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).
Paula Kassenaar is a master student Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology. She also did her bachelor degree in Eindhoven. For the past year she has focussed on combining textiles and electronics in interactive products. For over two years she has designed and built various pieces of interactive furniture such as her bachelor graduation project Jakob; an interactive sofa that lets you record sound messages in a playful way.
Paula joined the laboratories in May 2010. She is an intern for three months with Katharina Bredies, working on unconventional interfaces in textile.