Business & Design Lab

Global phenomena like climate change and the covid-19 pandemic are challenging the way we design for and organize our society and the economy. At the Business and Design Lab, we investigate and experiment new ideas in the intersection between artistic and economic research in order to understand and re-imagine our contemporary societal challenges.

Research

Business & Design Lab offer an inter- and transdisciplinary platform for a critical and grounded investigation of the relations between design, technology and the economy.

Digitization, participation, artificial intelligence - areas of research at BDL

Many different voices have pointed at the lack of imagination in the public sphere and at our current inability to design…

Research project/group

AI and Design

Research project/group

Transforming the city for play: Hacking and co-crafting urban interventions

Research

More research projects within Business and Design Lab

The research projects within Business and Design Lab gather researchers from several different disciplines.

News – 13 December 2021

Research funding for projects on AI and surveillance

A major interdisciplinary research project led by HDK-Valand has been granted almost a million euros to study AI-based…

Under the lead of Director Elena Raviola, BDL has redefined its purpose.

BDL is opening up for research in AI and technology.

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Interview with Elena Raviola

Research and education in collaboration

We experiment with new approaches in the relation between research and education. And with a pedagogy that benefits from the design process, its artistic and exploratory devices and tools. There is a strong bond with the Master's programme in Embedded Design.

Master's programme in Embedded Design