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 […]
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Send in your RIOT idea
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 […]
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How to become a Generative Things designer
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. […]
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Salon at Dutch Design Week
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 […]
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THINGS 2024 – Call for proposals
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 […]
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Salon Participatory ML
On 5 September, ThingsCon will team up again with the Human Values for Smarter Cities project to organize a Salon linked to the research project. This time, we are guests at Marineterrein in Amsterdam. We focus this meetup (and workshop) on participatory design for machine learning. Don Quichot in the Smart City?In this ThingsCon Salon, we will […]
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Relive TH/NGS 2023
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 […]
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Save the date: 2024 annual conference
In 2024, we will celebrate 10 years of ThingsCon with our annual event in December. We will start planning soon but you can save this date: 12 & 13 December 2024. Andrea and Iskander announced this at the end of another inspiring edition 15 December 2023. ThingsCon started in Berlin in 2014 in springtime 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 […]