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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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Bodo came to product design with a background in sociology and a degree in horticultural science. He graduated from UdK Berlin, where he specialized in interactive systems. At DRLab he has worked on projects in the fields of New Work, Open Innovation, Usable Security and IOT. He is responsible for the concept, planning and realization of Berlin Open Lab and manages the digital prototyping tools.
In addition to his position as a design researcher at DRLab Bodo works as a freelance interaction and product designer. His focus is on human-centered design and the possibilities of new digital manufacturing tools like 3D-printers. He is passionate about speculative and fictional design methods and loves to explore the interface between tangible things and digital technologies.