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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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Riccardo Pascotto
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Riccardo Pascotto was born in 1970 in Berlin, Germany, where he received his diploma in Technical Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences. Later, he joined TEKO Ingenieurbüro as an engineer for consultation and support in the field of telecommunications. Since 1998, he has been Project Manager in the department of European and International Projects at Deutsche Telekom Berkom/T-Nova Berkom.
Riccardo has over 10 years experience in the managing of EU framework research and development projects: FP4/TAP & ACTS: CHIN (Deputy Coordinator) and WISE; ACTS AMASE (Project Coordinator); FP5/ IST: Youngster (Project Coordinator). Recently, he was coordinating the IP Daidalos I/II project, which was designing a beyond 3G network and service architecture.
He is currently Senior Project Manager at Telekom Innovation Laboratories in the Finance and Support department, where he is responsible for a number of the project management and coordination activities in the areas of intelligent access/seamless communication. He also carries out these activities in the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Framework and in the Design Research Lab (DRL).
At the Design Research Lab, he was responsible for the project management of the projects “G – gender inspired technology” and “StreetLab.”