reflections

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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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07
Jul

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,
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10
Jun
New relations in generative things

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
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10
May

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
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08
Apr

March reflections and updates

Every week, I post a newsletter via Target_is_New signaling notions from the news and elaborate on one topic
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