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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).

Head of Design Research Lab

Prof. Dr. Gesche
Joost

Assistance / Project Management

Marie
Munz

Senior Researcher

Dr. phil. Eleftherios
Avramidis

Senior Researcher

Dr. Michelle
Christensen

Senior Researcher

Dr. Florian
Conradi

Senior Researcher

Dr. phil. Bianca
Herlo

Senior Researcher

Dr. Daniel
Irrgang

Senior Researcher

Dr. phil. Andreas
Unteidig

Researcher

Philipp von
Becker

Researcher

Malte
Bergmann

Researcher

Elizabeth Calderón
Lüning

Researcher

Marie
Dietze

Researcher

Hannah
Fischer

Researcher

Rahel
Flechtner

Researcher

Friederike
Fröbel

Researcher

Emilia
Knabe

Researcher

Katharina
Lorenz

Researcher

Rashid
Owoyele

Researcher

Bodo
Pahlke

Researcher

Christian
Pflug

Researcher

Sandra
Stark

Researcher

Daniela
Wittmann

Researcher

Emil
Woop

Researcher

Esther
Zahn

Student Worker

Katharina
Bellinger

Student Worker

Clara Elisabeth
Gleiß

Student Worker

Mia
Grote

Student Worker

Tomma Suki
Hinrichsen

Student Worker

Zeynep
Keskin

Student Worker

Jeanne
Mandaroux

Student Worker

Katharina
Schmidt

Student Worker

Ben
Siegler

Student Worker

Hannah
Tatjes

Student Worker

Alina
Slomkowski

Student Worker

Joanna
Wilkans

Student Worker

Lukas
Wirsching

Alumni

Gameli
Adzaho

Veronika
Aumann

Alexa
Beckmann

Marie Rosa
Beuthel

Dr. Tom
Bieling

Sanket
Bindle

Nina
Blume

Stephanie
Braune

Dr. phil. Katharina
Bredies

Samantha
Briehn

Lea
Brumsack

Sandra
Buchmüller

Benjamin
Bähr

Agata
Böhm

Dr. Rosan
Chow

Andrea
Clemens

Blanca Dominguez
Cobreros

Peter
Conradie

Dr. phil. Mario
Daniels

Linda
Debray

Tilmann
Dehnhard

Michael
Ertel

Chiara
Esposito

Eric
Esser

Esther
Feiertag

Marc
Ferrer

Mads Nygaard
Folkmann

Erik
Freydank

Jochen
Fuchs

Özden
Gelgeç

Johannes
Geng

Christin
Gierke

Benjamin
Gladki

Jan
Gohlke

Ulrike
Gollner

Ramyah
Gowrishankar

Dr. Berit
Greinke

Jana
Grewy

Rike
Grill

Stefan
Göllner

Nicole
Gütl

Susann
Hamann

Adam
Harvey

Christine
Hausen

Paul
Heinicker

Dr. Tincuta
Heinzel

Dr.-Ing. Fabian
Hemmert

Christian
Hertlein

Susanna
Hertrich

Daniela
Hery

Lisa
Hoffmann

Steffi
Hoffrichter

Birte
Huizing

Ron
Jagodzinski

Nikita
Jerschov

Hans-Peter
Kadel

Paula
Kassenaar

Nicole
Kengyel

André
Knörig

Marie
Kochsiek

Oscar
Koller

Paul
Kolling

Nathalie
Krüger

Miriam
Lahusen

Fabricio
Lamoncha

Dr. phil. Bastian
Lange

Jaclyn
Le

Jan
Lindenberg

Matthias
Löwe

Joshua
Marr

Dr. Tiago
Martins

Julia
Mayer

Cathryn
McAnespy

Mandy
Meissner

Tinka
Molkenthin

Masoud
Morgan

Franziska
Müller

Alexander
Müller-Rakow

Severin
Neumann

Stephanie
Neumann

Leonie-Marie
Onas

Oscar
Palou

Riccardo
Pascotto

Hannah
Perner-Wilson

Nora
Perseke

Paola
Pierri

Michael
Pogorzhelskiy

Lorenz
Raab

Dr. phil. Thomas
Ramge

Lutz
Reiter

Anke
Riemer

Susanne
Ritzmann

Sara Diaz
Rodriguez

Konrad
Röpke

Dr. phil. Florian
Sametinger

Sarah
Schipper

Birga
Schlottmann

Corinna
Schmidt

Dr. phil. Jennifer
Schubert

Marie Luise
Schulz

Max
Schäth

Franziska
Schüffler

Paul
Seidler

Jojo
Shone

Ananda
Siml

Juan Pablo Garcia
Sossa

Jan-Erik
Stange

Daniel
Stepanov

Jan
Tepe

Kathrin
Vent

Lilo
Viehweg

Pauline
Vierne

Ursula
Wagner

Ebba Fransén
Waldhör

Samuel
Weiss

Lisa
Weiss

Fabian
Werfel

Julia
Werner

Max
Westbrock

Reto
Wettach

Aaron
Winter

Götz
Wintergerst

Hendrik
Wittemeier

Anne
Wohlauf

Sebastian
Wolf

Dr. Stefanie
Wuschitz

Mohit
Yadav

Jelena
Zach

Cécile
Zahorka

Josefine
Zeipelt

Youyuan
Zhao

Inci-Ana
Zohrap

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Bericht zum Designmethoden-Kompaktkurs “Critical Zones. Gestaltungsspielräume in der kritischen Lage unserer Erde“

Digital Sovereignty

Social Design

Practicing Sovereignty. Means of Digital Involvement

Digital Sovereignty

Miadé – Local Community Networks in Lomé, Togo

Digital Sovereignty

Social Design

PowerGrasp

Material Interactions

DDAI – Design-driven Artificial Intelligence

Digital Sovereignty

Material Interactions

MYOW – Make your own Wearables

Material Interactions

INTERPART – Intercultural spaces of participation

Digital Sovereignty

Social Design

Critical Maker Culture

Digital Sovereignty

Material Interactions

UPLINX – Qualification on Machine Learning for Interactive Textiles

Material Interactions

BauNow @ Berlin Design Week 11.10.19 – 3.11.19 | Kulturforum Berlin

Social Design

@drlab_berlin

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26 Nov 2020

Virtual Colloquium: Denisa Kera – Algorithmic Feudalism in the Lockdowns: Sacredness, Purity and Heretics

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19 Nov 2020

Virtual Colloquium: Felix Oldenburg – The Power of Wealth. Is there a Place for Philanthropy in the Digital Age?

