Events

The purpose of the workshop  “Shaping Sand-Heuristic Interactive modelling” is to explore the potentials of human-machine interaction in a cooperative learning environment for artists, architects...

Digital design methods impact architectural structures. To contribute new impulses to Computational Design, we are focusing on a central obstacle in current digital design for...

We present multiple digital artefacts which emerged first stage of construction of a digital Primer. These include: touchscreen&HTML5-based prototype; e-ink screen (currently broken) with touchless...

Searching for new teaching concepts for basics in structural mechanics for architects and designer, we have developed a series of prototypical digital tools using augmented...

The use of virtual reality technologies in combination with digital building and city models is powerful approach to experience architecture in a direct way by...

The project INTERPART explores the potential of online services and platforms in participatory processes of urban planning. In aimes at increasing the democratic and social...

‘Production Possibilities of the Maker Culture’ is an interdisciplinary research group at the UdK Berlin / Weizenbaum Institute. Hosting researchers with backgrounds in design, art,...

With the summer term 2019, the Berlin Open Lab is ready to start work with exciting projects and events. It brings together researchers and ideas from different fields in order to enable new forms of design. Berlin Open Lab is an experimental space for transdisciplinary research projects at the intersection of technology, society and arts.

How does the practice of pleating differ from other textile fabrication techniques, and how could pleated electronic textile sensing structures applied in body-area networks inform...

An interdisciplinary group of students of the UdK Berlin and the TU Berlin planned, designed, and constructed a small PlusEnergy living unit as part of...

For the new concert hall (Konzerthaus im Werksviertel), to be opened in 2022 in Munich, the Audio Communication Group has advised the Munich building authorities...

This research project explores how personal data in the fields of communication, health or living could be visualized on a Smart Material Display. Modular folding...

What if we could automatically vote with an artificially intelligent face scan in a voting machine? Smile to Vote simulates exactly this – and thus...

The thermal model house presents a mobile test facility, which is able to reproduce different phenomena of building air-conditioning within physical experiments. Due to its...

In times where ownership is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a powerful few, there has been a renewed interest in the concept of the...

What role does hacking and making play in current West African context? Can the re-writing of technological modes, machines and materials, or the convergence of...

While long being niche technologies for decision-making powers in the tech world, period tracking apps have evolved to being part of the current default set...

In this course, we are therefore focusing on this combination of Wearables and Machine Learning. We are aiming to offer the participants a full-framed knowledge base about the methods that form the current state of the art and give them the possibility to understand their application through practical exercises. Based on this, the participants will work on an Interdisciplinary Quick and Dirty Prototyping with different materials and techniques.

The Berlin Open Lab is hosting the next VR Berlin Meetup. Speakers: Christoph Gengnagel, professor for Structural Design and Engineering at UdK Berlin and co-founder...

The Berlin Open Lab is cohosting this years Design Modelling Symposium. About Spatial Design is a fundamental practice in humans’ shaping of the material world....

Do artificially intelligent systems reflect a certain gender, race or class? What and whose politics is currently being consolidated in algorithmic culture? 

As AI finds...

Künstliche Intelligenz frisst Arbeitsplätze. KI-Systeme, die bei Unternemen, Regierungen oder Verwaltungen Entscheidungen treffen, sind „Weapons of Math Destruction“. Sie diskriminieren Frauen und Minderheiten, weil die...

Ob Carsharing, Leihräder oder Taxi Apps – mit der vernetzten Mobilität werden zahlreiche Daten der Nutzer*innen verarbeitet. Prof. Dr. Max von Grafenstein, Timo Jakobi, Kevin...

Privacy is the room in which ideas develop, where you can reflect on those ideas whenever you choose. This room is not only physical, but...

How do the digital tools and services that we use each day differ from each other? Why does it matter? In this workshop a simple...

The Open Materials symposium displays the outcomes of a day of hands-on workshops – of disassembling electronic waste to discuss lifecycles of electro-active materials, cooking...

