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).
Nicole Kengyel was working as a Programmer and User Interface Designer before she started her studies in Design at the Köln International School of Design. After two years in Cologne and another in Paris she finished her Bachelor’s in 2008.
During her studies she mainly focused on Service Design concepts aiming at the improvement of human relationships.
At the Design Research Lab she is responsible for the follow-up project of “Woman’s Phone,” called “G – gender inspired technology.” She evaluates and visualizes user-generated content of “cultural probes” and “prototypes.”