We are a research unit from Munich, Germany. Combining „Social Design“ (MA) and „Politics and Technology“ (MSc), our research focuses on the intersection of the impact of new technology on society and the potential of design methods. Since early 2019, we are working together on the design research project DIGITAL DEMOCRACY.
Public spaces in the internet, that are, for instance, generated by social media plattforms, have brought many advantages to society. However, also new challenges emerged. Because of the global scale of digital public spaces, issues can become quite complex and their impact on society unforeseeable. To overcome challenges for democratic societies like misinformation or privacy issues in digital public spaces, we invent methods to rethink the status quo by speculating about possible futures. Using speculative design as a method we support creating critical design artifacts in interdisciplinary workshop-teams.