Die Erschließung und Verwendung neuer, CO2 neutraler Ressourcen für den Einsatz im urbanen Raum, ist die Herausforderung, vor der wir als Architekten und Designer heutzutage...

"Wie müssen Räume beschaffen sein, in denen mit digitalen Technologien experimentiert wird, diese erfahren und weiterentwickelt werden? Wie können wir Zugang zu und Wissen um...

From 24th to 26th February 2020 the Department for Structural Design and Engineering (KET) carried out an Arduino Workshop with master students of the UdK...

What do a space solar panel, a drug delivery tool for advanced ovarian cancer, and a dress worn by Lady Gaga have in common? They...

As part of the ECDF project ‘Pleated Electronic Textiles’, the Wearable Computing team is currently working together with four textile and fashion design researchers developing...

About 45 people are currently working in the Berlin Open Lab, doing exciting projects on wearables and smart textiles, on AI and ethics, on dancing,...

Within the Politics of the Machines conference series – following Copenhagen (2018) and Beirut (2019), the third POM conference took place as a hybrid event...

Zwei Tage zur Klimakrise, alternativen Wegen des Denkens und Handelns – und was wir selbst tun können. Mit Akteur*innen aus Initiativen für eine neues Verständnis von...

Deeply entangled in an inescapable epoch of the seemingly ordinary Anthropocene, the need to radically reassemble relationships of ecologies and technologies is more vital than...

This symposium explored textile technologies and construction methods to design, fabricate and analyse three-dimensional materiality in electronic textiles and electromagnetic engineering. The focus was on...

Erhalte spannende Einblicke in den Beruf von Designforscherinnen und erfahre, welche Möglichkeiten die Kombination von Kleidung und Technik ermöglicht! Du hast ein Interesse für Mode...

25 projects were shown during a public pop-up DRAFTS Student Exhibit on 13 May 2022, bringing together BA and MA students from six different universities...

International Conference (hybrid | on-site and livestream) Registration 27.05.2022: As the conference on-site has a limited capacity please register here Program / Day 1 – 27.05.2022...

During two weeks, stage design students of the UdK were invited to create their own channeling room to permit the communication between the scientist Emma...

What is the relation between design and conflict? From armed conflicts and environmental strifes, to anti-gender regimes and increasingly socially disrupted societies – what role...

Within the research project Social Wear various research groups of the DFKI are working together on the development of technologies for body-oriented sensors and actuators. The...

Seminar im WS 2022/23 » procedural affairs« ist der Versuch, Gestaltung als prozesshafte und performative Kulturtechnik zwischen menschlichen und nicht-menschlichen Agenten aufzufassen. Gestaltungswissen kann dabei...

Multi Translation Talk, workshop and performance with Anani Sanouvi Berlin University of the Arts Designtransfer Einsteinufer 43 10587 Berlin Transmedia artist, host-sentinel of visible and...

Nach dem ersten, Pandemie-bedingt rein digitalen BOL Symposium vor anderthalb Jahren findet nun das zweite BOL Symposium statt, diesmal in Präsenz und in Kooperation mit...

UdK; Weizenbaum Institute Berlin; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm; University of Copenhagen, Art as Forum; Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts In this...

Deeply entangled in a crisis of the Anthropocene, the need to radically reassemble relationships of ecologies and technologies is more vital than ever – to...

The workshop ‘Contextual Interactions – Machine Learning for Designers’ is a compact course offered by the UdK Berlin that aims to explore new forms of intelligent sensor-based...

Der Girl´s Day 2023 beginnt bei uns mit einer kurzen Einführung, in der du die Arbeit des DFKI InTex und das Berlin Open Lab der...

Vernacular Computationalities: Cosmogony as a New Paradigm for Design Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou, Founder L’Africaine d’architecture/ WoeLab Lomé Digital Sovereignty Conceptualised from a Global South Perspective...