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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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Kathrin Vent
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Kathrin Vent joined the T-Labs in November 2008, where she works as an interactions designer on the Web site “designresearchnetwork.”
She studied Product Design with a focus on system design at the University of Kassel and at the Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny de València in Spain. Her final thesis dealt with communication and knowledge production in social networks.
Before that, she completed foundation studies in the social sciences at the University of Kassel, did a two-year apprenticeship as a “Host of Communication,” and gained overseas professional experience as an au pair in London for a year.