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"Shrink it and pink it" is the common formula for taking gender into account in the development of innovations. Under the guidance of Dr. Clemens Striebing and Dr. Regina Sipos, students in this block seminar, which has been offered since 2018, examine the extent to which gender stereotypes are reproduced in research and development processes in engineering and technology and what this means for the end products of these processes.
The students will be introduced to the approaches of critical engineering and critical making. Based on these approaches, they will explore in their own group work the question of how design and engineering can make a critical and reflective contribution to overcoming gender bias in engineering and technology. In a mini-hackathon, the ideas developed will be physically prototyped and tested with the help of experts from the Berlin making scene and the Technology Foundation Berlin. For this purpose, modern rapid prototyping technologies such as 3D printing, CNC milling, microcontrollers, sensors, as well as simple IoT devices will be used.
The current dates of the block seminar are listed at: https://www.cerri.iao.fraunhofer.de/de/projekte/blockseminar_tuberlin.html.
