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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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Selenay Kiray
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Selenay Kiray is an artist and student currently exploring the relationship between forms of energy and their impact on machines with a questioning approach on the concept of machine autonomy and how different energy sources influence their behavior. She is pursuing her studies in Art and Media at Universitat der Künste Berlin (UDK) and holds a MA in Music, Sonic Arts from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and BA in International Relations from Istanbul Bilgi University. As an artist, she seeks to understand the intricate interplay between energy forms and machine behavior, offering unique insights into the non-human interactions in this fascinating realm. Additionally, she is student tutor for the Generative/Computational Art class of Prof. Dr Alberto de Campo.