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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
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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
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Every week, I post a newsletter via Target_is_New signaling notions from the news and elaborate on one topic triggered by a news item or event I visited. As my frame of view is the City of Things beliefs, it makes a lot of sense to create a monthly
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Two teams from the IUXD (Interface & User Experience Design) course at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences designed concepts for the Wijkbot, with the Cool Zuid neighbourhood as their starting point. Both teams had already conducted field research in the neighbourhood. We gave students this brief: In this assignment, we
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Two student teams from the Next Level Engineering master programme at The Hague University of Applied Sciences presented their final projects on 25 January 2024 at Delft Campus, as part of the Design and Technology course. We distinguished two goals: one group focused on collecting leftover raw materials for the
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It was a celebration on 10 January: the Afrikaander Cooperative marks its tenth anniversary, and the new Grondstoffenstation is officially opened by alderman Vincent Karremans. The Cooperative was a key partner throughout the Cities of Things LAB010 project. Throughout the day there were festivities at the Gemaal. As part of
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The Wijkbots were well represented at TH/NGS 2023, the annual conference on the connected world and responsible design organised by ThingsCon — with a workshop on 15 December and a broader programme on the 16th. The theme of TH/NGS 2023 was Un/intended consequences: what is the impact of
field lab Cities of Things Lab010
At the beginning of 2022, we officially kicked off the project Cities of Things LAB010, shaped together with Creating010 of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and with main partners Afrikaander Wijkcooperatie and Studio voor de Stad (represented by Zeewaardig). To close the two-year project, we will be part of
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During Dutch Design Week, on Thursday 26 October, the Wijkbot was the subject of a presentation, a workshop and a working session — a great opportunity to share experiences and make new contacts. First, Tomasz Jaskiewicz gave a presentation at DRIVE about Digital Society, discussing the experiences and deployment of Wijkbot
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On 5 October, Wijkbot visited Hamburg at the invitation of the festival CityClimate meets CreativeCoding. We ran a workshop using the Wijkbots for Climate Change Awareness, with three teams building a Wijkbot focused on climate topics. It was an inspiring session with excellent and creative participants who, in the three-
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On 5 October, we will be at the conference and festival in Hamburg CityClimate meets CreativeCoding to host a workshop with the Wijkbot. "Autonomous urban robots are starting to appear in European cities, with delivery-, scanning-, cleaning-, advertising-, security-, or waiter- robots being just some examples. The current development