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).
Max studied European Ethnology and Gender Studies at Humboldt-Universität and is currently doing a masters programme in Sociology at Technische Universität Berlin. His main interests include sociotechnical relations, practice theory and qualitative methods. He joined the Design Research Lab in May 2017 to work on user research.