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).
Ramyah joined the Design Research Lab as a PhD student in August 2015 in the ArcinTex ETN project. Her research interest lies in exploring Tangible Interaction Design for e-Textiles and she is curious about the possibilities presented by textiles for re-shaping our interactions and understanding of the digital.