We
The Design Research Lab is a network of people, organisations, and non-human agents engaged at the intersection of technologies, materials, and social practices. Our aim is to design socially and ecologically sustainable tools, spaces, and knowledge that support people’s participation in a digital society – based on common principles of inclusiveness and respect for the planet. This puts the basic democratic right to take part in the digital sphere into practice. We start our research from individual lifeworlds and the needs of minoritized groups, beyond consumer majorities.
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).
Team
Make
Projects
Stuff
Resources
Mandy Meissner
Alumni
Mandy Meissner joined Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in 2007, where she works as a student worker. She studied Interface Design at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and is currently finishing her studies in Interaction Design at the Berlin University of the Arts.
In addition, her interest focuses on future scenarios in interaction design and explores poetic aspects of technology. At Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, she is involved in developing “MAPS” and a “Women’s Phone.”