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).
Kathrin Vent joined the T-Labs in November 2008, where she works as an interactions designer on the Web site “designresearchnetwork.”
She studied Product Design with a focus on system design at the University of Kassel and at the Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny de València in Spain. Her final thesis dealt with communication and knowledge production in social networks.
Before that, she completed foundation studies in the social sciences at the University of Kassel, did a two-year apprenticeship as a “Host of Communication,” and gained overseas professional experience as an au pair in London for a year.