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16
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 &
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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28
Jul

Agentic AI and the intensifying of immediacy relations

On 17 July, Cities of Things was invited by Catch A Fire Agency to organise, design, and moderate a speculative
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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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17
Jun
Wijkbot in the ESC Book

Wijkbot in the ESC Book

How do you collaboratively and creatively work towards systems change? And how can you share, deepen and scale the knowledge
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11
May
Wijkbot at Maker Faire Delft

Wijkbot at Maker Faire Delft

On 9 May, the Wijkbot was once again at Maker Faire Delft, this time as a guest at Stadslab Rotterdam.
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28
Apr

Check out the new activities page

Next to our newsletter, organizing knowledge sharing, and commissioning of research projects, we have developed over the last years two
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