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).
Katharina studied Product Design focusing on Interaction Design at Weißensee Art College in Berlin. She joined the Design Research Lab in 2012 and was involved in several projects with a health context. She was developing and designing interfaces for people with dementia by integrating them in the design process. Currently, she is working in the innovation cluster „BeMobil“ to improve and develop the HCI in rehabilitation technologies. She is also enrolled in the project “Identity” in cooperation with Bundesdruckerei GmbH.