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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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Elena Forschner
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Elena has joined the project OrthoSuper in September 2023. She is currently completing her MSc in clothing technology at HTW Berlin. Previously, she has gained professional work experience in the technology industry as a project manager producing educational online learning formats.
Holding a BA from Carl-von-Ossietzky-University, Elena has an academic background in material culture with a focus on textiles and sustainability, as well as art and media. She studied in South Korea on an ASEM-DUO fellowship, allowing her to experience various ways of thinking and learning.
Through her studies she was able to substantiate her curiosity for visual culture and design as carriers of values and knowledge. In her masters and her role at OrthoSuper she combines her theoretical and practical experience, allowing her to actively support and advance projects.