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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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Nicole Kengyel
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Nicole Kengyel was working as a Programmer and User Interface Designer before she started her studies in Design at the Köln International School of Design. After two years in Cologne and another in Paris she finished her Bachelor’s in 2008.
During her studies she mainly focused on Service Design concepts aiming at the improvement of human relationships.
At the Design Research Lab she is responsible for the follow-up project of “Woman’s Phone,” called “G – gender inspired technology.” She evaluates and visualizes user-generated content of “cultural probes” and “prototypes.”