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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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To hand out arrival documents to asylum seekers in Germany a mobile pop-up station was being designed, that compiles all necessary information into one printed „Ankommensnachweis“ (proof of arrival). The pop-up station includes several elements like devices to request biometrical data or read documents that can be set up in different locations. A graphical user interface leads the staff members and asylum seekers through the process. The setup and process were being developed after some field studies and observations of the actual situation in Berlin. As a result, the pop-up station combines all steps of a complex process in one workstation.