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).
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.”