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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Happy 2024! We have uploaded the videos of the TH/NGS 2023 conference to our YouTube channel. And find the pictures in a Flickr album. We are looking back at a great edition of ThingsCon and hope you had a good time – if you were there. Thanks for participating! Check out these lovely talks and […]
14th/15th December – Save the date: ThingsCon 2023 Conference: Unintended Consequences In keeping with tradition, we are busy organising the 2023 ThingsCon conference again in December. As we adapt to new event practicalities since the pandemic disruptions, we were particularly charmed by the format we created for our Summer edition last year, so we will […]
On 6 September ThingsCon, we will team up with the Human Values for Smarter Cities project to organise a Salon on Doing Ethics at VONK Rotterdam. With two great speakers that bring ethics daily in practice, short pitches by researchers from the project, and an insightful workshop on designing rules into policy. Workshop 16:00-18:00, evening lectures and […]
We are happy to announce a new ThingsCon Salon! We will keep updating this page with the latest on the program. ThingsCon Salon: Listening Things SmartHome Interoperability, Inference and Impact Discussions on IoT and AI; Ethics, Privacy and Trust An STRP Festival partner event #STRP #ThingsCon #iot #AI #Ethics #Privacy #Trust #SmartHome #Matter Date: 14th […]
You might wonder what we have been up to in the last few months. In earlier years, we would have announced the date for our end-of-year conference. But as you know, we moved our conference to last June to prevent Covid impact. After discussing with the ThingsCon core team, we all agreed it would be […]