Exhibition “Generative Things”

Create your vision of the future of generative things and contribute with a “provotype” in our exhibition.

Check the entries via our dedicated website:
https://thingscon.notion.site/exhibition-generative-things

A special program part of this 10th edition is an exhibition we commission as ThingsCon team. In short, we invited in an open call all designers to visualize generative things as prototypes that can be exhibited during TH/NGS 2024, and at two other places in 2025. The design briefs were based on envisioned futures and critiques by former ThingsCon speakers.

In bullets:

  • We invited future thinkers who have spoken at our conference in the last 10 years to reflect on our theme, “Generative Things,” and ideally describe a situational context for future generative things.
  • These reflections will be translated into design briefs
  • During a dedicated ThingsCon Salon during Dutch Design Week on 23 October, we presented the theme and the briefings to all interested designers.
  • 14 designers were invited to detail their concept in a mock-up that can be exhibited on 13 December 2024.
  • Ideas that were not selected will be part of an online exhibition.

The open call for designers

Plans for 2025

  • We will organize a ThingsCon Salon and exhibition together with Master Digital Design at the end of March
  • The exhibition will be part of the Toekomstdag at Waag 14 June.
  • More information follows soon

The exhibition is supported by Amsterdam750