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).
Michael studies Product and Interaction Design at the Weißensee School of Art in Berlin. Besides enjoying the sophisticated coffee machine, his interest in physical computing, augmented reality and experimental interfaces in general lead him to join the Design Research Lab in 2012. He works on Skintimacy and Sustainable Awareness Tools for Alexander Müller and Florian Sametinger respectively.