Gesche Joost

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Gesche Joost (April 2017)

Gesche Joost (* 1974 in Kiel ) is a German design researcher . She has been a professor of design research at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2011 and was appointed Internet ambassador (digital champion) of the Federal Republic of Germany from March 2014 to June 2018 as part of the European Commission's Single Digital Market initiative .

Life

Gesche Joost comes from a typesetter family. After high school in 1994 at the Gymnasium Kronshagen and a Diploma in Design , 2001 at the Cologne International School of Design (KISD), she studied rhetoric at the University of Tübingen and received his doctorate in 2007 there via the Broad film rhetoric at Gert Ueding to Dr. phil.

Since 2005 she has headed the Design Research Lab at Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs). In the 2007/2008 winter semester, she held a visiting professorship at the University of Applied Sciences Hildesheim on the subject of gender & design and from 2008 to the end of 2010 she held a junior professorship at the TU Berlin for Interaction Design & Media , which was sponsored by Deutsche Telekom . Your research topics include human-computer interaction ( human-machine interaction ) aspects of gender and diversity in communication technology, community building , wearable computing and social sustainability and fundamentals of design theory and research. She heads several research projects at T-Labs, such as tactile human computer interaction or gender aspects in the technology industry, for example in the design of cell phones.

The project of her in 50+ helped develop DECT -telephone Sinus A 201 received the 2010 iF product design award . Since 2011 she has been Professor of Design Research at the Berlin University of the Arts. The professorship was also donated by Deutsche Telekom.

In 2002 Joost was a founding board member and since 2008 she has been chairwoman of the German Society for Design Theory and Research e. V. From 2013 to 2018 she was a member of the board of the Technologiestiftung Berlin and since 2015 she has been a member of the board of the German National Academic Foundation . In 2006 she became a member of Peer Steinbrück's personal advisory group . In May 2013, the appointed SPD - candidate for chancellor her to his campaign team. Joost was considered the team's "network policy expert".

Joost was appointed Internet Ambassador for Germany in March 2014 in order to promote digital change. In June 2018 it was announced that she will not continue this activity.

From 2014 to 2018 she was a member of the Expert Council for Consumer Affairs , which advises the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection . In 2014 she was co-editor of the society magazine REVUE - Magazine for the Next Society .

In March 2015 she was appointed a member of the 12th Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany . At the annual general meeting of SAP SE on May 20, 2015, the chairman of the supervisory board, Hasso Plattner , proposed Joost as the successor to Hartmut Mehdorn , who had recently resigned from his supervisory board mandate for health reasons. For reasons of stock corporation law, however, her election to the Supervisory Board was possible at the 2016 Annual General Meeting at the earliest. In order to end the vacancy on the employer side of the Supervisory Board that resulted from Mehdorn's resignation as quickly as possible, SAP obtained the early appeal of Joost by a decision of the Mannheim Local Court in July 2015.

Since September 2017 she has been heading the Berlin location of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence . With effect from December 1, 2017, Joost was elected to the supervisory board of ING-DiBa AG .

Joost is a member of the SPD .

Political positions

Data retention

Joost assessed data retention as ambivalent. In May 2013 she stated: "General data retention is critical - exceptions can only be made for the most serious crimes and according to the rule of law." She did not explain how such a crime-specific approach could look. Joost rejects the storage of movement profiles.

After the revelations by Edward Snowden became known , she distanced herself from data retention and subsequently rejected it.

privacy

In May 2013, Joost stated that large Internet companies such as Facebook and Google should be forced to handle data more sensitively. From their point of view, the big Internet companies are acting "irresponsibly when it comes to data protection". It should not be the case that, for example, privacy settings in social networks would change on their own without users being aware of it. In this context, she said: “That cannot be left to the market. Politicians must oblige corporations to handle private information with care. "

Big data

Joost warns against generalizing the use of big data and denying the chances of data analysis through a fear-driven debate. She advocates a differentiation of data between big data , open data and personal data and sees great social as well as economic potential in the use of big data and calls for a debate on the ethical limits of the use of big data.

Model of an inclusive digital society

In her research, Joost developed concepts for participation in a digital society, including a communication glove for deafblind people. She diagnoses an increasing digital divide in society and warns that many people - due to age, a lack of education or a lack of network connection - would lose touch with the digital age. Joost takes the position that marginalized groups should be more involved in technology development in order to take their needs into account and to create offers for an inclusive digital society. In her research work, she therefore deals with participatory formats such as living labs, in which local citizens can participate in development processes in their neighborhood.

