You’re invited to join our inspiration dinner, preceding the 11th edition of TH/NGS.
We’re delighted to partner with CLICKNL to invite a select group of guests to join our speakers, workshop moderators, and exhibitors for an exclusive evening of inspiration and connection.
Our goal is to spark meaningful conversations around this year’s theme: RESIZE < REMIX < REGEN, with a particular focus on its relevance to current and emerging applications in design and research.
This year at TH/NGS 2025, we invite makers, designers, and thinkers to reimagine the creation of things through deliberate restraint, mindful reuse, and regenerative practice.
RESIZE; scale, enoughness, and slowing down
REMIX: mashups, play, and cultural hacking
REGEN: regeneration, about repair, nature, healing systems
The Evening
Join practitioners from design, technology, policy, and academia for good food and lively conversation at the beautiful Commandant’s Woning in Amsterdam’s former Navy Yard.
Pieter and Iskander will welcome you and open the evening with reflections on Resize < Remix < Regen.
Throughout the dinner, TH/NGS 2025 speakers Ling Tan, Martijn de Waal, and Matt Jones will offer thought-provoking insights before each course, reflecting on the theme through the lens of their own projects—the choices made, the process, and the impact.
Expect no slides, provocative positions, engaging conversation, and excellent food. Come ready for an inspiring evening together.
Let’s UNPLUG > UNWIND > UNFOLD
Location:
Commandantswoning, Marineterrein Amsterdam
Schedule:
17:00 – Doors open for mingling and connections
18:00 – Four-course dinner with stories and conversation
21:00 – Closing words (stay as long as you like)
Speakers:
Martijn de Waal is a Lector (professor) leading the research group of Civic Interaction Design. He has a background in journalism, media studies and practical philosophy, and is now exploring the connection between these disciplines and the field of design. His research focus is on the relation between digital media and public space, with a specific interest in civic media and digital placemaking.
Ling Tan is a designer, artist and creative technologist focused on social engagement, urban data science and environmental politics. Trained as an architect, she has worked with diverse communities worldwide on a range of participatory and technological initiatives to address pressing urban issues, including the climate crisis, public safety, air quality, and gender and racial equity.
Matt Jones has been designing digital products and services since 1995. He’s currently Head of Design for AI at Miro. From 2022-2024, he was Head of Design at Lunar Energy, building products to deliver home electrification at scale. From 2013-2021, he worked at Google as a Principal Designer, primarily in Google Research working on advanced AI concepts for hardware and software. From 2009-2013 he was a principal at BERG, a design and invention company in London that had projects exhibited in MoMA, and products featured in FT, FastCompany, Wired and Marvel comics. He originally studied Architecture, has written on interaction design (amongst other things) for 25 years at http://www.petafloptimism.com, and has taught design at the RCA, Goldsmiths, SVA, and AHO.
Want to join?
If you’d like to join, you can express your interest in attending. Please complete this short form by December 4th.
