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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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Gameli Adzaho
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Gameli Adzaho is a Research Fellow of the Weizenbaum Institute with the ‘Production Possibilities of the Maker Culture’ group, at UdK Berlin, where he is exploring transformation and material sustainability through open science. He is focused on ‘shaping Africa and shaping young people’. He curates Global Lab Network, a community of STEM students and professionals interested in applying science and technology for social impact. He is also a Steering Committee Member of Africa Open Science & Hardware, a platform dedicated to enabling sustainable development on the continent through grassroots research & innovation. Gameli was educated at the University of Ghana (BSc Biochemistry) and the University of Exeter (MSc Environment and Human Health), where he was a Tullow Group Scholar. His work and research interests span education, technology, public health, and sustainability. He is fascinated by community science as a tool to tackle environmental health challenges. Gameli champions STEM education, from the grassroots to international networks and policy circles. He has received awards from the Shuttleworth Foundation, the British Council, Next Einstein Forum, and the Future Earth Network, among others. He is an Alumnus of the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard University.