Gesche Joost is professor of design research at the Berlin University of the Arts and heads the Design Research Lab.

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Together with international partners, she develops research and teaching projects on topics relating to digital society, including wearable computing and social-digital participation. She is chairwoman of the German Society for Design Theory and Research and a board member of the German National Academic Foundation. From 2014 to 2018 she was the Federal Government's Internet Ambassador for the European Commission. She has been a member of the SAP Supervisory Board since 2015.