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).
Tinka Molkenthin was born in Berlin. She studies Product Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, focusing on Exhibition Design. Tinka Molkenthin joined Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in March 2009 and is working for the project “G – Gender Inspired Technology.” She is responsible for documentation, analyses and visualization of research data derived from “cultural probes” and “prototypes.” She will finish her studies in 2009, with the concept of an exhibition about gender, design and the project “G.”