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).
Joshua Marr was born in 1982 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He completed an apprenticeship as Digital Media Designer in Dresden and worked for two years in an advertising agency before beginning his studies at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in 2007. His main focuses are graphic design and typography.
He joined the Design Research Lab in 2009 to conceptualize and layout the publication of Questions, Hypotheses & Conjectures, a book following the conference Questions & Hypotheses in 2008 in Berlin. Furthermore, he supports the team in the production of print materials and video editing.