The DesignLab Research Fellowship consists of researchers based at various faculties of the University of Twente, that value creativity and transdisciplinarity. They share DesignLab’s vision and want to use it as a platform for researching, teaching and learning. Together, the DesignLab Research Fellows work towards exploring, understanding, or solving societal challenges - often within the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
PRIVILEGISATION AND URBAN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES
In critically thinking about the responsible design of urban digital infrastructures (UDIs), we frequently debate how such infrastructures perpetuate or increase existing social inequalities and further social, economic or political marginalisation. Highlighting and countering marginalisation is exceptionally important. However, focussing only on marginalization processes may miss a linked, yet distinct, set of processes that Dr. F. Meissner and her colleagues at ITC refer to as privilegisation.
About the DesignLab research fellow fund
The seed fund was established in 2021 with an aim of supporting DesignLab Research Fellows in the development of new research ideas and initiatives. Projects that come into consideration encompass all kind of ideas and initiatives that have a link with the focus areas of DesignLab: Responsible Design, Citizen Science, Transdisciplinary Working and Responsible Futuring, to create societal impact. The thread running across all nine funded projects was the ability to translate ideas into activities, studies or proposals that work towards exploring and connecting science, technology with societal challenges. Learn more about these innovative projects, the DesignLab research fellows and their collaborators on https://www.utwente.nl/en/designlab/community/research-fellows/.
