Primary Job Title Professor for Design Research Primary Organization 
Universitat der Kunste Berlin
Location Berlin, Berlin, Germany Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Female
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Gesche Joost is a professor of design research at the Berlin University of the Arts and is head of the Design Research Lab. Together with international partners, she develops research and teaching projects on the topics of man-machine interaction, gender and diversity aspects in technology development as well as on social sustainability and social
participation. In 2006, she was honored as one of the "100 Heads of Tomorrow" within the framework of the initiative of the Federal Government "Germany - Land of Ideas", in 2009 she received the Young Scientist Prize from the Governing Mayor of Berlin.
She is chairman of the German Association for Design Theory and Research and a member of the Board of Technologiestiftung Berlin. In 2013, she was a member of the competence committee of the chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück within the framework of the election campaign. Since 2014 she has been nominated as a "digital champion" for the federal government in the Europaparlament.
