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
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
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
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
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
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
June reflections on Cities of Agentic Things
Since this year I update the Substack Cities of Things with a short speculative design exercise. In good current habit,
New relations in generative things
On 4 June 2024, I gave a talk at an evening on “Designing Intelligent Cultures with Data and AI”, organized
April reflections and update
Following the method of last Month, I again asked the AI-intern (ChatGPT-4) to reflect on the different weekly thoughts at
March reflections and updates
Every week, I post a newsletter via Target_is_New signaling notions from the news and elaborate on one topic