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).
Stephanie Neumann, born in Berlin Volkspark Friedrichshain, grew up as an urban native. After her apprenticeship as photographer and her studies in Digital Media (Dipl.-Inf., FH) she worked as a concept developer at agencies in Berlin, Frankfurt/Main and New York.
She furthermore worked as a lecturer and research scientist at Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences. As a Master student Stephanie studied at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in the field of Human-Computer-Interaction and at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences in the field of Interface Design. With her thesis »Fummel da jetzt nicht rum!« she completed her Master’s degree (M.A.).
In February 2013, Stephanie joined the Design Research Lab as a research scientist and PhD-Candidate at the Berlin University of the Arts. She is part of the Blended Prototyping project.