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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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Joshua Marr
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Joshua Marr was born in 1982 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He completed an apprenticeship as Digital Media Designer in Dresden and worked for two years in an advertising agency before beginning his studies at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in 2007. His main focuses are graphic design and typography.
He joined the Design Research Lab in 2009 to conceptualize and layout the publication of Questions, Hypotheses & Conjectures, a book following the conference Questions & Hypotheses in 2008 in Berlin. Furthermore, he supports the team in the production of print materials and video editing.