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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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Nikita Jerschov
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Born and raised in Berlin. After studying physics at ‘Freie Universität Berlin’ he now studies communication and interface design at the University of Applied Science in Potsdam. While studying he works in the field of interface design and user experience for agencies and start-ups. His main focus is the combination of research and design and the approach of improving user experience in all fields of technic.
After participating at the student-challenge at TEI conference in munich in 2014 he joined the Design Research Lab for logistic and general support.