visual Communication at the Berlin University of Arts, in the Master’s class of Prof. Skopec. Before he joined the Design Research Lab in late 2014, he worked for about five years as a graphic designer and editor at Bertelsmann. He focuses on information graphics, editorial design and screen design — but during his work at the Lab, he loves to work on anything graphic.