ThingsCon
📆 29 October 2025📍 Infopunt Scheveningen Strandweg 156 (naast de ingang van de Pier)🎟️ Workshop for max 30 people, RSVP here When you interact with the municipality, you often first encounter a digital tool: a website, a menu system, an algorithm, or a parking scan car. There are important reasons behind such digital systems: they’re […]
📆 12 December 2025📍 CRCL PARK, AMS Institute, Marineterrein Amsterdam Resize, Remix, Regen TH/NGS 2025 explores makers’ evolving relationship with digital intelligence as material rather than tool. Algorithms and AI are now embraced for their unique textures and potentials, creating a state of flow where makers intuitively “vibe” with these materials. This approach transforms invisible […]
On 14 June the Exhibition “Generative Things” will have it’s third edition. This time we are part of the Hyperlink festival in Waag Futurelab. Imagine a world where everyday objects are imbued with the power of generative AI. What possibilities and challenges would emerge? ThingsCon aims to explore this frontier by inviting designers to create […]
As AI and generative technologies reshape our relationship with physical objects, ThingsCon presents a new edition of the report RIOT 2025, themed Generative Things. The RIOT publication is the fifth edition of the report, which ThingsCon started in 2017 as the State of Responsible IOT. “The State of Responsible IoT is a collection of essays […]
To mark the new RIOT 2025 publication, we will organize an unconference on 6 June 2025 in Rotterdam. We invite the authors to have a moment to officially launch the RIOT 2025, and reflect on the theme of generative things through the lens of the topics raised by the authors, and beyond, in unconference style. […]
Imagine a world where everyday objects are imbued with the power of generative AI. What possibilities and challenges would emerge? ThingsCon aims to explore this frontier by inviting designers to create provotypes of the near future “generative things”. The exhibition “Generative Things” premiered at TH/NGS 2024, on 13 December 2024 in Volkshotel Amsterdam, and will travel […]
Last conference we announced our plans for a new edition of our RIOT publication, The State of Responsible IoT 2025, and positioned the conference as a launchpad for publication. We started this publication in 2017 , delivering four impactful editions in subsequent years. After some years of with the ThingsCon turning 10, we are rebooting […]
ThingsCon Salon Parallel at TH/NGS 2024, we organize a dedicated salon to discuss the impact of possible developments towards Generative Things for the daily practice of designers of things. In this special Salon, we invite experts from connected things to AI scholars and design professionals to reflect on the impact on design methods and practice. […]
Designing the unknown unknowns of new relations with generative things As the theme for 2024 ThingsCon is exploring Generative Things, what will be the impact of extending our digital lives with generative AI on the physical things we live with? How can we design new relations with things with agency? Interactive session based on reflections […]
As you know we organise our 10 year celebrating edition of the yearly Things conference at 12 & 13 December in Volkshotel Amsterdam. We can share already some first glances into the program: 🎤 Talks by Matt Webb, Iohanna Nicenboim, Manon den Dunnen, Simone Rebaudengo📌 Short pitches on ideas and projects exhibited 🧬 More-than-human Design with/for […]