D-LAB

The digital transformation is real – and is fundamentally reshaping our everyday life, and as such, aesthetics, culture and experience. However, in its scale, scope, and complexity, the digital transformation will be unlike anything we have witnessed before, but one thing is clear: New studies and perspectives on the concepts, components and implications of this transformation – and its design – are required. The mission of the Bauhaus Design Laboratory (D–LAB) – a research platform of the Professorship of Design Theory and Design Research – is, therefore, to anticipate these changes, and to explore them from a critical point of view.

Not bound by the methodologies and methods of a single domain, the D–LAB is characterized by a cross-disciplinary perspective: It fosters multiple approaches of designers, engineers, planners, philosophers, social scientists and historians, while addressing new epistemological, experimental and empirical dimensions of research. This includes new skills and competences, but also entirely new concepts of the autonomy and authorship, aiming at sustainable solutions for a more responsible and inclusive future. As such, the D–LAB is as open for collaboration with academic partners and with industrial stakeholders, cultural institutions and individual participants. 

In what follows, we present the different activities (connecting the different dimensions of research, teaching and transfer) that are being pursued at the D–LAB and/or are associated with it.