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).
https://designxsustainability.dgtf.de/
The 2022 annual conference of the DGTF will therefore address key aspects of sustainability that connect to design. What and how can design contribute to sustainable development? How does the sustainability discourse change perceptions of design, in theory and practice? What impact do approaches and discourses of sustainable development have on design education and research?
The annual conference of DGTF 2022 will enable an active exchange of practical approaches, theoretical impulses and empirical findings in presentations and workshop sessions. The contributions will highlight current research and study projects as well as explore future scenarios. How can sustainability be addressed in teaching, practice and research in order to set new impulses for design work?
We are looking forward to seeing you in Kiel!
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Conference Team: Annika Frye, Andrea Augsten, Markus Köck, Christian Wölfel