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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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Zhijin is a UI/UX designer and photographer from China. She studied product design for her bachelor’s degree in China and is currently pursuing a BA in Interface Design at Fachhochschule Potsdam. She believes that contemporary designers should not only master various design methods and theoretical knowledge, which enable them to efficiently tackle complex design problems, but also become more aware that design serves to help society and take responsibility for others.
She is dedicated to becoming an interaction designer with a strong sense of social responsibility and a focus on social justice.