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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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Marie Dietze
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As a research associate at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Marie Dietze researches issues of accessibility, creative and socio-cultural potential of open source technologies. Her particular emphasis lies on self-sovereign bodies in the context of sexual health.
Marie Dietze graduated the master’s program at the Interface Design department of University of Applied Sciences Potsdam with her thesis: ‘Assembling Fragments – Exploring Feminist Modes of Hacking Through Design’.
Before, she completed her bachelor’s degree from Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) in industrial design with focus on product- and process design and expanded her studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in the field of industrial design in Jerusalem. Her main focus laid on iterative prototype development and on the intertwining of digital and cultural processes by means of critical reflection approaches.