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The weekly reflections on the news in human-AI-thing co-performances are brought to life via a story from the future of living with agentic things in the city. This month, we go inside the home. A Day with NutriSphere: The Ambient Kitchen 6:30 AM: Maya's
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The weekly reflections on the news in human-AI co-performances are brought to life via a story from the future of living with agentic things in the city. Morning, with headlines Maya scrolls the morning headlines with her thumb, the screen casting a cool light across the kitchen table.
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On 17 July, Cities of Things was invited by Catch A Fire Agency to organise, design, and moderate a speculative design workshop for one of their clients on the topic of Agentic AI and its relation to the addiction to immediacy. The workshop was part of a full-day program
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Since this year I update the Substack Cities of Things with a short speculative design exercise. In good current habit, in a back-to-back composing with Claude (via Lex.page): I bring in my thoughts, I create an object concept and Claude is creating a little day-in-the-
Mediaaandacht
Hoe werk je in samenwerking creatief aan systeemverandering? En hoe kun je de kennis die daaruit voortkomt delen, verdiepen en opschalen? In deze publicatie delen ontwerpers en creatieve bureaus uit ons netwerk hun kennisproducten: kaartensets, spellen en prototypes die zijn ontstaan in de ontwerppraktijk in transitiecontexten. Rijk aan praktijkverhalen, methodes
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How do you collaboratively and creatively work towards systems change? And how can you share, deepen and scale the knowledge that emerges from this? In this publication, designers and creative agencies from our network share their knowledge products: card sets, games and prototypes that emerged from design practice in transition
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Op 9 mei was de wijkbot opnieuw bij Maker Faire Delft, dit keer als gast bij Stadslab Rotterdam. Naast een WijkbotKit werd de basis ook gebruikt voor een eerste demo-versie van een Labkar; een manier om met makerspaces de wijk in te gaan. Op 9 mei werd een nieuwe
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On 9 May, the Wijkbot was once again at Maker Faire Delft, this time as a guest at Stadslab Rotterdam. In addition to a WijkbotKit, the platform was used for a first demo version of a Lab Cart — a way to bring makerspaces into the neighbourhood. A new Maker Faire
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Next to our newsletter, organizing knowledge sharing, and commissioning of research projects, we have developed over the last years two specific activities to help understand, and formulate insights and opinions on our future co-living with agentic physical AI in our neighborhoods and cities. Futuring and Civic Prototyping Two types
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Let me share some updates from the last quarter at Cities of Things. Newsletters We started a fresh format for the Monthly newsletter, applying speculative design techniques to build a story on the near future living with agentic things in the city. The recipe is: * The weekly reflections of my
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De Wijkbot is opgenomen in het Handboek Publiekwijs. Het boek is het resultaat van experimenteel innovatief onderzoek bij het Incubatorprogramma van het Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek. Voor Nederlandse mediaredacties, en in het bijzonder lokale private media, geldt door onder andere het sterk veranderend mediagebruik dat het belangrijk is om steeds
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The Wijkbot has been included in the Publiekwijs Handbook. The book is the result of experimental innovative research within the Incubator programme of the Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek (Dutch Journalism Fund). For Dutch media newsrooms — and local private media in particular — reconnecting with the lived experience of their audience is