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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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Dr. Rosan Chow
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I am a senior research scientist specializing in design theory and methodology. I hold a BA in Art and Design and a Masters in Communication Design from the University of Alberta, Canada, and a PhD in Designwissenschaft from the University of Arts Braunschweig in Germany. In my research, I investigate the fundamentals of design. Based on this knowledge, I develop methods and tools aiming at advancing design practice and education. I have been developing an approach ‘case transfer’ and a method ‘rip+mix’ for dealing with highly undetermined design situations. Besides, with Prof. W. Jonas, I have also developed a design process tool called MAPS. Furthermore, I also contribute regularly to the discourse on design research, particularly research through design.