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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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Lisa Hofmann
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Lisa is currently writing her bachelor thesis on activism within social media. She is researching the motivation behind sharing political posts, i.e. how political interest, image building and social pressure interact. She is studying communication in social and economic contexts at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Since June 2021 Lisa works in the research group “Inequality and Digital Sovereignty” at the Weizenbaum Institute.