Open Lab Abend: Unsichtbare Daten sichtbar machen

The workshop combines design, technology and questions about the future, inviting you to explore new forms of human-machine interaction in a playful way.

The focus is on how data – often invisible and abstract – can be made tangible through technology, and how it influences perception, the body and our view of humanity.

Following a brief introduction to electrical engineering, human–machine interaction and approaches to ‘cyborgisation’, we will open the discussion: How are relationships with machines changing as they become increasingly embedded in the environment and the body? How does the measurement of the environment and the body affect our self-understanding? And how do we design technologies so that they meaningfully complement human needs?

In the practical session, you’ll work in small groups on your own design projects. Using the sensors provided, you’ll develop your own prototypes that translate climate data into tangible signals – such as temperature or air pressure converted into light, movement or vibration.

With the help of these prototypes, you can develop ideas for using climate data whilst reflecting on how technologies are changing our understanding of the body, perception and what it means to be human.

In this series, organised in collaboration with the Berlin Open Lab (BOL), you’ll experience design research as a vast playground for digitalisation and, through a wide variety of workshop formats, set out to discover what will define us as human beings in a digitalised future.

Work with the researchers to build digital prototypes, test AI models and explore VR worlds – and help answer some fascinating questions:

What does love mean in the age of AI and virtual realities? Can AI distinguish between pornography and art? Might AI change the way we think? And can invisible, abstract data be made visible – or even experienced through the senses?

Collaboration

The Berlin Open Lab (BOL) at the UdK Berlin brings together researchers and ideas from various fields to enable new forms of design. The Berlin Open Lab is an experimental space for transdisciplinary research projects at the intersection of technology, society and art.

Workshop leaders

-> Hannah Friederike Fischer is a product designer and design researcher. She explores participatory design approaches and qualitative research methods in the field of human–computer interaction, with a focus on smart textiles and wearable technologies for health and care. Her practice combines research and prototyping to investigate interconnected social and technological systems and to develop responsible, sustainable design solutions. She studied at art and design colleges in Berlin, Braunschweig, Dundee and Potsdam, and lives and works in Berlin.

-> Emil Woop is an interaction designer and design researcher. His research focuses on the development of novel interaction paradigms and haptic experiences through participatory design practices, soma-design methods and physical prototyping. He studied architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts and interface design at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, and lives and works in Berlin.

Information

-> Venue: Futurium Lab workshop

-> Admission: free

-> Registration is required.

-> Remaining tickets are available on the door.

-> Language of the event: German

-> Maximum number of participants: 12 people

-> The event is aimed at anyone aged 16 and over.

-> Duration: 3 hours

-> Entry requirements: no prior knowledge required

Tickets

-> You will need a free ticket for this event.

-> As places are limited, only one ticket per person can be booked.