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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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Paul Kolling
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Paul Kolling is an artist and designer currently living in Berlin. Coming from a background in traditional craftsmanship, he studied visual communication at the Berlin University of the Arts and graduated in 2017 from the new media class of Prof. Joachim Sauter and Jussi Ängeslevä.
He works at the intersection of design studies, new media and art-research, and strives to explore new infrastructural technologies and economic processes. The core of this discussion is the understanding of current state of affairs, structures and developments as a global system of complex interdependencies.