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 Lindenberg, born 1978, is a trained computer engineer, and studied Visual Communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Aachen and Interaction Design at the University of the Arts Berlin.
From 2008 to 2010 he has worked as a PhD candidate and scientific researcher at the Design Research Lab, where he was engaged in the field of mobile communication and sustainability.