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).
Ursula studied Textile & Surface Design at Weissensee Academy of Art Berlin and Hiroshima City University in Japan. In 2012 she was selected for the European Textiles Trainee Programme of the Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg, the Netherlands, where she developed her graduation project.
Her interests include textile history and material science, the incorporation of textile-related practices from various cultural backgrounds and the fusion of ancient techniques with physical computing.
From 2013-2014 she was part of the project UHCI-Universal Home Control Interfaces focussing on Electronic and Smart Textiles in the domestic environment, before leaving Design Research Lab in October 2014.