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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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Ursula Wagner
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Ursula studied Textile & Surface Design at Weissensee Academy of Art Berlin and Hiroshima City University in Japan. In 2012 she was selected for the European Textiles Trainee Programme of the Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg, the Netherlands, where she developed her graduation project.
Her interests include textile history and material science, the incorporation of textile-related practices from various cultural backgrounds and the fusion of ancient techniques with physical computing.
From 2013-2014 she was part of the project UHCI-Universal Home Control Interfaces focussing on Electronic and Smart Textiles in the domestic environment, before leaving Design Research Lab in October 2014.