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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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UPLINX – Qualification on Machine Learning for Interactive Textiles
The joint project UPLINX is a cross-location qualification programme for machine learning with direct practical and application orientation. The joint project will run at all DFKI sites throughout Germany with the participation of the Academy of Engineering Sciences (acatech) under the direction of the Robotic Innovation Center. In summer 2019 UPLINX will run summer schools and industry workshops at all DFKI sites. The qualification program focuses on four different topics, respective to the topics of the four different sites of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligenc throughout Germany. At the Berlin site, the Interactive Textiles department focuses on the development and implementation of application-oriented concepts of prototypical wearables around human-machine interaction with smart textiles and soft interfaces with methods of interdisciplinary and participative design research.
The teaching concept of the Berlin site is based on the following topics:
- Basics of Wearables & IoT
- Lectures, Experiment Stations, Field Visits & Expert Consultations
- Methodical design of the architecture of Wearable Applications
- Models of Machine Learning
- Development of prototypes
