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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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Patricia Wagner
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Patricia has a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in fashion design at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She hails from Santiago de Chile, where she previously majored in advertising and graphic design. Shaped by her binational story, her work is methodical, bright, and full of color: South American flare meets German discipline. In fashion design, she focuses on two themes. The first is how sustainable and circular fashion production can be achieved through collaboration. The second is the digitalization of production processes and chains for a more transparent, fair, and accountable industry. She joined the Design Research Lab in 2021 and is involved in material interactions projects.