Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost
About
Gesche Joost is Professor of Design Research at the UdK Berlin and heads the Design Research Lab. With international partners, she develops research and teaching projects on issues in a digital society, including wearable computing and social-digital participation.
In 2006 she was one of the "100 Faces of Tomorrow" in the German government initiative "Germany – Land of Ideas"; in 2009 she received the Young Scientists Award from the governing mayor of Berlin. She is chair-woman of the German Association for Design Theory and Research (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung e.V. .) and a member of the executive board of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).
From 2014 to 2018, she was the Internet Ambassador of the Federal Government to the European Commission and has been a member of the Supervisory Board at SAP since 2015. She is a member of the EKD and the Goethe Institute.
Since 2016, she has been a founding member of Calliope gGmbH, which aims to pro-vide digital education to German children starting in the third grade using the Calliope minicomputer.
Positions
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Principal Investigator (PI) since 15 September 2022, Research Group: Design, Diversität and New Commons
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Principal Investigator (PI) until 14 September 2022, Research Groups: Critical Maker Culture and Inequality and digital sovereignty
Contact
Fields of Research
Gesche Joost conducts research:
- Designforschung
- Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion
- Gender und Diversity in der Technologie-Entwicklung
- Soziale Nachhaltigkeit
- Gesellschaftliche Partizipation
More Projects
Selection
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2016-2018: Modellprojekt NRW – Bürger vernetzen Nachbarschaften (MBWSV NRW)
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2016: Mit-Mach-Brandis – Bürgerbeteiligung von Übermorgen (SMI)
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2015-2018: DAAN – Design Adaptiver Ambienter Notifikationsumgebungen (BMBF)
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2015-2018: Innovationscluster BeMobil: Entwicklung assistiver Technologien AAL (BMBF)
Committees and functions
- Professor at the Berlin University of the Arts
Memberships, committees and functions
- Member Board. Einstein Center Digital Future
- Scientific Director Interactive Textiles. German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
- Supervisory Board. ING
- Supervisory Board. Ottobock
- Supervisory Board. SAP
- Member Board. German National Academic Foundation
- Member. Goethe Institut
- Member. Future Council Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Selection committee "AI in Higher Education". Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt
- Member Board. German Society for Design Theory and Research (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung e. V.)
- Selection committee "Invite - Digital Continuing Education". Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt
- Member Board of Trustees. Telekom Foundation
Publications
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