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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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Paula Kassenaar
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Paula Kassenaar is a master student Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology. She also did her bachelor degree in Eindhoven. For the past year she has focussed on combining textiles and electronics in interactive products. For over two years she has designed and built various pieces of interactive furniture such as her bachelor graduation project Jakob; an interactive sofa that lets you record sound messages in a playful way.
Paula joined the laboratories in May 2010. She is an intern for three months with Katharina Bredies, working on unconventional interfaces in textile.