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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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Katharina Bellinger
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Katharina studied product design at the University of Arts Berlin where she completed her B.A. in 2018, prior to which she had worked for four years as a packaging designer. She is interested in creating great experiences, whether physical, digital or in between. With a more tangible playful approach, she considers participatory design and prototyping as an important part of her design process. Currently, she is studying at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin within the masters program in product design with focus on interaction – designing for play, education and imagination, as well as working as a research assistant in the research group ‘Critical Maker Culture’ at the UdK Berlin / Weizenbaum Institute.