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.
What is an unconference?
In practice, an unconference means, we have only set out a rough structure of how the day will progress. This leaves space for the participants to prepare topics / short talks / ad-hoc sessions to organize on the day itself. Brace for semi-structured chaos, but let’s all keep trusting the process!
Articles and authors in the RIOT 2025
We are proud to have a great list of authors covering different perspectives on the theme. This is the list, in alphabetical order:
- Albrecht Kurze, Arne Berger, Andreas Bischof – Smart, simple, sincere – Why and how we should rethink connected things in our smart homes
- Eva van der Born, Anna Merl – Embracing More-Than-Human Perspectives in a Transforming World
- Heather Wiltse, Johan Redström – On finding our place in a world
- Iohanna Nicenboim – More-than-human-AI
- Iskander Smit – Ubiquitous immersive relations with generative things
- Joep Frens, Mathias Funk, Janet Huang – Distributed everything – a workshop on weird modularity
- Jonne van Belle, Pieter Duysburgh, Willemien Laenens – Find the blind spots in your use of generative AI
- Karola Köpferl, Albrecht Kurze – Machines, AI, and the Past//Future of Things
- Kars Alfrink – Embodied AI and Collective Power: Designing Democratic Generative Things
- Matthew Lee-Smith, Garrath T. Wilson, and the Poly Collective – Exploring Diverse Forms of “Generativeness” Through Flash Fictions
- Mike de Kreek, Tessa Steenkamp – Reclaiming the human dimension in automated urban enforcement services
- Ola Bonati – From Generative to Re-generative technologies: empowering creatives to adapt regenerative practices
- Omar Heuves – The effect of Things on our everyday rituals
- Sabine Reitmaier – (Un)making the future: Some Thoughts after Reading ‘The Importance of Speculation in Design Research’
- Tejaswini Nagesh, Francesco Sollitto, Marina Castán, Troy Nachtigall – From Glitches to Fixes Hacking Loopholes for Sustainable Innovation
- Zeynep Ugur – Urban Emergence through Data: promise or paradox?
Schedule
We have a schedule as a base structure to fill in. Together we build the program at the day, but you can already propose a session here:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/unconference-RIOT25
9:00 – We open the doors, you can already join us with a coffee (or tea) and croissants
10:00 – We kick off the unconference with a welcome and short introduction on the theme. Together, we prepare the program for the morning sessions
11:00 – start of the first round of sessions
13:00 – lunch break
14:00 – reflect on the morning, shape the afternoon program
15:00 – start of the afternoon sessions
17:00 – wrap up
Salon
17:30 – share results, have a drink, and some food
20:00 – rounding up the evening
Location
We are very happy to be hosted by the VONK Innovation Center of the City of Rotterdam.
Located in the heart of Rotterdam, just off Coolsingel in the Timmerhuis.
Halvemaanpassage 90, 3011 DL Rotterdam
Register
We are asking participants a contribution of 25 euro for organizing costs. You will receive a printed version of the RIOT 2025 report!
Students can join for free.
Registration is closed.
The Salon is Powered by CLICKNL. Please RSVP here if you only join the Salon.
Special guest
We are happy to have Erika–the AI-enabled typewriter as a signature generative thing available for experiencing.
Partners
