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Mar
Save the date: State of Cities of Things event 24 April

Save the date: State of Cities of Things event 24 April

Last November, it was 7 years after the launching paper was presented at NordiCHI, "Near future cities of things:
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09
Feb
Meet the Wijkbot!

Meet the Wijkbot!

Welcome! Whether you've encountered the Wijkbot in person or heard about it, read on for an introduction to
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08
Feb

Wijkbots in the wild at two events

This week, Wijkbot is present in different forms at two events, one in Amsterdam and one in Delft. ESConference, Amsterdam,
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08
Feb

Wijkbot at Makerfaire Eindhoven

At MakerDays 2025, the MakerFaire in Eindhoven, the Future Parade is a fixed part of the programme on 27 &
28
Jan

How AI Reflects on the Hoodbot, Civic Prototyping and Fifth Order Design

As a little experiment and a way to reflect on a part of the research from the last 7 years
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07
Jan
2026: The year social intelligence surfaces

2026: The year social intelligence surfaces

In my piece for RIOT 2025 (June 2025), I argued that generative and agentic AI push us into something qualitatively
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06
Jan
Systemic co-design with agentic engineers

Systemic co-design with agentic engineers

Weekly reflection on human-AI-things collaborations The shift isn’t from human coders to AI agents. It’s from coding to
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13
Nov

Annotating a future agentic thing from October news reflections

The weekly reflections on the news in human-AI-thing co-performances are brought to life via a story from the future of
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11
Sep

August Reflections: From Tools to Companions to Immersive Presences

The weekly reflections on the news in human-AI-thing co-performances are brought to life via a story from the future of
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08
Aug

July reflections: think with us: friction, agency, and the networked self

The weekly reflections on the news in human-AI co-performances are brought to life via a story from the future of
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