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The Design Research Lab is a network of people, organisations, and non-human agents engaged at the intersection of technologies, materials, and social practices. Our aim is to design socially and ecologically sustainable tools, spaces, and knowledge that support people’s participation in a digital society – based on common principles of inclusiveness and respect for the planet. This puts the basic democratic right to take part in the digital sphere into practice. We start our research from individual lifeworlds and the needs of minoritized groups, beyond consumer majorities.
We are an interdisciplinary team of designers, researchers, tech-enthusiasts and critical thinkers from Berlin University of the Arts, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, as well as Einsteincenter Digital Future (ECDF).
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MYOW Field Test
Apply for Make your own Wearables Field Test
MYOW aims to bring through digitally enriched service-spaces designers, makers, service providers and manufacturers together. We developed a digital platform that enables users to make their own textile wearable technologies, developing an idea into a finished product without needing prior specialist knowledge. Within a toolkit the participants will realize this wearable during the field test.
* Competition platform opens April 15th 2021
* Create your project idea or collaborate with others at the MYOW-Portal
* Digital Opening Event: 22nd of April 2021, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
* The winning team (3 to 4 participants) will be able to realize their wearable idea during April and May 2021. You are supported by experts. MYOW supplies all materials and tools
* Closing Event: 20th of May 2021
Incentives
* Realization of your textile wearable
* Plant your own tree in Berlin
* MYOW-Certificate
To register please apply here until 30th of march 2021.