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12 Nov 2020

Virtual Colloquium: Daniel Irrgang – Technik als Mittel des Menschen vs. Technik als autonomes Phänomen: Im Spannungsfeld der Technik- und Medientheorie

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5 Nov 2020

Virtual Colloquium Kickoff: Gesche Joost – Between the New Dark Age and Tech Utopia

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10 Nov 2020 - 23 Feb 2021

Studio Class: Politics of Machines / Michelle Christensen & Florian Conradi

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06 Nov 2020 - 19 Feb 2021

Studio Class: Global Makerspace(s) – Critical Perspectives, Positions and Practices / Michelle Christensen & Florian Conradi

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5 Nov 2020 – 25 Feb 2021

Virtual Colloquium: Between the New Dark Age and Tech-Utopia

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26 Oct 2020 – 30 Oct 2020

Compact Course: Dressing for the Surveillance Age - Adversarial design

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5 Oct 2020 – 9 Oct 2020

Kompaktkurs: Critical Zones. Gestaltungsspielräume in der kritischen Lage unserer Erde, Dr. Daniel Irrgang

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25 Sep 2020 – 27 Sep 2020

Conference: Data Cities. Smart Technologies, Tracking & Human Rights, Disruption Network Lab

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Voraita, S. & Herlo, B. & Vogelsang, (2020), Voraita, S. & Herlo, B. & Vogelsang, A (2020). Matters of Communication. Formen und Materialitäten gestalteter Kommunikation

Publications

Irrgang, D., (2020), Vilém Flussers Black Box, in: Black Boxes. Versiegelungskontexte und Öffnungsversuche. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, eds. Eckhard Geitz, Christian Vater and Silke Zimmer-Merkle (Berlin et al.: De Gruyter, 2020)

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Gallico, T. and Joost, G. , (2020), Inciting Engagement and Collaboration Through Interaction Design: An Urban Transport Systems Digitisation Case Study

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Christensen, M., Conradi, F., (2020), Krise des Seins

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Christensen, M. & Conradi, F., (2020), Algorithmic Aristocracy, Biased Biometrics and Compromised Code

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Dietze, M. & Wuschitz, S., (2020), Strategien queer-feministischer Hack-Kollektive

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Bellinger, K., (2020), Do-It-Yourself / Do-It-Together Masks

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Herlo, B. & Joost, G., (2019), Design for civil society. The model project Citizens connect neighborhoods – community development harnesses digital transformation

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Herlo, B., (2019), Social Living Labs. Co-designing public and political deliberation

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Herlo, B., Pierri, P., and Schubert, J. , (2019), Civic Design Through the Lens of Social Living Labs

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Dietze, M. & Kochsiek, M., (2019), DIY Intimate Tech

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Christensen, M. & Conradi, F., (2019), Politics of Things

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Reiter, L., (2019), mazi-princess [Source code]

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Fröbel, F; Avramidis E., Joost G, (2019), Workshop on Wearables and Machine Learning: Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Αpproaches on Τextile Τechnology

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Gaved, M., Calderón Lüning, E., Unteidig, A. et al. , (2019), Power, roles and adding value: reflecting on the challenges of bridging across research and action on an international community networking project

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Irrgang, D., Hadler, F., and Soiné, A. (eds.), (2019), Interface Critique no. 2: Navigating the Human

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Wuschiz, S. , (2019), Feminist Hackerspaces: When the Private gets Political

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Christensen, M. & Conradi, F., (2019), Hacking Body Politics – Tackling the Technical Tropes

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Bieling, Tom (Ed.) , (2019), Gender (&) Design: Positionen zur Vergeschlechtlichung in Gestaltungskulturen

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Bieling, Tom & Joost, Gesche, (2019), Gestaltung und Verantwortung: Positionsbestimmung einer sozialverantwortlichen Technikentwicklung

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Marie Luise Schulz

Alumni

Marie joined the Design Research Lab in 2016.

Her wide-ranging interests and curiosity brought her to train and work as a fashion seamstress, jewellery designer and office manager, to then being employed in international advertising business for several years.

Marie supports the research groups 2 and 8 of the Weizenbaum Institut in all organisational and administrative matters.

https://weizenbaum-institut.de/forschung/fg2/

https://weizenbaum-institut.de/forschung/fg8/

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Bericht zum Designmethoden-Kompaktkurs “Critical Zones. Gestaltungsspielräume in der kritischen Lage unserer Erde“

Practicing Sovereignty. Means of Digital Involvement

Miadé – Local Community Networks in Lomé, Togo

PowerGrasp

DDAI – Design-driven Artificial Intelligence

MYOW – Make your own Wearables

INTERPART – Intercultural spaces of participation

Critical Maker Culture

UPLINX – Qualification on Machine Learning for Interactive Textiles

BauNow @ Berlin Design Week 11.10.19 – 3.11.19 | Kulturforum Berlin

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