Berlin Open Lab

About

Digital technologies have become an integral part of all areas of our lives and bring profound changes to society. This calls for new concepts. Berlin Open Lab 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. It has its own laboratory for digital-based production, smart material interfaces and wearable computing plus a space for design research with augmented and virtual realities.

Based at Campus Charlottenburg, Berlin Open Lab combines artistic practice with scientific research. Initiated by the University of the Arts Berlin in cooperation with the Technical University Berlin, it is home to applied research by the “Einstein Center for Digital Future”, the “Weizenbaum Institute” and the research consortium “SHAPING SPACE”. It is in close and continuous exchange with a strong international research network, including universities, research institutes, governments, civil society and companies from the creative industries.

www.berlin-open-lab.org

RESEARCH

The core of the Berlin Open Lab is its open research culture, always looking for promising researchers and matching projects that are located at the interface between arts, sciences and engineering.
If you want to participate with a project, you will find information on project formats, requirements and criteria below.

 Project Criteria

The board of the Berlin Open Lab is choosing projects on the basis of the following criteria:

  • Academic research projects and collaborations of the Departments of Architecture, Media and Design at the University of the Arts Berlin and the Technical University Berlin
  • Experimental projects with a focus on digitalization are favored
  • Transdisciplinary approaches including society, politics and / or the private sector are preferred
  • Interest in the exchange of knowledge and experience

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