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).
We are seeking a student assistant with an interest in clothing concepts in a social context and the connection between clothing research and data science for a seven-month period beginning Feb. 1, 2022. The scope of work is 40 hours per month.
In the BMBF research project ‘InnoTexGes’, the multi-layered connections of clothing to the cultural, economic and social spheres of society are investigated. For this purpose, primary data from excellently preserved clothing finds are collected in three different historical contexts and the data sets are methodically evaluated in a novel way and mathematically structured.
The project is affiliated with the Design Research Lab, an international research institute for design science at the Chair of Design Research (Prof.Dr. Gesche Joost) at the Berlin University of the Arts. We work in the areas of design methodology and theory, on participatory and user-centered design, experimental interfaces and much more.
You will independently support the project team in building, content managing and maintaining a website as well as in external communication and creating and integrating new articles. Ideally, you already have experience working with WordPress and are interested in web content management and journalistic activities.
If you enjoy working in interdisciplinary teams, have a confident command of English, and have the ability to work independently, we look forward to receiving your application by November 30, 2021.
Please send your application documents to: