Conference workshop
Op 10 oktober organiseerden we een workshop bij het Society 5.0 Festival in The Social Hub Amsterdam. In deze korte workshop hebben we een nieuw format voor de workshop toegepast. At the Society 5.0 festival, Smit will host a workshop titled Transforming the Neighborhood Fabric with Hoodbots, where
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On 10 October we organised a workshop at the Society 5.0 Festival at The Social Hub Amsterdam, applying a new workshop format. At the festival, Smit hosted a workshop titled Transforming the Neighborhood Fabric with Hoodbots, exploring how technology can be designed to blend digital and physical realities in
Studentenproject
Op 26 juni presenteerden vier teams van studenten industrieel ontwerpen aan de TU Delft hun prototypes voor zogenaamde "Neighborhood Navigators". Het werk was onderdeel van het vak Interactive Technology Design waarin in een semester wordt ontworpen en prototypes gemaakt van mogelijke toekomst van interactieve technologie in de samenleving.
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On 26 June, four teams of industrial design students at TU Delft presented their prototypes for so-called Neighborhood Navigators as part of the course Interactive Technology Design. Cities of Things was a partner in the course, inviting students to think about what it would mean if robots became a
Conference workshop
Op 6 & 7 juni de PublicSpaces conferentie vond plaats in Amsterdam. Wijkbot was uitgenodigd een workshop te doen om de rol van robots in de stad tastbaar te maken. Met speciale aandacht voor het thema "Taking back the Internet". Twee teams ontwikkelde sociaal gedreven robots in de
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On 6 & 7 June, the PublicSpaces conference took place in Amsterdam. Wijkbot was invited to run a workshop making the role of robots in the city tangible, with special attention to public values. We opened with a short presentation about the project background and offered scenarios showing ways the
reflections
On 4 June 2024, I gave a talk at an evening on “Designing Intelligent Cultures with Data and AI”, organized by design agency CLEVER°FRANKE from Utrecht (check also their recap). I decided to share my developing thoughts on the emergence of Generative Things, a new breed of things that
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On 6 June Cities of Things will be hosting a Wijkbot workshop at the PublicSpaces conference. On 6 and 7 June, PublicSpaces and Waag Futurelab will organise the fourth edition of the PublicSpaces conference with the theme 'Taking Back the Internet'. The two-day programme will take place
Studentenproject
Een team van IPO studenten (Industrieel Product Ontwerpen) van de Hogeschool Rotterdam heeft in het 23 semester 2023/2024 een modulaire versie gemaakt voor de WijkbotKit. Een combinatie van plaatmateriaal en koppelstukken maken het mogelijk snel een volume te maken met veel vrijheid. De WijkbotKit modulair is speciaal bedoeld voor
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A team of IPO (Industrial Product Design) students from Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences created a modular version of the WijkbotKit in semester 23 of the 2023/2024 academic year. A combination of sheet materials and connectors makes it possible to quickly create a volume with great freedom. The modular
reflections
Following the method of last Month, I again asked the AI-intern (ChatGPT-4) to reflect on the different weekly thoughts at Target is New, through the lense of the Cities of Things Manifesto. I continued the conversation a bit with my own feelings about last Month, as an important
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Today -19 April 2024- four teams of students from the master program Industrial Design Engineering faculty of Delft University of Technology will present their first ideas and explorations of the relation of so-called neighborhood navigators for future citizenship as part of the Smart and Social Fest in Rotterdam. The