Digital education from elementary school

Joost criticizes the fact that Germany could lose the connection in a European comparison, since pupils occupy the lower places in digital skills. It calls for digital knowledge to be imparted right from elementary school so that citizens learn the basics they need to be able to participate in the networked society as digitally sovereign members. At the same time, the shortage of IT specialists can be addressed, which can turn into a competitive disadvantage in Germany. That is why Joost has been the patron of the Code Week since 2014, in which children and young people are offered workshops on the topic of programming within Europe for one week in October. She has also been a member of the Start Coding advisory board since 2014.

In 2016, she founded Calliope gGmbH together with Jørn Alraun, Klaus Buss, Franka Futterlieb, Maxim Loick and Stephan Noller , with the aim of providing schoolchildren from the 3rd grade in Germany with the Calliope mini , a micro-controller, free of charge to equip. The project follows a strict open source policy, the board layout is open source and the teaching materials for teachers and students are available as Open Educational Resources (OER) . Teacher training courses are offered together with Open Roberta and other partners. In 2017 pilot projects started in Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Saxony. In 2016, Calliope received start-up funding of 200,000 euros from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.

criticism

In 2013, Wirtschaftswoche questioned Joost's independence in research and teaching due to her close relationship with Deutsche Telekom and cited objections from pirate politician Ralf Engelhardt and lawyer and Heise online legal advisor Jörg Heidrich.

In 2018, Spiegel and the ARD magazine Report Mainz reported on her voluntary work as part of her role as an internet ambassador, for which she was contractually guaranteed an expense allowance of 50,000 euros per year by the BMWi. The non-governmental organization Lobbycontrol complained that a gross amount of 4,500 euros per month was not compatible with an “honorary position”. In addition to the 4,500 euros, she received 119 euros a month for telephone and office supplies, 350 euros for her assistant and travel expenses. Joost was also appointed to the supervisory board of SAP after starting her job, although as a digital champion she is said to have contractually agreed not to take on any further consulting services for third parties that would impair the independent and impartial performance of her tasks.

Works and writings

  • Recommendation of the Council for Sustainable Development to the Federal Government: Sustainable_UND_digital: Sustainable Development as a Framework for Digital Change , 2018, https://www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/20181219_RNE_Empfoice_Digitalisierung.pdf
  • Gesche Joost: Trade unions - you abolish yourselves! in Cicero, July 2018, https://www.cicero.de/wirtschaft/gewerkschaften-ihr-schetzt-euch-ab/plus
  • Opinion of the German Advisory Council on Consumer Issues : Consumer- Friendly Scoring , 2018, ISSN 25100084 .
  • Opinion of the German Advisory Council on Consumer Issues : Digital Sovereignty , 2017, ISSN  2510-0084 .
  • Opinion of the German Advisory Council on Consumer Issues : Consumer Law 2.0 Consumers in the Digital World , 2016, ISSN  2510-0084 .
  • with T. Bieling and F. Sametinger: The social dimension of design. In: K.-S. Fuhs, D. Brocchi, M. Maxein, B. Draser (eds.): The history of sustainable design. VAS, Bad Homburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-88864-521-1 , pp. 218-229.
  • with M. Held and C. Mareis (eds.): Who designs the design? Practice, theory and history of participatory design, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2038-2 .
  • with A. Unteidig: Design and Social Change: The Changing Environment of a Discipline in Flux. In: Wolfgang Jonas, Sarah Zerwas, Kristof von Anshelm: Transformation Design. Perspectives on a New Design Attitude. Birkhäuser, Basel 2015, ISBN 978-3-0356-0636-2 , pp. 134–148.
  • Image language. The audio-visual rhetoric of the film . Transcript, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-923-7 .
  • Design as rhetoric . Birkhäuser, Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7643-8345-9 .
  • with K.Bredies, M. Christensen, F. Conradi, A.Unteidig: Design as Research - Positions, Arguments, Perspectives . Birkhäuser, Basel 2016, ISBN 3-0356-0919-5 .
  • with K.Kimpel, C. Mareis (Ed.): Designing - knowing - producing: Design research in the application context, transcript Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1463-3 .

honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gesche Joost is Germany's digital ambassador. In: BMWI . March 19, 2014, accessed March 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Digital Single Market - Digital Champions. In: EUCOM . January 18, 2016, accessed March 7, 2016 .
  3. ↑ The Times They Are a-Changin '- again . BDG panel discussion on April 15, 2015 in Berlin with G. Joost and E. Spiekermann. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ Interview with Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost , March 9, 2010.
  5. ↑ Steinbrück's competent mobile phone designer . In: Friday . May 19, 2013. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
  6. ^ Constanze von Bullion: Gesche Joost - Steinbrück's guide through the digital world. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 10, 2013, accessed December 5, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Annett Meiritz: Steinbrück's network expert becomes Merkel's internet ambassador. In: spiegel.de. March 18, 2014, accessed December 5, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Sven Becker: No longer "Digital Champion". In: spiegel.de. June 8, 2018, accessed June 13, 2018 .
  9. ^ Revue - Magazine for the next Society. ( Memento from July 10, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) at: revue-magazine.net
  10. ↑ Gröhe, Joost and Schwaetzer in the new EKD synod. In: evangelisch.de. March 30, 2015, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  11. ↑ For health reasons: Hartmut Mehdorn is leaving the SAP Supervisory Board. In: Spiegel Online. May 20, 2015, accessed May 20, 2015 .
  12. ↑ New site management at DFKI Berlin. In: dfki.de. September 13, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Prof. Dr. Gesche Joost becomes a member of the supervisory board of ING-DiBa AG. In: ing-diba.de. November 23, 2017. Retrieved January 29, 2018 .
  14. ↑ a b c Sven Becker, Astrid Ehrenhauser: How the government's internet ambassador gilds her honorary position Der Spiegel from January 27, 2018
  15. ↑ a b Veit Medick , Annett Meiritz: SPD campaigner Joost: Steinbrück's network expert wants a permanent place for women on talk shows. In: Spiegel Online . May 17, 2013, accessed May 17, 2013 .
  16. ↑ Gesche Joost, Thomas Oppermann: When in doubt for freedom. In: faz.net. July 19, 2013, accessed December 7, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Annett Meiritz, Marcel Rosenbach: Schlandnet ? Awful! In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 2014 ( online ).
  18. ↑ Gesche Joost: Control over my data. In: time online. June 28, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .
  19. ^ Debate without drama. In: Heise . November 12, 2014, accessed May 1, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Gesche Joost: Germany lacks the vision of a digital society. In: wiwo.de. January 27, 2015, accessed March 9, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Mobile Lorm Glove. In: Website Design Research Lab. Retrieved May 1, 2015 .
  22. ^ A b Rita Nikolow, Michael Pöppl: The digital society is there for everyone. In: Tagesspiegel. December 9, 2015, accessed March 10, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Gesche Joost: Primary school students should learn to program. In: TIME. January 2, 2015, accessed March 10, 2016 .
  24. ↑ Digital Ambassador: Gesche Joost. In: Deutsche Welle. October 27, 2015, accessed March 10, 2016 .
  25. ↑ Helmut Frangenberg: Kölner wants to prepare elementary school students for the digital world with mini computers. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger . January 27, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
  26. ↑ Patrick Beuth: Digital education must not fail because of cost barriers. In: time online. November 22, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Max Haerder, Oliver Voß: SPD Competence Team - How Independent is Gesche Joost? . In: Wirtschaftswoche . May 23, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
  28. ↑ Astrid Ehrenhauser, Heiner Hoffmann: How independent is the Federal Government's Internet Ambassador? Report Mainz from January 30, 2018
  29. ↑ German Advisory Council on Consumer Issues: Digital Sovereignty. In: www.svr-verbrauchfragen.de. June 2017, accessed April 4, 2018 .
  30. ↑ German Advisory Council on Consumer Issues: Consumer Law 2.0 Consumers in the digital world. (PDF) In: www.svr-verbübersetzungen.de December 2016, accessed April 4, 2018 .
  31. ↑ 100 for Germany. In: Neon. November 16, 2006.
  32. ↑ Honor for mixed doubles. In: TUB news portal. December 15, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Joost, Gesche
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German design researcher, professor for design research at the Berlin University of the Arts
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel