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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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Daniela Wittmann has studied Clothing Technology and Textile Engineering at the University of Applied Science in Berlin. Her main focus is on technical textiles, technical textile products and smart materials. Especially the world of nanotechnology and electrospun nanofiber fascinates her.
She started her internship at the Design Research Lab for 5 months and developed together with the team a “Smart Maintenance Jacket”. After the internship she startet working as a student assistant in the research cluster “Connected Textiles”, where she is now supporting different projects with her textile realization and her processing and material skills.