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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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Ulrike Gollner
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Ulrike Gollner is a User Experience Designer and researcher with a background in computer science and media arts. She explores the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) from a fundamentally human-centered perspective. Her practice involves the design and development of hardware and software prototypes across disciplinary fields ranging from design for aging societies, disability-inspired interaction design, embodied interaction, hybrid publishing and the future of learning.
Her current work at the Design Research Lab investigates the impact of skin-based interaction in health care environments. She is also a research associate at the Hybrid Publishing Lab of the Leuphana University Lüneburg, where she focuses on emerging scholarly practices in today’s paradigm of ‘open everything’.