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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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Daniel is a researcher in the Design Research eXploration(DRX) team at DFKI. His work focuses on the intersection of language technology, large language models (LLMs), and design. Daniel wrote his Ph.D. at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) in natural language processing (NLP) on automatic text summarization and dataset curation. Before his Ph.D. he obtained a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in software development and technology from ITU focusing on artificial intelligence and data-driven algorithms. Coming from a traditional computer science background, Daniel has a profound interest in programming, computation, and in more recent years, machine learning and pragmatic software solutions. Daniel has throughout his career worked in close contact with industry, emphasizing its challenges and large potential impact on the real world.