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).
Jan-Erik Stange was born in Kaltenkirchen, Germany. He finished his bachelor degree in Industrial Design in Kiel in 2008. To gain some practical experience he worked as an intern at Human Interface Design in Hamburg and Smart Design in San Francisco. In 2009 he started a Master’s program in Interface Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. He joined Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in 2009 as a research assistant.